Yellow Speed Racing coilovers

marty085 · Postby **marty085** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 6:31 pm

MX5 MANIA wrote:Great to see you support Australian Business! .. We pay rent, wages, website fees, phone & internet bills and so on

Maybe you guys could save some rent by relocating to the furthest corner of Sydn... oh wait..

Just joshin! :mrgreen:

Postby **NitroDann** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 6:41 pm

MX5 MANIA wrote:

In relation to the lip spoilers we do not have an account with R-Speed (to be honest they never bothered replying to us 2 years ago when we enquired about being a distributor for their items in Australia).

Probably should have called them ROFL!

Dann

Jace · Postby **Jace** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:23 pm

MX5 MANIA wrote:
Not to mention the exorbitant prices on most other items.
I just saved about $350 by buying r-package lip spoilers from the US instead of mania.

Hey Jace,

Great to see you support Australian Business! .. We pay rent, wages, website fees, phone & internet bills and so on to offer a friendly hassle free service to our customers and also offer installation services & hints + tips to those installing parts themself. Thats why we have mark up on products!

Just send us an email if you want to enquire if we can get a better price on some items.. with almost 2000 products listed on our website the prices are not always up to date, we are a small business and sometimes there is just not enough hours in the day or staff on the desk to adjust pricing to the rise and fall of the Australian Dollar.

In relation to the lip spoilers we do not have an account with R-Speed (to be honest they never bothered replying to us 2 years ago when we enquired about being a distributor for their items in Australia) so our front and rear lip spoilers are obtained from I.L Motorsport in Germany.

Kind Regards
Ajay

Ajay,

Don't get me wrong, there are certain items I will buy from you guys in the near future... but $800 for lip spoilers is the sort of price I would expect from a Mazda dealership's spare parts department.

Obviously you have a very solid market share and probably do a lot for the community, so ignore my comments and continue to price your items as you need to cover costs and then some.

- Jace

project.r.racing · Postby **project.r.racing** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:04 pm

After they started reading this thread, I got a few emails and PMs back. In the end, the communication again from MX5mania broke down. So I brought my Yellowspeed Pros from Wholesale Suspension today. They were able to quote me prices, spring rates etc via email, and I called them just to pay over the phone. It was a 48 hour process the started Monday lunch time. Still supporting Australian businesses that care. :wink:

jorgan92 · Postby **jorgan92** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:31 am

Does anyone know how these Yellow Speed's compare to say the BC's or the HSD's? Trying to make a decision between them all is not easy.

crum · Postby **crum** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 9:12 am

All of the yellowspeed stuff has non height adjustable rears? That's pretty shocking isn't it? I would expect height and damper adjustable options on all fours if I were purchasing a coilover?

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Bauer · Postby **Bauer** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 9:49 am

crum wrote:All of the yellowspeed stuff has non height adjustable rears? That's pretty shocking isn't it? I would expect height and damper adjustable options on all fours if I were purchasing a coilover?

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wasnt it only the very first ones that were only height adjustable by the springs? All the new ones are ok

Mr nanotech · Postby **Mr nanotech** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 12:44 pm

Ysr hVe had height adjustmentin thw rear for a loooong time ago. Had mine for a while now and theyre basicalky identical to bc be. The onky thing I dont like is rhat the geight in the rear is pretty weak at its lowest, but gelper springs are available for those who want low

Mr nanotech · Postby **Mr nanotech** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 12:45 pm

Damn phone...

neilhr · Postby **neilhr** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:03 pm

nanotech wrote:Ysr hVe had height adjustmentin thw rear for a loooong time ago. Had mine for a while now and theyre basicalky identical to bc be. The onky thing I dont like is rhat the geight in the rear is pretty weak at its lowest, but gelper springs are available for those who want low

Hey nano, where do you acquire these helper springs?

Mr nanotech · Postby **Mr nanotech** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:25 pm

Contact mania or a place that sells yellowspeed stuff. I think they were $60 a pair

neilhr · Postby **neilhr** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:33 pm

nanotech wrote:Contact mania or a place that sells yellowspeed stuff. I think they were $60 a pair

cool thanks, so this will allow an extra inch or so?

Mr nanotech · Postby **Mr nanotech** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:32 pm

Yeah from my understanding it allows you to adjust the height from the spring collar but keep the springs captive. Id say a good inch or two

Jace · Postby **Jace** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:23 pm

Helper springs are only there to keep the springs captive when there's no load on their corner ie. three wheeling turn-in or getting airborne.

If you have them in and wind the coils up, they will just bind up rock hard. They are compressible by hand so will have very very little effect on ride or handling.

Might as well have an alloy shim turned up to essentially make the lower spring seating collar an inch thicker.

Mr nanotech · Postby **Mr nanotech** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:38 pm

Dude you don't tighten the collar over the spring. When you max out the cars lowest setting using the lower height ajustment spring, you can further lower it by slackening off the collar the springs sit on. However if you want to go propper low, the trade off is that you will nolonger have captive springs and the springs will be floating.
With helper springs, you can wind the spring collar out and get the car low but at the same time keep them captive at all times. Therefore you can slam the car if you wanted and still have captives.