BC Racing Coilovers: Achieving the Perfect Ride Height and Handling
Posted by Matthew Marks on 1st Aug 2024
Are you tired of the stock suspension on your vehicle that leaves you craving better handling and a more comfortable ride? Look no further than BC Racing Coilovers - the ultimate solution for achieving the perfect ride height and enhancing your car's overall performance.
Whether you're a racing enthusiast or looking to improve your daily driving experience, BC Racing Coilovers offer unparalleled adjustability and quality.
With their advanced engineering and cutting-edge technology, these coilovers allow you to fine-tune your suspension to meet your specific needs, providing optimal comfort and control on any road surface.
Say goodbye to the limitations of factory suspension systems and unleash the potential of your vehicle with BC Racing Coilovers.
Join the ranks of countless drivers who have experienced the transformative power of these coilovers and take your driving experience to new heights.
Get ready for a smoother, more responsive ride that will leave you wondering how you ever settled for anything less.
The Importance of Vehicle Height and Handling
Regarding your vehicle's suspension, ride height and handling are key factors that significantly impact your driving experience. Vehicle height refers to the distance between the ground and the lowest point of your vehicle.
Achieving the perfect ride height not only enhances the aesthetics of your car but also plays a crucial role in its performance. It affects the vehicle's centre of gravity, aerodynamics, and stability.
On the other hand, handling refers to how well your car responds to steering inputs and maintains stability during corners and manoeuvres.
A well-tuned suspension system with the right balance of comfort and stiffness can significantly improve your vehicle's handling capabilities, allowing you to take corners with confidence and control.
Benefits of Using BC Racing Coilovers
BC Racing Coilovers are renowned for their exceptional performance and unrivalled adjustability. These coilovers offer a wide range of benefits, making them the go-to choice for car enthusiasts and professionals.
Firstly, BC Racing Coilovers precisely control your vehicle's ride height. With adjustable spring perches and threaded bodies, you can easily fine-tune the ride height to achieve the perfect stance for your car.
Whether you prefer a slammed look or a moderate drop, BC Racing Coilovers allow you to customise it to your liking.
In addition, BC Racing Coilovers also offer adjustable damping to ride height adjustability. Damping refers to the resistance of the coilovers to compression and rebound.
Adjusting the damping settings allows you to tailor the suspension to your desired level of comfort and performance.
Whether driving on smooth highways or tackling rough terrain, BC Racing Coilovers will enable you to optimise your suspension for the best possible ride quality and handling characteristics.
Another significant advantage of BC Racing Coilovers is their durability and build quality.
These coilovers are engineered using high-quality materials and undergo rigorous testing to withstand the demands of aggressive driving and harsh road conditions.
With BC Racing Coilovers, you can trust that your suspension system will perform reliably and provide long-lasting performance.
Understanding the Different Types of BC Racing Coilovers
BC Racing offers a range of coilovers to suit various vehicle types and driving preferences.
Understanding the different types can help you choose the right set of coilovers for your specific needs. The most common types of BC Racing Coilovers include:
BC Racing V1 Series
The BC Racing V1 series coilovers have a large 44mm piston and a 50mm damper body, which increases capacity and improves performance. When the unit operates, the oil heats up and changes viscosity, affecting damping characteristics.
BC Racing uses high-quality oil and a larger damper body to reduce peak temperature and significantly improve performance.
BC Racing BR Series
BC Racings BR Series coilovers provide the perfect balance of comfort and performance.
These coilovers use a large 46mm diameter piston in a 53mm diameter damper body, which maximizes oil capacity over the v1 Series. As the damper unit operates, the oil heats up, and its viscosity changes, affecting the damping characteristic of the unit.
However, BC Racing uses high-quality oil and builds its BR range with a large 53mm diameter damper body to increase oil capacity and reduce peak temperature. This results in significantly improved damper performance.
BC Racing DS Series
The DS Coilover system from BC Racing is a suitable option for those seeking track-focused coilovers. It features digressive valving and piston design for a non-linear damping curve.
This allows higher low-speed damping to control body roll during cornering, acceleration, and braking while reducing high-speed damping to prevent impact from transmitting fully into the car shell when running over kerbs. This results in improved car balance.
Overall, the DS Coilover system offers similar benefits to the BR Type model.
BC Racing ER Series
The BC Racing ER Series coilovers feature external reservoirs and separate compression and rebound damping adjustments. This allows you to customise the damping rates to your exact needs.
