If it is strictly a track car and you want a comfortable ride your best bet is to get struts plus ground control springs. Gives you the daily comfortably with the ability to lower the car as much as you want.

Bryan @ Rx7 Boutique

 

He's not tracking the car.

Here are a couple of points:
1. Coilovers are a benefit when you are trying to corner balance the car. This is usually only beneficial for cars that see lots of track time or full on race cars. The FD is already very well balanced weight wise. Some people think that coilovers don't provide as comfortable of a ride quality compared to a shock/spring combo.
2. Lowering springs such as Eibach, H&R, RSR, Tein and others lower the car a nice amount, maintain great ride quality for Daily Driving duties and are attractively priced. They also work very well on track if you ever go down that route.
3. stock FD shocks are actually really good. Howard coleman has tested many of them and even at the 100k mile mark, they work well. So long as they aren't visibly leaking you can use them with springs. They also pair really well with the springs I mentioned above. My experience is that at ~120k miles they aren't that great.
4. If you need aftermarket shocks, Konis and Tokicos offer great performance and ride quality.
5. Konis have adjustable spring perches so you can (if you want) set the perch at the middle setting and use the stock springs and have a slightly lower ride. You can't adjust on the fly since you have to take everything apart to change the spring perch but it does give you some options depending on what your needs and wants are.

Good luck.

 

Then, Tein Flex or Super Street is good. I'm using Super Street on a different car and it is way too soft even with bad road here.

 

I never had much love for the yellow konis or tokico 5 ways because they can't handle the spring rates required on an FD. The only cheap off the shelf shock that was any good is no longer made and that's the Gab Super R 8 ways.

If you plan on running stock size wheels and tires just use the stock shocks w/ some lowering springs but I'm guessing that's not the case. These cars need atleast 255s front and rear and that will require more spring which means a shock that can handle heavier springs and other than the expensive koni double adj or the GC advance design shocks I don't know of one that can get the job done economically and even those are 250 each so you're better off just getting some coilovers

For a street FD the best/cheapest setup I know of are the Tein Flex's and you can still autox or track the car w/ decent feedback, balance and ride very confortably around town on the softer settings, they'll also alow you to corner weight and because the rates are approx 50% stiffer than stock you can run pretty low giving your FD a nice stance.

Do a search in the FS section I think I recall someone selling some at a great price and I'm pretty sure he's located in VA hehe

 

located in VA, or n/a ?

 

I just returned from N/A and I'm know located in Charlottesville VA 22901

Get me that price quote on the FIKSE wheels I can't find any out of production Hankook slicks anywhere the US and I refuse to spend 250 each on the Hoosiers