Ride Comfort of Ridetech Coilovers

[MCB Matt]

Now its my understanding that by doing this, you're limiting suspension travel and messing up the pre-load on the spring, thus negatively affecting ride quality and performance. Is that the case? I'm trying to sort this stuff all out and decide between coil/shock and coilover. Sorry if i'm hijacking, but i think this is relevant to the conversation started by the OP.

You are not changing spring rate as you are just compressing or decompressing the shock portion. You are moving the coil position between the upper spring pocket and lower nut on shock body to the lower control arm....thus lowering or raising the car.

In a "true" ideal coilover system the upper coil mount is part of the shock itself. In that case you are still changing the compression of the shock only as the upper mount is fixed to the car and the lower still raises or lowers as you adjust them. This of course is assuming you know the rate that works for your setup or ask for help on spring rates...coil bind in a fixed rate spring is not good...then you start to get a crappy ride, bottom out, ect because the spring is too "soft" for the weight of the car.

Yes, anytime you lower other than with drop spindles you will loose travel. We don't recommend many drop spindles, really just ones that are designed in a system designed to work together...

Matt