a95gsx
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- Apr 26, 2006
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B'ham,
Alabama
MORE PICS IN POST #8
Thought I'd throw this project of mine up since I haven't posted much, ever. Here's a southern style take on how to do coilovers using technology thats popular here in the south (that'd be circle track racing, boy).
Basically circle track shocks like this threaded body QA1 are cheap, readily available, fairly high quality, and come in a HUGE variety of damping rates - both compression and rebound. Most are upside down mountable too. Dyno sheets are shipped with the shocks on request by many for the ones who can benefit from that info. These QA1's are even user rebuildable and revalveable.
Since our 2g's 'struts' are really just shocks, I figured why not and machined up an adapter for the bottom (see pics). Just have to weld up a plate for the top mount. 1g strut cars need not apply this idea. Now that 2g's are getting cheap I don't mind hacking up the strut mount a bit. The upper monoball mount takes care of the movement the shock undergoes as the suspension moves too, and it is loaded radially instead of axially to boot. Soon as I finish up my FMIC install I'll be back onto these.
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Thought I'd throw this project of mine up since I haven't posted much, ever. Here's a southern style take on how to do coilovers using technology thats popular here in the south (that'd be circle track racing, boy).
Basically circle track shocks like this threaded body QA1 are cheap, readily available, fairly high quality, and come in a HUGE variety of damping rates - both compression and rebound. Most are upside down mountable too. Dyno sheets are shipped with the shocks on request by many for the ones who can benefit from that info. These QA1's are even user rebuildable and revalveable.
Since our 2g's 'struts' are really just shocks, I figured why not and machined up an adapter for the bottom (see pics). Just have to weld up a plate for the top mount. 1g strut cars need not apply this idea. Now that 2g's are getting cheap I don't mind hacking up the strut mount a bit. The upper monoball mount takes care of the movement the shock undergoes as the suspension moves too, and it is loaded radially instead of axially to boot. Soon as I finish up my FMIC install I'll be back onto these.
Placed in newbie cause of my posting status