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Hi,

I’m looking for advice regarding a coil over kit plus/minus adapter plates for my 2002 Mk2.5

This is what it looks like at the moment:



I’d like to get rid of the off-road look but maintain comfort (daily drive), no track driving, just the occasional tour.

I would also like to keep the original rims.

This is a look I would like to achieve:





Many thanks in advance!


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Talk to the guys at MCA in Brisbane. Aussie made, excellent product back-up and very nice people.
They make a range of coil-overs from street to full on race and will recommend a set to suit your needs.
I have the XRs in my NB8C and I'm happy with them on the road and club track days.

Since you're not tracking the car, BC Racing BR Series Collovers are a good budget option you should look at too.

i wouldn't recommend anything cheaper than these since they'll be rubbish and most around the same price don't have the same user-approval as the BCs.
With the BC Racing coilovers you can also specify your spring rates.
By default they are 8kg front and 6kg rear which is a compromise between a track setup (9Front,6Rear) and a street-ony setup (7Front,6Rear).

The beauty of coliovers is that you can easily adjust them from hard to soft settings depending on your expected driving conditions (soften them for DD, stiffen them for the weekends through "the twisty stuff").

If you want to "cheap out", getting different springs are an option but do your research first to determine if your springs and OEM shocks work together - if not, your ride will suck and the shocks will need replacing sooner than you think and it will have been cheaper to switch to coilovers in the first place.

On the SE/MSM Bilstein shocks, H&R Race springs were a low-budget option.

FM isn't a big fan of replacing springs alone - that should tell you something.

drckarcher wrote:

Well this is my car, and the MCA Blues that are on the car in this photo coming off this weekend, so if you are after this look, I can help you out. They will be perfectly suited to the "ocassional tour"

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Well this is my car, and the MCA Blues that are on the car in this photo coming off this weekend, so if you are after this look, I can help you out. They will be perfectly suited to the "ocassional tour" [/quote]

What's going in to replace them?

I've got a set of MCA XR coilovers to replace them, as I'm now building the car more for the track than the road. I've had a number of MCA coilover sets in different cars now, and really rate them.

Having been in MX5s with Yellowspeeds, MCA (blue), and Tein (Flex-Z) Coilovers, i'd rate the MCA as the best of them.

The Tein next, they're nice, and good value, but not as good as the MCA. (not as comfy)

And the Yellowspeeds are a distant last, hated them, harsh, bouncy, just generally sh*t.