[Shotimes] Eibach springs with stock struts?

[Dave Garber]

On a flat surface, they ride fine, so I can see why they would work good
for track work. But, for the daily grind back and forth to work, the
weak rebound is unacceptable. I have to take RT 51 to and from work and
it's barely better than a dirt road, with lots of pot holes and dips. On
one particular dip, I can hit my head on the headliner it bounces so
bad! On the same road with the 99, you barely notice that dip.

A guy that lives close to me has a set of near-new stock replacements
for $75.00 I'm going to try on the front. As simple as it is to change
out the fronts, I figure it's worth a shot. If it improves, great. If
not, I'll get the Tokico's. 


Dave Garber



-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
[mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Ron Porter
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 2:42 PM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Eibach springs with stock struts?

Key thing is that, besides the front struts being manufactured in a
different country, is that the front KYBs are also physically smaller.
KYB needs to do a big more tweaking on those front GR-2s. FWIW, the
compression rate is fine, and they do well on the track.

Buried in my old posts somewhere is a listing of spring rates for
factory & aftermarket springs, and the rears have a softer rate in every
case, IIRC.

Ron Porter