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Somewhere in the middle lie the people who don't want to have to run Konis and sleeves, and just want a decent quality shock that will get the the ride height they want and provide adequate performance for a street track car.
Saying that KONIS ARE ALWAYS BETTER IF YOU DON'T RUN THEM YOU ARE AN IDIOT is pretty moronic since 8610s and GC sleeves don't really meet the needs of someone who just wants to go low and have a fun to drive car for not a huge amount of money.
Likewise, many commonly used dampers on Zilvia are useless to someone building a real track car because they often have poor valving characteristics and are not rebuildable/revalvable and also do not have the support of more commonly used racing dampers.
I sit right in the middle of this problem. I want my car to not look like a dickshoe and I'm building it almost exclusively to track.
Inserts in oem strut bodies with GC sleeves look like fucking crap imho, they do not go low enough on stock strut tubes.
If I wanted my project to have 4 feet of fender gap I would just sell my s14 and drive my Jeep everywhere.
It seems to me that I have a few options, either make custom strut bodies to get a good looking ride height with Koni 8610s and sleeves (which is what I did), or buy something premade that has decent valving and will be stupid expensive.
For a large portion of people here, MR coilovers are just fine even though they are chinese fake-brand bullshit. If all you've ever driven else is stock s13 sus or blown out tokico blues with sportlines, then they are going to feel pretty awesome in comparison.
I love my Konis and am glad I made that choice, but different strokes and such, then only thing I would change is that I would like to figure out a way to run Bilstein takeapart dampers in my S14 strut tubes.
I live in the middle of circle track country and just about every little dirt track shop can set you up with rebuildable bilstiens or afco aluminum body dampers and the stuff to revalve them without even having to order anything.
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