Like many others, I have the Eibach pro-kit + Illumina (F/R = 3) + L-tuned sways (sways set at medium for now) + stock tires. In my opinion, this setup is great for daily usage and even some canyon runs (usually i'd dial up the damping, i.e. make the shocks stiffer for canyon runs). Of course don't expect your car to ride on rails with this setup, however this setup does help reduce much of the understeering and body roll and dive/squat you'd experience say with stock parts. Now a lot of people have a false impression that reduced body roll translate into an awesome canyon carver, but I dont think that's necessarily the case. You can greatly reduced body roll just by simply having really hard springs and nothing else, but that's not a great twisties setup at all. I think for your taste, you should really look for something that would give you overall balance, and I personally feel that my current setup does give me overall balance with enough adjustability to change the drive dynamics of the car should I feel like doing some hard canyon runs. I feel that the one weakness in my set up right now is the tires... I've taking my car to the twisties a good number of times both when it was totally stock and when it's been modded. The difference between stock and modded is definitely noticable, but now with the new suspension setup, I feel that the car is capable of doing more but I feel that the stock tires aren't giving me the feedback and confidence to try to push the limit of the suspension. Hopefully a wider contact patch would help solve some of that problem.
You'd get a bunch of different answers as to what is the best setup for the buck, and I wish I could give you a more definite answer with real data to back it up (dropped and broke my G-Tech meter) so I was never able to get any handling G's # for reference. All I can tell you is I am very please with my current setup and most important, it didn't cost me very much to do this.
just my 2 cents, Hope this helps.
