Back in the day I was a sleeve coilover kinda guy. My first EF was lowered on some eBay Bomz sleeves on stock shocks. I thought they were the greatest thing ever. I paid $35, shipped, for a kit that lowered my car lower than I ever dreamed it would. I thought I was rollin' hard. It didn't bother me that my car felt like a Jolly Jumper and never seemed to stop bouncing. I was LOW! I thought these Bomz sleeve coilovers would help me grip the tight corners with ease, but I was wrong. After taking a corner too hard and crashing into a median sign I learned my lesson...sort of.

When I got my EG6 I knew that I wanted to put the best parts on it. I thought that "the best parts" were the ones that everyone else was using on the forums or that I saw at the shows. So I saved up some money and bought a set of Function & Form Type Two coilovers. The 32-way dampening gave my car a feeling that the Bomz couldn't. I was low, hitting corners hard, but I still I felt every bump in the road. I never thought about upgrading my suspension until my brand-new Skunk2 MegaPower Header was dented after only a few days. I had the Function & Form coilovers set completely stiff and with at least 2-1/2 inches of clearance yet they still bottomed out. My beautiful header was smooshed like a Jersey Shore groupie. I knew I had to upgrade my suspension before my MegaPower header ended up like my old header, which was completely trashed. So I hit up the guys at Skunk2 and picked up a set of Pro-S II Coilovers.



Recently I had a free night to slap them on...but before that I had to put my own twist on them :)



Here's a before pic of my setup: Function & Form Type Two coilovers and my Skunk2 Pro Series Plus Front Camber Kit. Funny thing about the F&Fs...they didn't even come with brackets to hold my brake lines in place. They're now gone after only six months of use.




Looks better, doesn't it? The Pro-S II Coilovers are beefier than my old coilovers and seem to be more heavy duty for lack of a better phrase. The Pro-S IIs look pretty nice once installed.



After the Pro-S IIs were installed I took her for a drive and was very pleased with the results. The same turns I used to take with my Function & Form's were no problem for the Pro-S IIs. And then came the real test: A bump that I'd almost always bottomed out on. Not anymore! I guess this is what a real coilover suspension is supposed to feel like. From Bomz to Function & Forms to Skunk2 Pro-S IIs, I once again graduated to something better :)

- Frank Garcia