I am looking at a set of their BRs for the Impreza wagon and am wondering if anyone has anything to say about them. I found them on the Mach V Motorsports webpage, and I know Mach V advertises in GRM, so I trust that they wouldn't sell shoddy equipment. A little testimonial would be nice tough.
BC = Megan Racing coilovers from what i understand. (BC is the parent company.)
I run/ran their coilovers on my Celica, and was very impressed.
I'll be even more impressed if they're still in good working order after sitting for 2-3 years still attached to the car when i tear back into it this summer. 
They weren't the comfiest thing in the world, but i was running custom spec spring rates and the dampers turned all the way up. Build quality seemed high, i put 20k miles on them with no issues.
Adjustment was easy and smooth.
My ONLY complaint was that the brake line bracket wasn't really shaped right for my car, but that's not anything i cared much about.
But yeah... 20k miles and i beat the car pretty hard. All seems well. Would buy again. I don't know what "BR" means in BC speak, but mine are the "track-spec" or whatever they're calling them these days.
I've heard of a lot of issues with the mazda crowd, but that could be because most of the ms3 guys wonder why it rides like E36 M3 when they dial in all the low.
I'm wary of the BCs. I've also heard of one or two Mazda3/Mazdaspeed3 drivers who have had catastrophic failures with them during street driving. I'll try to dig up the posts. I'm saving up for either Bilstein Sport shocks + Swift springs or KW V3 coilovers for my MS3.
EDIT: It seems most complaints were from an earlier design flaw that was fixed, and was more noise-related than anything (not catastrophic). I'm still not 100% sold on BCs, but in your case I would avoid buying earlier ones, just in case.
Yeah, they would be new. I had heard that they made components for other brand names (didn't know it was for Megan). I may just try to save up the extra few hundred for some KW V1s, but the BCs look like a good entry-level coil-over package...
Ive got a good buddy who runs them on his sti and seems to like them, another good friend with a 1jz powered sc400 has them and absolutely loves them. I don't know much about them other than I thought they catered more to the stance/herrafrush crowd. From what I've heard though a Taiwanese coilover is a Taiwanese coilover no matter what sticker they have on them.
Neon crowd loves them but they are about our only off the shelf choice. In reality they are the same old Chiwanese stuff, fine for street toy use but not great for racing use
BC (I think it stands for Bor Chuan) are fine If you are going for looks. My past concern with them was always quality control and that has improved by a huge amount from just a couple years ago. But dont expect them to be high performance. I borrowed a friends for a while and the two things I noticed is that they dont handle high frequency very well and they are "bouncy".
Industry types will know a lot more than me but the same company that makes BC brand coilovers makes a lot of the other coilovers on the market and they seem to be drop shipped out of the same place.
Feal is selling some overseas coilovers that are similar to BCs, but Bakchis says that he will custom valve and spring the coilovers with actual Swift springs. He also offers one of the only rebuilding services for BC/Ksport/Megan coilovers that I know of for about $120 a corner.
You might also think about custom Feal strut inserts (uses HotBits guts and parts) which offer actual rebound and compression adjustment for just under a grand. I dont want to sound like I am shilling for Feal but if it was my money I would get the good inserts, good quality used springs, and generic sleeves. But I have no interest in scraping pavement so YMMV.
For what it's worth, i was corrected here about 2 years ago, and there IS a difference between KSport/D2 and BC/Megan.
At least, that's what i'm told.
In reply to 92CelicaHalfTrac:
I have been actually impressed by the ksports equipped GD/GG imprezas I have driven. Though I think the springs they ship with are too stiff.
The new black-bodied KSports aren't terrible. 
Not unhappy with KSport "RR" series either.
I think it must depend on the car, I've never heard anything good about ksports on ae86's
ahutson03 wrote: I think it must depend on the car, I've never heard anything good about ksports on ae86's
The AE86 discontent stems from the very early orange body units, and was quite a long time ago.
Unfortunately, it takes years to correct bad press, and only one bad instance to ruin good press for years.
Ah makes sense
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