Hi guys,
anyone have any experience with CEIKA coilovers.
There is some good feedback from the M5, VW and some Japanese forums.
I have also been communicating with Cedric, the owner/director.
His customer service is impressive.

The 1M units are Taiwanese made with a lot of customization.

I know all the cliches -you get what you pay for etc…etc…

However, you guys in the USA don't know how good you have it. You usually have free shipping, discounts, group buys etc,…

In Australia, we are know dealing with a devalueing dollar and high shipping costs, which puts the Ceika at a price point which is hard to ignore.

For around $1K you get all the bells and whistles.

So anyone with them fitted, or some 1st hand experience with them??

Many thanks,

Loui

 

Interested to hear too.

 

I was also looking at the 2M 2-way coilovers, price with topmounts was a round 1500usd

Just trying yo figure what spring rate to choose.

 

Mattick,
Cedric quoted me 7kg/mm in front and 8kg/mm in the back.
I'm not sure how that would work with their shock valving, as you can specify different priorities for you setup- track, street, rally etc.
I think 7 up front would be ok but 8 in the back might not be enough, still doing my research.
Contact Cedrick at ceiko for his recommendation for your requirements.

 

It's works out to be around $1,500AUD before delivery and duties etc.
Very tempting seeing that PSS10's are 3 times the price and KW's are 4 times.
I think they would work well however I don't know how long they would last.
Ride height adjustment is a big one for me as I scrape on everything with the standard ride height.

Good to see some more Aussies on here.

 

They look very similar to K-Sport and other coilovers all coming from one manufacturer in Taiwan. 5-6 years ago people were writing good things about them - even guys who were known as track rats (I am assuming these are the same as JIC Cross coilovers). Reviews on other resellers/brands are mixed.

 

umw tune, speedtech x pipe 100 cell cats, gt2 intercoolers, second snorkel intake

 

Judging by the lack of responses and experience, I might give them a miss!!

 

one thousand dollars set of ( adjustable, must be? ) brand new coilovers?! sounds almost too good to be true? perhaps I'm misunderstanding the exchange rate.

if they were an option, how would "we" not ever known of this option before?? that's about 35% of what a middle range set would cost here before tax and shipping etc.

"something" is possibly "missing"?? because if they are even a remotely viable option, i would think guys'd be jumping all over them?

add: i get it. so these are "built to order" along with requested spring rates etc?? am i getting this right??

 

Lots of ~$1000 coil overs out there. Not alot of talk about them on this forum though

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1999-2004-Po...FVkfIb&vxp=mtr

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BC-Racing-BR...RSZ-5R&vxp=mtr

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Jic-Magic-Cr...lWgIdC&vxp=mtr

I suspect because they arent expensive or German made they are largely ignored since that tends to be the bias on the P-Car forums. From experience on other non-Porsche sports cars, $1500 coil overs tend to be pretty good and last well. For example, the Tein Flex on my FD Rx7 ride great. I wish I could get a set for my 996...

That being said, I've zero personal experience with coil overs on a 996 at this point in time. Largely because Ive been following the herd and aiming at PSS10, but its hard to justify to myself why I need to spend ~$3k on coil overs when every other car does great on $1500-1800 coil overs.

 

its all about price point. you use rx7 so will i. how many did they make? 100,000? 500,000? so the cost for the parts for a half a million 30k$ cars is cheap. how many 996 turbos are made? maybe 6000 worldwide? and how many shock companies are there that build systems for these cars? maybe 5? so the price is much higher. are they better? possibly. it he world of orz,moton or penske absolutely
. in the world of bilstein or kw maybe not so much difference.

 

For curiousity sake I decided to go look this up.

Assuming my quick search is remotely accurate on forums:
Grand total globally: 23114 turbo 996 variants


So nearly 3x as common. I'll grant you that, but also on a decade older car there are sure to have been a tremendous amount of attrition on too.

Guess I'll hush about it and continue pondering whether I really want to spend $3k on PSS10 or just accept my 4x4 stock look

 

what you fail to realize is that with a new price tag of 130+K your cost of the car comes down but the cost of maintaince doesn't. same thing with mercedes. 10 yr old cars still cost a fortune to fix. even at 24,000 units made worldwide thats less than a single yrs production of most any other sports car . its a small niche market. same reason a new ls3 crate motor cost 8000$ and a used turbo motor costs 18000$!!

 

Ceika stuff is actually very high quality. There are 2 reasons they are the price they are. First they are made in Taiwan. Labor and materials there are about half of what they are in say the usa. They make super high quailty products and parts though and surpass a lot of stuff made in the usa.
Second reason is they ate made to order. They do not stocks premade shocks. This cuts overhead a lot.

If I buy something new to replace my h&r coilovers I'll be ordering ceika shocks

 

Never heard of Ceika, have had some buddies have decent results with ksports though which are in that price range. JIC were about 2500-3000 new when they came out so not really in the same price range. I have had tremendous results with JIC setting many time trial lap records on them at major tracks. I have run them for almost 10 years now.

I wouldn't run them unless they were tested on some marquee first. If they leak or have issues then you end up spending more money taking them on and off than buying a better set to begin with.