H&R RSS Club Sport - any experience?

[ericinboca]

Does anyone have experience with H&R RSS Club Sport coilovers on their 986? If so, how is the balance?

I have a set of street performance H&R coilovers on my track dedicated '04 986S. I've liked them, but have outgrown them of late. Time for an upgrade.

The spring rates for the club sports are slightly more 2x the street performance set, and are in the range of what I think I need....bu I'm concerned about loosing the balance I have right now front to back that I have now.

[gandrade1]

Does anyone have experience with H&R RSS Club Sport coilovers on their 986? If so, how is the balance?

I have a set of street performance H&R coilovers on my track dedicated '04 986S. I've liked them, but have outgrown them of late. Time for an upgrade.

The spring rates for the club sports are slightly more 2x the street performance set, and are in the range of what I think I need....bu I'm concerned about loosing the balance I have right now front to back that I have now.

Interested in selling your H&R street performance coilovers if you haven't already done so?

PM me if interested...

Best,

Gus

[Sami951]

Does anyone have experience with H&R RSS Club Sport coilovers on their 986? If so, how is the balance?

I have a set of street performance H&R coilovers on my track dedicated '04 986S. I've liked them, but have outgrown them of late. Time for an upgrade.

The spring rates for the club sports are slightly more 2x the street performance set, and are in the range of what I think I need....bu I'm concerned about loosing the balance I have right now front to back that I have now.

Hi,

Digging back up this old topic. Anyone have real-world experience with the RSS coilovers yet? Also interested to know what are the spring rates for normal H&R coilover set, versus the RSS version, if anybody knows them..

Thanks!

[ericinboca]

Does anyone have experience with H&R RSS Club Sport coilovers on their 986? If so, how is the balance?

I have a set of street performance H&R coilovers on my track dedicated '04 986S. I've liked them, but have outgrown them of late. Time for an upgrade.

The spring rates for the club sports are slightly more 2x the street performance set, and are in the range of what I think I need....bu I'm concerned about loosing the balance I have right now front to back that I have now.

Hi,

Digging back up this old topic. Anyone have real-world experience with the RSS coilovers yet? Also interested to know what are the spring rates for normal H&R coilover set, versus the RSS version, if anybody knows them..

Thanks!

H&R doesn't publish their spring rates. You can find some places on the web that includes springs rates for club sport and for the sport version, but I am unsure of their accuracy.

I can tell you about some of my experience, though.

My 986S started out with M030. I switched to a first generation set of H&R Sport coilovers - not just the springs, but their kit. Note it was first generation. It was stiffer than the M030 and dropped the car down about 1.5 inches - the lowering allowed me to get more negative camber without doing anything unnatural.

After running with that set up for awhile, I switched to PSS9s. I was considering the H&R club sports but could not find anyone with experience with them, I wanted some adjustability because I was visting multiple tracks, and the boxster spec guys use PSS9s with various springs rates.

I found the PSS9s with the stock springs that come with them to be softer - even at the stiffest setting - than the H&R sports. But note I had first generation H&R sports, and my speed shop claimed they were stiffer than today's sport version.

They were really too soft for my track purposes, so after a few months, I changed the spring rates to what the boxster spec guys use - 450 and 500. This is pretty stiff. Stiffness is different for different people, but to me, 450/500 is too stiff for street, but pretty good rate for track use with a car that has been lightened. 450/500 is about the limit without revalving for the PSS9s, BTW.

I think the PSS9s are good for a combined street/track car. Swift Springs make metric diameters that fit right in place without any adpaters, etc. You could use the stiff settings on a track and dial them back for street.

Don't know if that helps, but there 'ya go whether it does or not ;)

[Sami951]

Thanks, all comments do help! .. I might have a chance of trying a local BoxS with "normal" H&R coilovers installed, that would probably give enough insight into whether the RSS' would be too stiff or not (if considering they would be approx 2x the spring rate). Adjustable shocks like with the PSS9's would be for sure better ultimately, as one could change the springs quite easily - like you did .. but I'm personally afraid that the more things I can adjust, the more I can mess it up, so fixed valving is much more straight forward :)