KW v3 Coilovers and Custom Alignment Review

[andale927]

Installed the following last weekend:

KW v3 Coilovers
Corksport Camber Plates
M3 Endlinks
SPC Rear Camber Arms
Did not install the pictured whiteline endlinks after reading about how quickly they fail.



Install went alright, cutting the strut towers went much easier than expected. Ended up having to cut the front endlinks off. Also had to drill out the rear top hats to install the dampers. Did it all on a rental lift, would have been terrible to do outside in 90 degree weather.

Did not go too crazy with the lowering, only about 1.3-1.4" lower than stock.





Alignment:


(Front before toe specs are incorrect, had to reset machine mid-alignment)

Also made a homemade camber gauge. 100% dead-on, tested it on the alignment rack:



Did an autocross, the difference is almost unbelievable between the coilovers and custom alignment. Turn-in is way sharper with the slight toe out up front and the decreased camber in the back makes the car way more neutral bordering on oversteer. Slaloms are unbelievably fun, can carry a lot more speed through them now. The difference in front end grip is even more drastic outside of autocross. I thought the alignment might feel a bit twitchy on the road, but its not bad at all. Would recommend.

I'm really not that good at autocross but here's a clip anyways:

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I do rub in the rear, will need to roll the fenders very soon if I don't want to destroy the tires. There was no rub until I decreased rear camber to -1deg.

[allservice]

Nice. Planing to install V3 soon.
What’s your Rebound/Compression settings F/R?
Have you deleted the balance shaft, btw? I ask because stiffer suspension caused a lot of added NVH in my BSDed car when I was on Koni yellows.