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Re: SPAX shocks

To: spridgets@Autox.Team.Net, mikeg@vicnet.net.au
Subject: Re: SPAX shocks
From: "Peter Samaroo" <mrbugeye@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 07:36:57 PDT
Reply-to: "Peter Samaroo" <mrbugeye@hotmail.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
Thanks Mike,
  The ads for the kit from frontline spridget state that the shocks are 
almost vertical has anyone tried these and are they better?
They list for 155pounds UK. Does anyone import this kit into the US?

>From: "Mike Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
>To: "Peter Samaroo" <mrbugeye@hotmail.com>, <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: SPAX shocks
>Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 10:44:21 +1000
>
>I have the Spax kit from Mini-Mania. In all honesty I think it is a 
total
>waste
>of time. I've gone back to standard armstrong shocks with 40wt fork oil 
and
>it is significantly better.
>
>The problem is the mounting angle - it is 45 degrees or worse. It 
basically
>doesn't do much damping at all.
>
>I'm playing around with other schemes to remount the Spax, until I get 
it
>right I'm staying with armstrongs.
>
>Mike
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Peter Samaroo <mrbugeye@hotmail.com>
>To: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Date: Thursday, May 28, 1998 2:05 AM
>Subject: SPAX shocks
>
>
>>Fellow Spidgeteers,
>>  I was thinking of installing the rear SPAX shock conversion in my
>>Bugeye while I was changing the rear springs. Has anyone done this and
>>what do you think of them. MiniMania, Moss and VB all sell a kit, are
>>they all the same kit or is one better than the other. At what angle
>>do the shock lie and do the kits fit right in?
>>Thanks,
>>Peter Samaroo
>>'59 Bugeye
>>
>
>



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