Butters944

Ernie: LOVE the look of bumpers without the bumperette things... It's on my bucket list

ernie9468

A closer look ,rear bumper is from A.I.R front DIY modify with Bosch Pilot clear lens & a lot of patience TLC & "!%*words.

pops 83 944

Did you just use the lens out of the Pilot 150 driving lights?

ernie9468

Answer is no....Don't want to hijack __944Newb__post here, if he doesn't mind I'll explain how I did it,but not before he give me the ok.

xsbank

What type of lights do you have in your lower grill?

944Newb

Go for it, I'm still trying to determine what you guys are talking about. I'm guessing different fog lights/rear bumper

ernie9468

Sorry if we lost you,we are talking about removing those ugly monsters call "rubber molding" that came on the US/CDN 944 because of impact law.The front bumper mod is call "Shave Bumper" in order to do this you remove the rubber molding plug the holes refinish the bumper & repaint.But by doing so you are left with a little issue it's the gap that will be left between the egde of the remove molding & the signal ligths casing,and this is where the fun begin,you got to find a way to fill that gap so it will look decent & here lol everybody has his own way of doing it.Same for the rear bumper but instead of tampering with it I just order a fiberglass bumper from A.I.R which is very good quality & had been on the car for some eigth years without developing a single cracks,here again like any fiberglass parts it has to be work on & fit so it will look rigth specially on a street car.Now the aim of this is that, when the mods are done your 944 will look close to a ROW model and be shorter.The fogs ligth on the 944 are what I call candles cause this is about the same amount of ligths which they produce.So I decided to go with Bosche pilote ligths.As with the front bumper mod to do this you'll will need a little fabrication skill since there is no write up on in.The way I did this was by cutting the OE casing in half so that you can re-use the original attachement points -
glueing the Bosh Pilote casing inside it & then shiming the OE casing so at it would aim the ligth at the rigth angle(OUFFF!!! is everybody following me up to date) Those DIY mods were done some eigth years ago & unfortunetly don't have any pics of them.All I can tell you is that the trims to close the gap around the signal ligth was the worst PITA job of this DIY.The pics that follow are of the Pilote ligths beeing taken off & reinstall which take only a couple of minutes to do versus the OE one where you have to jack the car crawl underneath & migth take 1/2 an hour to remove. Btw those Bosh look brand new even though they have been on the car eigth years.

snakoil

sleeve over coil overs like these run like crap.
I used to have those on KYB struts on one of my older cars when i was a student and the ride was harsh and really horrific.
You will not gain better handling with this piece of crap, you will just make it worst.
After a while I got bored and bought eibach pro-kit progressive springs instead and was wishing I bought those since the beginning.

Jason @ Paragon Products

The ride quality here will be largely dependent on the shock and spring rate. KYB's with too much spring rate will indeed give crummy ride quality.

V2Rocket

Jason,

Do you know offhand the outside diameter of that threaded sleeve? Does it just sit on the strut housing under compression?

MAGK944

Those sleeves slide over your strut and rest on the bottom spring perch. You can cut the lower perch down to give you more clearance. This is what they looked like on mine:



...and the rears looked like this (later car):

V2Rocket

Mike, what spring diameter do you use?

MAGK944

2-1/2 inch on those struts, my others use 2-1/4 inch, I'll post pics when there's daylight. Lots of spring rates in both those sizes.

Jason @ Paragon Products

The O.D. is the same between the sealed and non-sealed strut (I can measure it on Monday)...the difference is the I.D. Sealed struts use 55mm I.D. and non-sealed use 52mm. The sleeves just side on the stock lower perch....or some remnant of it if you decide to trim it.