from:larrybsp@aol.cxom (Larry Stark)
Tony,
A word of caution about Bilsteins. Their competition
shocks are very
aggressive in jounce and rebound damping. Good for a race track, not the
street or an autocross. I switched from Bilsteins to Koni's because I
couldn't keep my tires on the ground on anything but a dead smooth autocross
course. The Bilstein rebound control is too stiff. There was a big difference
I could feel after I made the switch. The Koni's being softer were more
compliant, kept the rubber on the road and made the car more drivable. As an
aside I'm now using the Koni's on road race courses and they work fine
everywhere but at turn one at Laguna. I don't think even my Bilsteins
have enough rebound control there. FWIW.
Larry
In a message dated 1/5/01 7:06:27 AM Pacific Standard Time,
atabacco@california.com writes:
<< Subj: Re: Koni shock question
Date: 1/5/01 7:06:27 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: atabacco@california.com (Anthony Tabacco)
Sender: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
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All this is making me think I'll stick with the Bilsteins. They are still
hanging in there at 45,000 hard miles. I was think of doing a swap to Koni
but for a 99 Miata Sport ( with I guess a bigger barrel shock body) that
involves finding surplus spring perches from a set of non-sport shocks and
swapping these for the OEM perch. Apparently, Koni is now making a shock
designed for the Bilstein equipped 99+, but whether this used the stock
spring perch I do not know.
Tony >>
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