philipchan

well...i still waiting for our group buy for the megans man...
but i'm happy with my mazdaspeed springs and shocks now..
by the way, anyone tried the new mazdaspeed coilover that posed on the mazdausa.com for a while?

otakurx

I have the RBs and they make a good difference in handling. I have the Tokico D-Spec shocks going in next and a set of RB swaybars. I'm doing everything one step at a time so I can gauge how it changes the attitude of the car.

The RBs do stiffen the ride up but not horribly and I found that with just springs I had a noticeable increase in cornering ability tho they are not so stiff as to cause the car to hop around as the road surface gets a little rough. With the aftermarket springs you can tell the shocks are stock, I noticed over time I could feel that as my week point with the suspension now so that is how I chose the shocks as step 2 and then I'll be doing the swaybars as step 3. Also if your going to get more spirited with driving I recommend moving to a high-performance material brake pad, HPS and HP+ from Hawk are an inexpensive way to get some better braking without having to worry about brake temps. I currently run and am very happy with the HPS, they also will work well with the stock rotors the HP+'s will eat the stock rotors a bit.