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Dampers are smaller as mike says which gives them the reputation of a hard ride but not a prob if you get adjustable damping and besides normally coilover kits use a better quality damper unit than most spring & damper kits. For example by non damping adjustable FKs have as good a ride as OE!
-Rob
ok ride height is easy to do you use a c spanner at the front end and a i used a large adjustable to set the rear platforms but to be honest i would have it set at a height that you feel happy with and leave it there. this way you can have the tracking and gemotery set up by somone at an alignment centre and just forget about it. ride will be firmer than std but it is not harsh. ive had my h&r coilovers fitted for over a year now they are non adjustable damping and even on sh*te roads i never feel it is bone jarring ride. ive done a fair few trips of a coupleof hours on the motorway and b roads and never felt it was uncomfortable. as for the handling all i can say is good things. it went round corners before but now its even better. turn in is very precise and you basically just point it and it goes and sticks like sh*t to a blanket very very impressed with them definately the best mod ive done on the car
The only real differnce between coilovers and the regular strut/spring setup is the body.
Coilovers do not neccesarily use smaller dampers, they can use the same inserts but jsut use a body that doesnt have as large a spring seat. The Strut casting is threaded and an adjustable spring seat sits on this thread. As you move the spring seat up an down the thread it raises or lowers the car without altering installed spring height.
Handling isnt a function of design, but the component settings. So a coilover with the same damping rate and spring rates as a regular setup will give the same result. The only real diff is space saving and adjutability. But due to the nature of coilovers being performance items, they are almost always higher quality inserts.
The ride is determined but what spring you use and how hard the damping/rebound rates are.
