Tein Super Street Coilover Opinions?


Silver2000Hatch

Silver2000Hatch

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Hey ek9.org,

I have a 2000 ek and looking to buy coilovers. After getting good feedback from this site, and doing some more research I'm looking to buy Tein Super Street coilovers.

My budget is around $1,500 including the coilovers and camber kit. It's my daily driver so adjusting the damper and ride height is very important for me. I'm never planning to take it to the track. I'm looking to drop it about 2.2 inches in front and 2.0 in the back. So far my I've only added 10K HID lights.

So, here are a couple questions. Do the damper setting on the Tein SS make it a smooth ride? Does anyone have or rode in an ek with Tein SS installed, and please provide your opinion about how comfortable of a ride it is.

I live in the S.F. Bay Area and there are some crappy roads. I dropped my ef9 on Eibach springs and Tokico shocks and it's a rough ride especially hitting bumps on the freeway. Aftermarket suspension will never feel as comfortable as stock, but my main concern is being more comfortable in the ek than the ef9.

Thanks :))
 
Hi, with regards to the damper setting. I live in the Uk and some, if not most roads are really bad over here.

I believe I have it on the hardest setting and its quite a comfy to be honest, its a nice smooth ride. :))

You could possibly get the Tein mono-flex + pillow ball mounts for that price I think, have you thought of them?

Tein SS are good for the occasional track day, but mono-flex are pretty mch designed for tack use.
 
I have not tried them on a Civic, however yesterday I had a four hour drive an S15 Silvia fitted with them, and I have to say the ride was definately NOT smooth, even on the softest setting. They were set to the lowest setting, which could affect the hardness, but it is not a setup I would want on my bumpy local roads.

If you generally drive on good roads, then they will be fine and the ride quality will be tolerable for the ocassional trip down a bumpy road but if your local authority is as bad at road maintenance as the IOW then I would consider something better suited.

Not sure on the spring rates, but I could pretty much gurantee the Teins will be stiffer than the Eibachs!
 
Thanks for the input :dance:

I may purchase a set of Tein SS. Seems to be the best option I've found. Always nice to hear fellow member's opinions!

Other first-hand experiences would help out as well.

Thanks!
 
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Hey I got mint set Tein Flex's for that price less than 3000 miles & I'll through in a set of Skunk 2 Cambers's for $1500 I only live 1 & 20 mins away from the City pm me if interested!
 
I had used a set of tein s.s. on my ek4 2 years ago, and now im used spoon fixed bampers, which they are so much better than the teins. Also i had a leak on the one of near shock just after one year.
To be honest, the tein S.S are too soft for me, I think the hardest setting on the superstreet is softer than a standard ek9 shocks.
 
I had tein SS's for about a year and a half on my car.

Really good coilovers, They are comfortable for daily driving but also provide a good handling upgrade. The perfect middle ground between standard and all out track suspension IMO. The ride is really comofortable with them even if on the stiffest setting but when you chuck it into a corner they still hold up well, i took mine round the nurburgring and they were great!

All i would say is that they lack the fast response of more track based coilover, & they are quite soft spring rates so you get a bit of lean in the corners but overall they are good! ive gone for stiffer suspension set up now as its getting more track focussed as im going to buy a sensible car aswell so i can go nuts on mine :)

Overall as a mainly daily driven car, that wants adjustablility, improved handling but maintaining a comfortable ride id say tein SS are the way to go :)


Hope that helped, just my opinion!


also........ alot of people find they dont go "low enough"

Mine were plenty low enough for me..... and i had space left to go lower if i wanted, depends how low you want it i suppose...... this is my VTI with them on, with about 1" left to go down on the back and about half inch left on the front....

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i found that perfect for still be able to drive it hard and get over speedbumps etc
 
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NeilVtec said:
I had tein SS's for about a year and a half on my car.

Really good coilovers, They are comfortable for daily driving but also provide a good handling upgrade. The perfect middle ground between standard and all out track suspension IMO. The ride is really comofortable with them even if on the stiffest setting but when you chuck it into a corner they still hold up well, i took mine round the nurburgring and they were great!

