I daily drive on Koni struts front and shocks rear, also have 200lb springs in the front and the car lowered about an inch all around. On softest setting the car feels ridiculously soft and even on medium i wish the car was a little stiffer. But ive been street driving this suspension for over a year and i cant even remember what stock felt like (riding like a Cadillac comes to mind). I wouldnt worry about the car falling apart..this is my daily driver and its gone through more than enough treks into Manhattan and the Bronx, home of the car swallowing potholes. Granted i do what i can to avoid hitting them, but if that entails swerving into another car...ill slow down, bite my lip and just let it happen.

With the Koni's,I dont even bother on full stiff because the car understeers like a truck. Whenever i autocross the car i usually goto about 1/4 stiff or the car pushes badly on low speed tight turns. Like Tom said, It indeed took me a while to figure out the best settings to get the car balanced, i think i figured it out on the last event last season... so maybe 6 autocrosses to play around with the settings to my liking.

If anything i want to go with stiffer springs, i just dont want to deal with torsion bars just yet.

 

What would need to be "balanced" when fitting shorter & stiffer springs ?

 

From my discussions on the topic with 200# up front, a 1" drop is either brought back to stock ride height with a 1" spacer or the rear is reindexed 3/4" to compensate. I went with the spacers as not to have to mess with the reindex.

 

*I daily drive on Koni's... and not only that, I daily drive on NORFOLK roads (locals will understand my pain). They are fine for street use, really. Some rough roads will have you inclined to turn them down some, yet many are fine to have cranked up stiff.

*Replacing the T-bars is one of the least-fun jobs to do on a 944.

*Koni>>Boge

*Skip and Jason at Paragon will take good care of you if you call them up to discuss the matter

 

I did, they did (as usual) and I ordered!!!!

 

I have a good used (<4000 mi.) set of Koni Sports for the rear sitting in my basement. I'll let them go cheap. Send me a PM if you're interested.

 

not having tuned very many chassis in this forum, I have extensive experiance with 911s. One thing too consider is how the car will be used. I have found that on daily drivers that see autox and DE events some people will go overboard with shocks and keep stock springs. This can have negative affects by "over-shocking" the springs;such as larger springs can "over-spring" stock shocks. Weather the track or the street you still want a compliant suspension. Too much restriction either way wil be undesirable. Stock springs with konis adjusted on the soft side is nice, as are the Bilstiens. I have driven some very fast "stock" street cars with KYB gas shocks and good sway bars w/poly bushings-on the track. Remember-"LOOSE IS FAST"