Shocks & Struts.......
hb4_2000
03-15-2002, 05:07 AM
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF I GOT MONROE SHOCKS OR STRUTS(I KNOW THAT THEY ARE CHEAP THAN A MOFO!) AND LOWERED WITH NEUSPEED SPORTS?....I REALLY CANT AFFORD KONIS AND ALTHOUGH I SAW A KILLER BUY ON TOKICO BLUES,EVERYBODY SAYS THAT TOKICOS ARE NO GOOD,SO I DUNNO WHAT THE HELL TO DO.....I DONT WANT TO LOWER IT WITH STOCK SHOCKS I DO KNOW THAT AND I FIGURE THE MONROES COULD HOLD ME FOR A LITTLE WHILE UNTIL I SAVE UP.......PLEASE SOMEONE FIGURE IT OUT FOR ME,IM TRYIN TO PUT THESE ON MY JOINT NEXT WEEK!!!
Beyond Imagination
03-15-2002, 05:11 PM
I suggest saving up for the Koni's ... You can ride on stock shocks for now until they blow on you, that's what I did with my Skunk coilovers if you don't mind the harsh ride ... Suspension is really important so I suggest doing it right the first time ...
G_racer
03-21-2002, 01:29 AM
Stock shocks wont be bad for right now until u can get the money for some Koni's. Stock usually lasts quite a while actually. Just a harsher ride.
Dezoris
03-21-2002, 02:47 PM
"People commonly ask "why can't I use lowering springs with higher rates on stock shocks?"
If you have learned anything from this lesson, you will now know that the stock shock is valved to dampen a specfic spring rate usually that spring it was designed to work with, by puting a high rate shorter spring on it, it causes two major problems resulting in failure.
1.)Decreased travel (The shock no longer can travel up and down,"compression-rebound" to dampen the spring properly which means you shock is useless, and is the spring is just bouncing up and down.
2.)Over work (the shocks oil inside and valving cause it just bounce and thrash about causing bubbling of the oil and extensive pressure usually causing leaky seals. Since the shock was not valved to dampen a higher rate spring, it just is working many times harder. Basically certain shocks are tuned on a shock dyno to effectively tune them for specific spring rates, our general recommendations on shock spring combos are based off of this. Combos that will play togther and, where the shock is designed to control the springs movment. When the shock cant control the movement of the spring we can see shock failure. which means you are driving a car without shocks This is why we STRESS USE AFTERMARKET SHOCKS WITH LOWERING SPRINGS! "
Ok the monroe shocks are OEM replacements, not specially valved to work with higher rate springs.
Save up the Tockico illuminas will play well with the Neuspeed sports.
If you have learned anything from this lesson, you will now know that the stock shock is valved to dampen a specfic spring rate usually that spring it was designed to work with, by puting a high rate shorter spring on it, it causes two major problems resulting in failure.
1.)Decreased travel (The shock no longer can travel up and down,"compression-rebound" to dampen the spring properly which means you shock is useless, and is the spring is just bouncing up and down.
2.)Over work (the shocks oil inside and valving cause it just bounce and thrash about causing bubbling of the oil and extensive pressure usually causing leaky seals. Since the shock was not valved to dampen a higher rate spring, it just is working many times harder. Basically certain shocks are tuned on a shock dyno to effectively tune them for specific spring rates, our general recommendations on shock spring combos are based off of this. Combos that will play togther and, where the shock is designed to control the springs movment. When the shock cant control the movement of the spring we can see shock failure. which means you are driving a car without shocks This is why we STRESS USE AFTERMARKET SHOCKS WITH LOWERING SPRINGS! "
Ok the monroe shocks are OEM replacements, not specially valved to work with higher rate springs.
Save up the Tockico illuminas will play well with the Neuspeed sports.
amoney805
03-22-2002, 04:42 PM
Go with the kyb agx, i got those with the nuespeed sports and the ride is sweet. Theyre not that expensive either.
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