jsbear

Definately won't to lose some of the wheel gap and take away some of the body roll. S4 is a Daily driver, don't plan on tracking the car. Concerns, I don't want the suspension too tight, looking for balance something between the stock setup and the track setup. The price of the H&R Coilovers at $1250'ish is about as much as I want to spend. I don't want to do springs ONLY then end up having to do shocks later and pay for the install twice.

I'm in SoCal so there are no issues with Winter and the roads are fairly good.

Opinions highly appreciated.

THANKS FOR YOUR TIME.

Pearl S-4

I have the Eibach Pro-kit springs in my S-4 and after 15k miles on them, I absolutely love them. I originally installed them after a high speed country run (around 135mph) during which I found the car VERY unstable. So I called some friends of mine who race the Audi cup cars in Europe and they recommended the Eibachs really highly. If you can install them yourself you'll save almost a thousand dollars over the coilovers without installation. I rode in a coilovered S-4 and there was less body roll but the car rode exactly like mine over bumps and it was running on winter 17's and it was set to it's most tame setting. So, unless you change your mind and want to go racing now and then I would go with springs only. A high quality spring will lose very little of it's rebound capabilities in normal driving conditions over 4-5 years in my opinion. Hope this helped.

hater

One word, VORTRAG!!! get them made to your specs

jsbear

Did you read me post ?

CatOne

which is like 500 front/550 rear or the like, and set height. It's very streetable (as comfy as stock) just doesn't grind the outside body of the car on high speed corners like stock does

-B

nick n

Are there optional spring rates?

jsbear

How much is this going to set me back ?

CatOne

The spring rates on the fixed springs are *not* adjustable -- they're fixed at something like 500/550. I think the cost here is around $1500 (so not cheap but pretty good stuff and very streetable). Not coilovers so it's a fixed drop, something like 1.5" but I'm not 100% sure down to the 0.1"

The coilovers you can get in a variety of spring rates from around 500# to 800# (you can pick front & rear rates... whatever you want). I'm getting 700#F/750#R any day now and Jason told me they wouldn't be too harsh for street. I'm hoping not -- I've ridden in 600F/650R on the street and it was great, and in 650F/750R on the track (also great).

If you really want a track setup you can pay more $$$ and get super-duper shocks and higher spring rates. I think Corey S is going 800F/1000R (and the shocks are probably less "comfy") but keep in mind he'd be willing to wear a mouthpiece around town to avoid chipping his teeth if he got a little better performance on the track!

Anyway I'd encourage you to call Todd or Jason and inquire as to the options (numbers on their web site www.vortrag.com). They're good guys but they can get, uh, overwhelmed at times and can be slow. I'd encourage you to be very specific on asking what parts they have in stock and can ship right away, or badger them to try and get accurate lead times. Otherwise you may be waiting a LONG time

Cheers,

-B

nick n

I'm going to get more info on the fixed height package. Thanks.