Hi there every one. im new to this site, and recently bought an 88 iroc camaro with a 350 tpi, with goal of 550 hp and to have it be a g machine. now ive been doing a lot of research already, but i want to know what you all think of spohn performance. i have looked over their website, and as far as i can tell, they have all the suspension and chassis stuff i need. i have just never heard of them and was wondering the feed back that you guys that have used their product have.
thanks
newbie

 

I cant' believe the 'Search' ****'s havent caught up to you yet.

Spohn? They rock. 'Nuff said.

Seriously, though, they have the best suspension products, and the best rep of any Thirdgen vendor, anywhere.

 

All I have to say is they are the best!! With awesome customer service!!!!:hail:


Kevin

 

https://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/sho...hreadid=271588

https://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/sho...ighlight=spohn

https://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/sho...ighlight=spohn

i havent heard anything bad about them. i have used them and am going to use them again.

 

thanks all. that is what i was hoping to hear. oh and one more question before i forget. what is the best springs to get that will lowering a 1-2 inches, and drastically improve cornering?

 

ebiach (sp?) seems to be the fav over the shelf spring setup. Then you will be getting into custom for your setup/style.

Spohn, so far all I have is their subframes, nice. I just got shipping notice of my torque arm :lala: Should be here wed.

Also check out unbalanced engineering, nice products too. More 4th-gen stuff, but some of it is the same.

 

I agree but would add that for handling get the Eibach Prokit rather than the Sportlines. It will be a nice improvement and even better with a good set of shocks. Anything more than that will require that you understand a lot about custom set ups in relation to your driving style etc. - so just get a Prokit and have fun.

 

George, can you elaborate on this a little? "I agree but would add that for handling get the Eibach Prokit rather than the Sportlines"

I was actually looking at sportlines

 

https://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/sho...hreadid=273133


You need some rake in the car. If you look at the cars with Sportlines the *** end sits too low and they tend to be a bit tail happy.

It's sort of general knowledge as well - like Crazy Hawiian says - he likes the look of the sportlines but prefers the feel of the prokit. Search around a bit, there's lots of posts.

There's a post listing the rates for aftermarket and stock springs. The prokit is around 715 linear front. The sportlines are a bit lower and the other after market springs are really low which = crap in my opinion.

I'm not an engineer but I run my car on long fast road courses and I talk to a lot of engineers at the track; their opinion is that you need some rake in the car; same with Global West, their spring kits have a lot of rake in them.

I think the Prokit is a really good off the shelf set of springs but I also think that I need closer to 800 lbs on the front as there is an uphill right hander on my local track which is like hitting a wall a 90 mph. Apart from that though, the car sits really tight on fast sweepers where I'm afraid to look at the tach/speedo but would estimate something around 80-90 mph.

For street/track I'm finding the Prokit to be a generally good package with Koni Yellows - you can probably do better but for off the shelf it's OK.

 

"*** sits too low" (I didn't even know you could say '***' )

I thought they drop 1.6" F and 1.3" R.

I have one other question, what's a rake? -- couldn't figure out what you said there and you said the same thing in that other post.

 

Rake is the rear end sitting slightly higher.