So I've had these coilovers for a little more than 6 months and thought I'd finnaly give my impressions.

ride:
Street: The overall ride is harsher than OE, but when the dampeners are set to full soft, it's really not that bad. On the freeway, there are times where the ride can become bouncy, but only with fairly bad freeways (which Seattle has plenty of )

AutoX; I usually have the front dampers set to near full hard, and the rears about 5 clicks from full hard. The car corners much better than stock, and the suspension travel/feel is very linear and predictive. I haven't had much time to play with dampening settings for AutoX, but I'm slowly picking up the differences...it's a lot of fun being able to feel how the car is handleing and then adjusting the dampening to dail out under/over steer.


dampening adjustability:
The dampeners are really easy to adjust, each **** setting is distinct. The front dampener adjustment ***** are right next to the strut bar, and the rears can be accessed by removing the 2 side plastic panels around the rear strut. (JIC supplies a long adjustment allen screw to reach the rears...I also drilled a small hole for each one through the metal rear strut to be able to adjust them quickly)


height adjustability:
The fronts are super easy to adjust, just take off the wheels, and loosen them, then adjust up/down. the rear adjustment is a bit harder b/c the springs are not around the shocks...so it requires you to unbolt part of the A arm to adjust the height. In all, it took me about 1.5 hrs the first time to adjust the height, and after that, it takes less then 1hr now.

Noise:
there's more overall noise, but that's to be expected with full coilovers. I don't think it's too bad.

here's a pic of the car:


Overall, I'm very happy with the purchase and am glad that I went with these.

-Peter

 

Forgot to add that I had these installed by World One Performance in Kent, Wa (near Seattle)...at the time all my tools where still in storage - they did a great job!

 

awesome... i just got my JIC's installed too.... but what did you do about the front brake lines? the JIC coilovers do not have a bolt or hooks to hold the brake lines in place? the only thing i got was this bracket thing, so i had to ziptie the brake line in place, which doesn't seem too safe. did the seller of my coilovers forget to send a piece?

 

thanks so much for the write up man, and good choice!

 

not sure about the bracket that you got, but my front coilovers have a connection spot for the brake lines...I know some of the other early coilovers made by various companies didn't have brackets either - IIRC ppl just zip-tied them to the shock. I'd think it'd be safe enough.

-Peter