Expensive Shocks

[enzia35]

Re: Expensive Shocks

Easiest way: replace everything. New shock mounts, new nuts, new insulator. Just toss the old shocks away.

I learned that from here.

[Slowside]

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Easiest way: replace everything. New shock mounts, new nuts, new insulator. Just toss the old shocks away.

I learned that from here.

I completely agree.

[WarShrike]

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When I did the rebuild on my car I did a full suspension overhaul. It cost me a bit of cash, but the car rides way better now than it did before.

[ACiFiC]

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I recently got a Miata, and have been looking through the forums for it. People are dropping 1.5-3k on coilovers and thinking it's cheap.

miata ftw!

and yeah i agree with you and bird. looking into BC coils for the eunos, i wish camaro's had more options for suspension.

[pace2006]

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miata ftw!

and yeah i agree with you and bird. looking into BC coils for the eunos, i wish camaro's had more options for suspension.

Coilovers are an option for Fbodies. You just have to either shell out the same cash as you would for other car coilovers or go with an adapter kit. KW, GC, and Edelbrock are just a few examples I can think of.

[Hib Halverson]

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For the 4G F-cars coil-over-shock assemblies only make sense in the front.

Not all the coil-overs out there have enough travel for cars which are lowered.

My 01 is lowered about 1 3/8-in. all around and I couldn't use the Edelbrock coilovers because they only had 3/16-in travel. The front end was bottoming all the time.

I ended up with QA1 double-adjustable coil-overs with Eibach springs in the front and QA1 DA's and Global West constant rate springs in the rear.

The Eibach/Bilstein combination I had before was good and the QA1/Eibach/Global West combo is even better. Right now I'm running 7 clicks compression and 5 rebound.

[ACiFiC]

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Coilovers are an option for Fbodies. You just have to either shell out the same cash as you would for other car coilovers or go with an adapter kit. KW, GC, and Edelbrock are just a few examples I can think of.

I think i had read before that are cars were pretty heavy for coilovers.

[pace2006]

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I think i had read before that are cars were pretty heavy for coilovers.

Not sure where you read that, but cars much heavier than fbodies do fine with coilovers.

Suspension travel can be limited by certain setups, even after stiffer spring rates are used. Although there is a guy on ls1tech that modified his front shock mounts to allow for more travel with his Koni/GC setup.