What brand of street shocks do you have?
01-20-2007, 01:29 PM
Post: #32
 
Assasin,

Sounds about right for a drift/track car. Remember I'm trying to help Apolan out here aswell and from what I gather he wants something thats alot more streetable. Still its all up to personal taste, I know people who've got 8kg F/7kf R setups with stiff shocks and call it perfect for their daily driver. And in deed, in this country the roads are of such quality that aslong as you stick to tarmac, your only enemy is those damned speed bumps they put in everywhere.

But once the roads get of lower quality, you just don't want to go to those types of springs if you want some streetability left.

As for your KONI suggestions. So far I've only looked into using the AE92 KONIs for the front which also are topadjustable. I've heard about the MR2s. There are some other options, CircuitFreak had shortstroke KONIs that where gasfilled on his car for awhile, I haven't got a clue where they came from.
I don't have any sensible opinion about which one is the best choice, I do know that in the end, you can have them revalved anyways so if you want you can make any KONI shock to the specifications you wish. Can be expensive though.
Zax here on the forum ran AE92 KONIs with his shortstroke conversion combined with 8kg springs and was very pleased with the result.

For the rear, I heard about the Camaro option but I also heard some changes are needed because the Camaro shocks don't fit directly onto the hachi's rear axle. But they indeed are supposed to be the right lenght for short stroke.
I still use my AE86 (don't know the type number, its on the board somewhere) rear shocks which aren't short stroke. They function just fine, you don't really have the stroking problems that you have at the front as there is plenty of room in the rear. The only problem is that when the car comes off the ground, the springs come loose and that is an MOT failure over here. So before the end of summer I'll have to replace them with something with a shorter stroke.

Owh and KONIs are easily obtainable here, most dealerships sell them. Biggest problem is that they don't know much about these older cars and that if they order directly from the factory, you tent to pay extra high prices. Look around on ebay and such and you can often find a good deal on KONIs from a surplus stock (though I got bitten once so I'm a little more carefull now).

Greetz,

Bastiaan "mux213" Olij

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