Totally Average
Active member
@shinoo
Quick background about me: I own and drive cars for the satisfaction they give me when they just work. I'm not a car show guy nor do I really care how the car looks, I just want to feel the car flowing and working. I prioritize suspension over everything else and seek those set ups where you are left with a zen experience.
With that said, I felt the sport suspension was good up to 7/10's, but not great after that. I felt a couple of things were compromised. 1) I felt the front end was high and had excessive understeer and the steering was too light - in order to get the car to bite and carve to my desire, I had to be overly aggressive on the brakes entering corners and somewhat mechanical in telling myself the car will grip, but without it reassuring me it will grip 2) I felt like the car moved up/down and laterally too much during fast driving - fine for 7/10ths but above that there was too much going on spatially in many directions to have confidence to push the car hard in a non-controlled (public roads) environment where you need to be prepared for unanticipated adjustments (decreasing radius, drainage undulations, etc).
I went to InoKinetic for help. For those who do not know, Shinoo / InoKinetic is an invaluable resource. He is a driver and a purist, so if you're in Southern CA and you aren't going to InoKinetic for service, advice, or mods, you are missing out on a rare resource.
He initially took my concerns and installed a set of Nitrons with custom spring rates, ride height, and alignment settings. It was a dramatic improvement from OEM, but I had a few new pieces of feedback. He graciously invited me back to make changes, free of charge, in order to zero in on what I was after. He made a few more tweaks to ride height and clicker settings, and the car is ridiculously good now.
Gone is the high, darty steering and understeer biased front. Replaced is a firmer, direct, heavier and more carvey feeling front end that I can trust with feel and not blind faith. The rear is controlled, still breathing with the road, but more controlled and predictable.
Go see him if you seek less understeer, more direct, confident steering feel, more front end grip and a great, service oriented, driver focused experience!
Quick background about me: I own and drive cars for the satisfaction they give me when they just work. I'm not a car show guy nor do I really care how the car looks, I just want to feel the car flowing and working. I prioritize suspension over everything else and seek those set ups where you are left with a zen experience.
With that said, I felt the sport suspension was good up to 7/10's, but not great after that. I felt a couple of things were compromised. 1) I felt the front end was high and had excessive understeer and the steering was too light - in order to get the car to bite and carve to my desire, I had to be overly aggressive on the brakes entering corners and somewhat mechanical in telling myself the car will grip, but without it reassuring me it will grip 2) I felt like the car moved up/down and laterally too much during fast driving - fine for 7/10ths but above that there was too much going on spatially in many directions to have confidence to push the car hard in a non-controlled (public roads) environment where you need to be prepared for unanticipated adjustments (decreasing radius, drainage undulations, etc).
I went to InoKinetic for help. For those who do not know, Shinoo / InoKinetic is an invaluable resource. He is a driver and a purist, so if you're in Southern CA and you aren't going to InoKinetic for service, advice, or mods, you are missing out on a rare resource.
He initially took my concerns and installed a set of Nitrons with custom spring rates, ride height, and alignment settings. It was a dramatic improvement from OEM, but I had a few new pieces of feedback. He graciously invited me back to make changes, free of charge, in order to zero in on what I was after. He made a few more tweaks to ride height and clicker settings, and the car is ridiculously good now.
Gone is the high, darty steering and understeer biased front. Replaced is a firmer, direct, heavier and more carvey feeling front end that I can trust with feel and not blind faith. The rear is controlled, still breathing with the road, but more controlled and predictable.
Go see him if you seek less understeer, more direct, confident steering feel, more front end grip and a great, service oriented, driver focused experience!