All i would say is that they lack the fast response of more track based coilover, & they are quite soft spring rates so you get a bit of lean in the corners but overall they are good! ive gone for stiffer suspension set up now as its getting more track focussed as im going to buy a sensible car aswell so i can go nuts on mine :)

Overall as a mainly daily driven car, that wants adjustablility, improved handling but maintaining a comfortable ride id say tein SS are the way to go :)


Hope that helped, just my opinion!


also........ alot of people find they dont go "low enough"

Mine were plenty low enough for me..... and i had space left to go lower if i wanted, depends how low you want it i suppose...... this is my VTI with them on, with about 1" left to go down on the back and about half inch left on the front....

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i found that perfect for still be able to drive it hard and get over speedbumps etc
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Thanks for the informative response and the pic! The only thing that's bothering me is the ride height. I wanted to drop the front around 2.25 inches and the rear around 2.0 inches. I don't thing the SS goes that low.
 
They do go low BUT that's only at the end of the threads.........

I sold my super streets as I found them to be not much of an upgrade over oem, they are pretty basic coilovers with spring rates not much higher than standard (oem 4.6k front / 3k rear > tein 6k front / 3k rear)

To get the coilovers to feel responsive you need to yank up the damping which is a bit grim as this results in them feeling very crashy over bumps

IMO I would only buy anything in the tein range from flex upwards, they have more suitable rates and also have seperate height/preload adjustment which is key for setting them up correctly
 
stevenEK9 said:
They do go low BUT that's only at the end of the threads.........

I sold my super streets as I found them to be not much of an upgrade over oem, they are pretty basic coilovers with spring rates not much higher than standard (oem 4.6k front / 3k rear > tein 6k front / 3k rear)

To get the coilovers to feel responsive you need to yank up the damping which is a bit grim as this results in them feeling very crashy over bumps

IMO I would only buy anything in the tein range from flex upwards, they have more suitable rates and also have seperate height/preload adjustment which is key for setting them up correctly
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Dont know what model Super streets you had but i got a set jus over a year ago and the spring rates were 8k front / 4k rear. But i will agree they were prity crashy over any sort of bumps. Id say shocks and progressive springs are best for road or a better coilover make as i wouldnt recomend Tien SS for fast street or track to be ohnest.

Iv recently changed to Spoon springs and KYB ajdustable shocks id say the car is much more balanced and poised on the road, maybe a bit more body roll on a track but the balance inspires more confidence whitch in my eyes is the key.
 
No im using UK type rear arms and forks. But yes i stand corrected there i didnt know they used softer spring on the EK as to the EG, strange one??

But still id say most coilover setups i have seen seem to be to soft on the rear in comparison to the front like with the tiens the front is double the rear promoting understeer. But my spoon progresives there is only 1k diff front to rear. 6.5k F/5.5k R.

Personaly if i was buyin any coilovers at the moment for daily driving an little track id give those miester R zeta S or zeta R's a go as they seem to have a good balance front to rear and seem quite good value. Tien SS jus didnt feel right no matter how i adjusted them.
 
Just another warning about crappy Teins, my mates car just failed its MOT because one of the three month old Teins (£1100 worth) has dumped it's oil everywhere and is offering no damping force what so ever.

I hear a lot of reports of them doing this. But hey, if you still wanna go for them be my guest...
 
Would anybody recommend Tein SUPER RACING coil overs? any experiences with those? Right now its a battle between MONO FLEX and SUPER RACING. Money is not an issue, i want the best and most aggressive coilovers out there. Im willing to spend up to 3,000 $
 
Stock96EK said:
Would anybody recommend Tein SUPER RACING coil overs? any experiences with those? Right now its a battle between MONO FLEX and SUPER RACING. Money is not an issue, i want the best and most aggressive coilovers out there. Im willing to spend up to 3,000 $
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I think the question is... what are you doing to your car?
If you want an aggressive track coilovers, it won't ride nice on the road.
If you want an very comfortable road coilovers, it won't hard enough for the track.
If you want it to do both and do them well, then it is a compromise that you have to make.

What is your main focus? What do you want to do with the car?
And more importantly, what is the car? (road car or completely cage up race car? will you drive it on the road or trailer only?)

All those affect the answer of what is "best" for you.

Jerrick
 
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