Who makes a better coilover? Seem to be same price range and wondering if one trumps the other. Fox 2.5 remote res or king remote res. maybe even throw the 2.0 into the comparison if wanted. Anyone have experience with the two brands.

 

Both are great shocks, both are used by sponsored race teams, and I would run either brand. However, the only reason I have King coilovers and King 3-tube by pass shocks mounted on each corner is that Off Road Evolution (the shop that built my rig) has worked extensively with King shocks on proprietary valving and spring rates to get the EVO spec'd shocks. All those days of testing in the rocks, on the trail and high speed baja desert runs has been done for me by the guys who do it for the race cars in the Baja 500/1000 and Rock Racing series. Make no mistake about it, the shocks you buy off the shelf from King and Fox are great, but unless you know what you are doing and have the time to do run after run, make adjustments, capture data, go back out and make maybe more changes to settings or even change coils and valve shims like pro teams do, you will just have great shocks with mediocre performance or possibly worse than what you started with. Professionals always make it look easier than it is, that's why I just bought Kings from Off Road Evolution, the work has been done for me.
By no means am I trying steer you away from running coilovers, like everything geared towards racing use it can almost always be applied to daily driver use. But because there is so much adjustibility/tuning that can be done, a person who is not willing to put forth the effort in educating themselves on tuning is wasting money on a piece of equipment's full capability. I ran coilovers on two of my dedicated road race track cars and tuning was always to get the last tenths of a second out of a car, and its painstaking. So for 90% of the people on this forum, coilovers will never be needed because their type of wheeling does not justify the upgrade. Case in point, a few forum members on this site and others are convinced they saw no real improvement in performance when they upgraded. These are guys that don't know what they don't know. So The bottom line is that both brands of shocks are probably the best, I decided to cheat and buy the ones that were ready, out of the box. Hope this rant has helped.

 

I was wanting to try a different brand coilover but have to agree with the evo spec kings already being tuned in would be a great advantage.

 

Are asking about coilovers or the bypass shocks?

 

the evo spec king shocks are tuned already and set to perform best with their coil springs. the fox shocks may be cheaper, but as far a customized and pre optimized shocks, the evo spec ones are great.
BUT, i would also like to see what people think of their fox rr shocks and their standard 2.0 shocks. especially their standard shocks, please do tell