Raceland Coilovers

21st February 2011, 18:42

Hi Guys, I'm looking at the best ways to lower my Saxo cheaply. I have looked into just getting some springs but I wanna go quite low like 60mm and I heard that it is not good to lower more than 40mm on standard shocks. So, I looked into coilovers and I dont want to pay alot, I have found some Raceland Coilovers on eBay which I am not expecting to be great but they will do the job? Has anyone had any expirience with them? Or know if they are any good?
Thanks alot
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RACELAND-LOWER...item19c341120a

21st February 2011, 18:50

scottyvtr recently put these on his Saxo, and there was no instructions what so ever on how to arrange these.

I will tell him about this thread and he can give his opinions on the coilovers.

What I will say is if you check the group buy on the Gaz coilovers for £300 is a superb buy

21st February 2011, 18:55

They will do the job and they are "great". I use them by myself for more than 5 months now and the handling is very nice for that price tag. My lowering is atm at 30mm, but 60mm is very easy to do. We have a lot of discussions here in germany about those coilovers, which are manufactured by Bilstein anyways, but with a more common quality.
There are many people driving them for more than 5 years and many thousand miles, nobody really complained about them. The suspension is stiff, but still comfortable. So if you don't have more cash to buy branded coilovers to fit your ego in the pub, go for the raceland ones, you don't regret it. Btw, many people use 4-2-1 raceland manifolds or air boxes on their VTRs, must have a reason to do so

21st February 2011, 18:56

Thanks mate! Yer my bros got the Gaz ones on his GTI, but im on budget.
I've heard Racelands are really bad but surely better then putting 60mm springs on standard shocks?
Thanks

21st February 2011, 18:59

Oh rite, well thats a suprise, sounds like your a sales man for raceland or something lol
Have you got racelands on your saxo?
Cheers for the advice ill have to weight up the options...
Thanks

21st February 2011, 19:12

There was a lot of head scratching on how they went together, but if you do buy them just open up a thread if you do have problems

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Originally Posted by JBrown92

Oh rite, well thats a suprise, sounds like your a sales man for raceland or something lol
Have you got racelands on your saxo?
Cheers for the advice ill have to weight up the options...
Thanks

Well this person has only joined and it wouldn't surprise me if it was their ebay shop ...

21st February 2011, 19:14

Nah i am not, i bought my VTS with them already fitted. I could make some pics, but its dark now, so you won't see a lot at all

Since you can buy them on ebay, use the "make offer" option und you can easy save up 10 pounds. Here in germany we pay around 160 euros, what equals to 145 pounds. You look for a bargain, so why spend twice as much cash, if you can have the same performance half way?
As i said, the discussions are always the same, buy brands, be happy, blah blah. You can only support parts that you own or brands your heard they are a must have, but if you talk about Raceland, you always hear they are bad, but you never experience they are.

21st February 2011, 19:20

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Originally Posted by FlightcranK_VTS

Nah i am not, i bought my VTS with them already fitted. I could make some pics, but its dark now, so you won't see a lot at all

Since you can buy them on ebay, use the "make offer" option und you can easy save up 10 pounds. Here in germany we pay around 160 euros, what equals to 145 pounds. You look for a bargain, so why spend twice as much cash, if you can have the same performance half way?
As i said, the discussions are always the same, buy brands, be happy, blah blah. You can only support parts that you own or brands your heard they are a must have, but if you talk about Raceland, you always hear they are bad, but you never experience they are.

This actually screams out to me as being an ebay seller now

21st February 2011, 19:32

Any reason why i should be an ebay seller? I can provide photos of my own Saxo using the coilovers, also the registration book where they are printed in. I am not offering him any address, nor give him any discout for coilovers, just a small tipp to save up more cash easily. But i see where this is going to, cause if i would use KW or H&R, all would be fine, noone would ever think about me selling those in any way. I have eperience on driving them for 5.000 miles in 5 months, snowy streets and bumpy autobahns. No damage, no performance loss, thats why i can support them for anyone to get a bargain.

21st February 2011, 20:47

raceland coilovers are sh*te! i fitted them to my vtr and took them straight off and put my apex shocks and springs back on

21st February 2011, 20:53

must admit not heard good things about them either some colapsing on extreme cases!

Bill.

21st February 2011, 20:56

search coilovers or raceland coilovers etc been covered literally 100's of times gets asked weekly, there a waste of money. Theres a thread somewhere that explains there problems. Shows how to modifiy them so there ok, but then all ur left with is the adjustable collar which is made of cheap alloy and can strip/cross thread easily. Might aswell just get a rallye design coilover conversion kit

21st February 2011, 20:57

here is my view on these the damper are too hard yet the springs are very soft.
within a couple of weeks they shattered my diff.
hope that helps making youre mind up .

21st February 2011, 21:04

i am always a believer of buy cheap buy twice!

Bill.

2nd March 2011, 14:57

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Originally Posted by boony

here is my view on these the damper are too hard yet the springs are very soft.
within a couple of weeks they shattered my diff.
hope that helps making youre mind up .

How did you manage that? I can't see the link between the coilies and your diff? Sorry if I am being thick here, just interested.

2nd March 2011, 15:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stevo123

How did you manage that? I can't see the link between the coilies and your diff? Sorry if I am being thick here, just interested.

probably excessive vibration in the shafts, rattling the diff to bits?

2nd March 2011, 17:16

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Originally Posted by BFannon

i am always a believer of buy cheap buy twice!

Bill.

Agreed

There is a reason other suspension manufacturers charge double the price for thier kit. Better quality products almost always cost more but last longer...as a general principle

Buying cheap stuff is a false economy

Buy a decent set and they will last

You think track cars use raceland suspensions? I would highly doubt it, they use better quality (and more expensive) products....and there is a reason for that

2nd March 2011, 18:43

i reckon there should be a sticky made why cheap coilovers are shite as to many people ask every other day about them

2nd March 2011, 20:44

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Originally Posted by SAXO8VYO

i reckon there should be a sticky made why cheap coilovers are shite as to many people ask every other day about them

Totally agree, ill make one up tonight! Gets asked evreyday pritty much

3rd March 2011, 23:11

i saw these on eBay... £159 for raceland coilovers and like £300 for gmaxx's... seems abit weird that theres such a huge price difference :/

4th March 2011, 10:14

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Originally Posted by chunkyblader

i saw these on eBay... £159 for raceland coilovers and like £300 for gmaxx's... seems abit weird that theres such a huge price difference :/

There is a reason........

4th March 2011, 10:36

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Originally Posted by devilsadvocate

There is a reason........

Which is what?

There exactly the same.

http://www.saxperience.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=161851

4th March 2011, 11:02

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Originally Posted by baker556

Which is what?

There exactly the same.

http://www.saxperience.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=161851

Teach me to skim read, thought I read Gaz
My bad

4th March 2011, 18:39

I had raceland on my 1st vts for a while crashy as fuck, handling was maybe a bit better than standard, however the car looked awesomely low.

I seriously couldn't stick the fact it felt like every bone in my body was breaking every time you hit a pot hole, that soon gets boring.