For example, when braking before a corner, you want the car to transfer weight to the front tires for maximum grip.
You want the suspension to lift slowly and avoid understeering as you enter the corner.
Adjusting the compression and rebound damping separately lets you fine-tune how the car responds to these actions. This allows you to maximise your cornering speed and achieve the highest possible speed on the next straightaway.
BC Racing RM Series
The BC Racing RM coilovers have a damping-adjustable, monotube inverted damper unit that reduces unsprung weight and keeps vital damper fluid away from heat sources.
This improves ride quality and handling, especially during extreme track use.
The inverted damper also maintains consistent damping rates by reducing the amount of conducted heat transferred from the braking system to the damper.
BC Racing HM Series
The HM Coilover system from BC Racing provides all the benefits of the RM Series, plus 2-way damping adjustment. Each HM Coilover system includes inverted mono-tube dampers with adjustable compression and rebound.
The inverted damper design moves damper fluid away from heat sources, preventing overheating and damper fade during extreme track use.
Not only does this design improve performance, but it also reduces unsprung weight, leading to better ride quality, wheel control, and steering feel.
The BC Racing HM Series is ideal for demanding track users with its inverted mono-tube dampers and external reservoirs.
BC Racing ZR Series
The BC Racing ZR Series Coilovers are an exceptional coilover system that comes at an unbeatable price in the performance suspension market.
Designed for racers of all levels, from novice to pro, this system offers independent low-speed and high-speed compression adjustment and separate rebound adjustment.
It also provides full height adjustability independent of piston travel and spring preload.
For cars with McPherson struts, the ZR Series has an inverted monotube damper featuring a steel braided Teflon-coated line that exits towards the external reservoirs at the top of the damper.
These reservoirs can be mounted remotely in the engine bay or boot.
The ZR Series kits have 30 clicks of rebound adjustment, 15 clicks of low-speed compression adjustment, and 12 clicks of high-speed compression, providing complete control over your vehicle's performance.
Factors to Consider When Choosing BC Racing Coilovers
When selecting the perfect set of BC Racing Coilovers, the variety of options available can be overwhelming. However, by considering a few key factors, you can make an informed decision that will ultimately enhance your driving experience.Another crucial factor to consider is your vehicle's intended use. Suppose you primarily use your car for daily commuting and occasional spirited driving. In that case, consider the BR or DS Series, as they offer a good balance of comfort and performance.
What features do BC Racing coilovers offer?
Adjustable vehicle ride height
By using BC Racing coilovers, you can effortlessly adjust your vehicle's ride height by simply changing the position of the coilover bottom mount.
This grants you complete control to fine-tune your ride height to suit your preferences by winding it up and down the damper body.
Compared to a spring platform, adjusting the bottom mount guarantees you maintain full damper travel regardless of the ride height.
Corner weight adjustment
The BC Racing coilovers come with an adjustable lower spring platform that allows you to set up your car for optimal corner weighting, achieve perfect balance, and maximise tyre efficiency.
It's essential to ensure that each tyre in an axle carries an equal workload during cornering for equal weight distribution.
This guarantees a better grip, maximum corner speed, and reduced lap times. Additionally, you can purchase optional assister springs to tailor the wheel droop according to your specific needs.
Adjustable damping
BC Racing coilovers boast a 30-way damping adjustment that enables effortless rebound and compression control. This feature empowers you to tailor the car's handling to suit specific conditions.
With the ability to manipulate the front and rear damping, you can alter the vehicle's behaviour to your liking.
Increasing the damping force at the rear of the car compared to the front will make the car more likely to oversteer.
If you're keen on drag racing in a rear-wheel-drive car, you'll need the car's rear to squat off the line to transfer weight to the rear tires and boost traction. To accomplish this, you can soften the rear dampers to facilitate quicker compression.
Alternatively, if you're facing issues with drifting, such as understeer, and struggling to break traction, stiffening the rear dampers and softening the front ones will do the trick.
This will loosen up the car's back end and minimise understeer, influencing the vehicle's handling characteristics to suit drifting.
Pillow ball top mounts
The BC Racing BR coilovers boast pillow ball upper mounts crafted from sturdy aluminium alloy that's anodized and bead blasted to a superior finish.
These Japanese-manufactured pillow balls are rock-solid, eliminating flex or play commonly found in standard rubber mounts.
