coil over shocks

Has anybody have any experance with coilovers. They are not that expensive. I tried to order new struts for my 72, in the Bilstien flavor and all they had is the coil over virity. Unless I go for the 77 year style strut. I think the newer strut would work.However I am intrieged buy the coilover set up. Some questions I have is what happens to the T bars? Are they lighter.And I am concerned about unsprung weight.Also what kind of spring choices are there. 'mybee thats the hidden fee' Is it like putting a chevy motor in my car. ruining originality
' thread on a another list'. Porsche put alot of bucks in the Tbar devolpment.I dont want to hack this car up but as technolgy improves why not take advantage of it.

Not sure why you would want to spend the $$ to put coilovers on your car, unless its a race car.
My understanding is that the primary reason for coilovers is to get a suspension stiffer than you could get with the largest available torsion bars (torsion bar size is limited, but you can certainly get them more stiff than you would ever need for the street).
On a street car, I don't think coilovers would get you anything, other than a lightening of your wallet.

P did put a lot of time and money in bar cars, but they also ran C/O setups in their race cars
The purpose of doing coilovers is the ease of adjustability. The ohlins or JRZ set ups are not inexpensive but easy to tune. My experience is with Ohlins on bikes and everything is up for grabs when setting them up. The less expensive C/O conversion (hats,rings&spings) will still make it easy to dial in ride height and do a fast corner balance. A interesting thought is that with the bars a strut brace is a marginal upgrade. With the C/O I have heard that they become much more important. The idea being the bars act on the bottom of the suspension while the C/O puts the load on the top mount. On the street it should pass the feels good, impresses your friends and looks cool test. When at the track check your watch for a true measure.

When Porsche used coilovers in its racing versions of 911's, the cars where reinforced in the areas of stress created by this conversion. Many coilovers kits do not take this into consideration since the stress points of converting are all different. Your car being a light car, I can't see how larger bars, adjustable sway bars, and stiffer shocks can't give you a ride that handles.