Taz, the Leda's are a better quality damper, no doubt about that. Its the method of lowering the ride height thats flawed. I'm ordering another set of longer and slightly softer springs to go on mine.
I've almost got the leda's sorted now, I have just about the right amount of travel and at the ride height I want.

I'll PM you some pictures later to show you how it all goes together.


Marco, do you have any pictures ofyour set up ?

Jimbo - will your old springs from your leda's fit on my FK struts? (Fronts ofcourse)

The Eibach springs are a 2.5" ID where the FK uses a 60mm ID so you'd have to fabricate a larger spring platform for the bottom. I have an adaptor for the top for when I was using the FK top mount bearing so that bit would be ok.

Are you thinking of changing springs ? I've got some spare 100Nmm FK springs if you want to go stiffer than the standard 80Nmm, They are stiff mind you!

If not have a look in here:

http://eibach.com/eibach/img/ers-catalog-2004.pdf

Scroll down until you get to 60mm ID springs and then be confused by the numbers
Page 29-33

Spring rates are listed in Lbs/in and N/mm in Col 'C'

They do a 60-150N/mm progressive tender that might work, its just a shame the FK's arent adjustable damping so you can't control the rebound bouncing.

You have PM

I guess that this GB never happened? Has anyone got any experience with APEX RDX Coilovers? They're are bloody cheap at £480 and got good reviews on other forums. Do they use standard top mount or the Brava one?

Wow, a thread from 2008

These dampers are in production now and a few guys are running them. Have a read of this little lot:
http://www.fiatcoupeclub.org/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1291528&page=1

Yeah, I was searching long and hard, Jimbo I saw the thread you're referring to but it's BC not Apex or is it the same thing?

Any experience with Apex RDX? I know they're inferior as they got no camber or damping adjustment but would like to know if anyone has experienced them.

Kev from Apex, is Apex Performance, which are a distributor of the BC coilovers in the UK.

Did the issue with the rear spring on the BC's get sorted in the end?

I've just ordered a set so I'm hoping so

Yes, longer springs, different spring platform and the rear damper has been changed. I still need to swap my rear dampers over but it's been too cold to do it

How can I tell if mine are the improved ones prior to fitting

Well, I've had mine since beginning of Nov, so if you have ordered now I would expect them to be the new kit, but to tell, if you can't get the spring out when the rear trailing arm is at full droop then it's the new kit

Just received my BC coilovers. The rear spring has the same part No as dlongstaff's so BC clearly haven't solved the problem, that they are fully aware of.
The rear shock absorber appears to tave length adjustment, can't the length be reduced to solve the issue?

The spring platform changed at the rear, I'm not sure the actual spring changed? It will soon become apparent when you fit them, if the spring dislodges on full suspension droop then it's an MOT fail and you've got the wrong kit.

The rear spring changed also