The result significantly improves response and handling, ensuring an unparalleled driving experience.
Camber adjustment
If camber adjustment is possible on your vehicle, the BC Racing coilovers are equipped with top-of-the-line aluminium pillow ball top mounts that provide camber adjustability.
These Japanese pillow balls are of the highest quality and allow you to customize your camber to suit your specific requirements, whether for the road, track, or drift.
High quality components
The BC Racing damper units are constructed from black chromed steel, guaranteeing exceptional durability, even in the harshest European winters.
The aluminium components, such as the top mounts and locking collars, are anodised, while the steel lower mounts undergo a powder coating process.
To ensure that they maintain the highest standards of anti-corrosion protection, they randomly select steel components, such as brackets, dampers, and screws, once a month and subject them to a salt spray test.
The spring manufacturer exclusively uses the highest quality steel, specifically SAE9254 cold-wound steel, renowned for its strength and durability.
Lastly, the springs undergo a compression test with over 500,000 cycles, ensuring less than 5% deformation and optimal performance.
Innovative locking collars
Coilovers commonly face an issue of the bottom mount becoming loose and causing hazardous handling. To counter this problem, BC Racing has developed a patented lower locking collar that fits precisely into the corresponding bevel in the coilover bottom mount.
This unique design significantly increases the surface area the locking collar works on, effectively preventing locking collars from becoming loose. With BC Racing's innovative solution, you can rest assured that your coilovers will not pose any safety concerns.
High quality oil and nitrogen filled dampers
BC Racing dampers are meticulously engineered with a state-of-the-art shim stack and premium-quality oil to deliver unparalleled consistency in compression and rebound speeds, even under the most extreme conditions.
While tackling rough terrains, the motion of the damper rod tends to heat the oil, leading to poor quality oil and subsequently affecting the vehicle's handling.
BC Racing uses only the finest quality oil that maintains consistent viscosity over a wide temperature range to combat this.
Furthermore, the dampers are pressurised with nitrogen to minimise aeration and enhance the consistency and quality of the damping. This technique also adds a highly effective spring rate to the damper unit.
By using these advanced methods, BC Racing ensures that damping rates are maintained effectively, making the damper unit highly durable for short- and long-term use.
Maintenance and Care for BC Racing Coilovers
To achieve the utmost performance and lifespan of your BC Racing Coilovers, it is vital to conduct regular maintenance and care. Keep in mind these helpful tips for proper upkeep.
1. Regular Inspections
It is highly recommended that you conduct routine inspections on your coilovers to determine if there are any damages, leaks, or signs of excessive wear.
This is an essential step in ensuring the longevity and optimal performance of your coilovers.
Moreover, it is crucial to address any issues promptly to avoid further damage and guarantee safe functionality. Doing so can prevent potential safety hazards and save you from costly repairs in the long run.
2. Cleaning
To maintain your coilovers in good condition, it's essential to wash them regularly with soap and water. This will eliminate any dirt, debris, or corrosive substances that can build up from regular use.
You can use Tegiwa coilover socks to help protect your shock bodies and collars from water, salt, and grit. These neoprene socks are equipped with heavy-duty velcro and can help extend your components' lifespan.
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3. Lubrication
To keep your coilover components running smoothly and prevent premature wear, it's important to lubricate them according to the manufacturer's guidelines.
Consider using ACF-50 rust protection, which has proven effective for many years on cars equipped with Tegiwa coilover socks. With this product, your components will look brand new even after extended use.
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4. Adjustment Check
It's important to frequently inspect and adjust the ride height and damping settings to make sure they're working correctly. If anything isn't tightened properly, you can detect and fix the problem before it causes any major issues.
5. Professional Servicing
If you need help maintaining your coilovers or encounter problems, it's best to seek professional servicing. Certified technicians can offer expert advice, make necessary repairs, and ensure your coilovers perform at their best.
To get the best service, you should contact BC Racing, who can rebuild them or provide an approved location.
Conclusion
BC Racing Coilovers are the key to achieving the perfect ride height and handling for your vehicle. Whether you're a racing enthusiast or looking to enhance your daily driving experience, BC Coilovers offers unparalleled adjustability, quality, and performance.
By fine-tuning your suspension with BC Racing Coilovers, you can enjoy optimal comfort, control, and responsiveness on any road surface.
With their advanced engineering and cutting-edge technology, BC Coilovers are a game-changer that will transform your vehicle into a true performance machine.
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