the 951 see-saw
09-04-2003 | 06:38 AM
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From: The Heart of it All
Originally posted by car_slave
I just put the KLA rear coil-overs on my lowered car. Well they come with ten inch springs which puts the adjusters up a little too high into the wheel wells, so at some point I want to buy some eight inch 200lb springs to better match the 250lbs welts up front with stock torsion bars (not sure what they are, the car came with 26.8 mm front, and 18mm rear sways, plus 951 A-arms) although the car drives fine as is for now (hardly driven it yet). So I am now selling a brand new set of Koni yellow rears if anyone is interested, I bought them to fix my bouncing rear end and then came to the conclusion that the torsion bars were getting old. They only have one thousand miles them.
I just put the KLA rear coil-overs on my lowered car. Well they come with ten inch springs which puts the adjusters up a little too high into the wheel wells, so at some point I want to buy some eight inch 200lb springs to better match the 250lbs welts up front with stock torsion bars (not sure what they are, the car came with 26.8 mm front, and 18mm rear sways, plus 951 A-arms) although the car drives fine as is for now (hardly driven it yet). So I am now selling a brand new set of Koni yellow rears if anyone is interested, I bought them to fix my bouncing rear end and then came to the conclusion that the torsion bars were getting old. They only have one thousand miles them.
So, mine are arriving today, I may install them tonite if I can't stand to wait until saturday. Did you see any change in ride height at all?
Tifo
09-04-2003 | 08:04 PM
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one more thing about the coilovers. let me make sure I understand. Do they mount with the adjustment ring/nut for the springs towards the top? If so is that so that you have clearance with the spring and the body? And if you had 8" springs then the adj. ring/nut would be lower and have even more clearance, right?
09-04-2003 | 08:32 PM
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From: The Heart of it All
Originally posted by Super Dave
one more thing about the coilovers. let me make sure I understand. Do they mount with the adjustment ring/nut for the springs towards the top? If so is that so that you have clearance with the spring and the body? And if you had 8" springs then the adj. ring/nut would be lower and have even more clearance, right?
one more thing about the coilovers. let me make sure I understand. Do they mount with the adjustment ring/nut for the springs towards the top? If so is that so that you have clearance with the spring and the body? And if you had 8" springs then the adj. ring/nut would be lower and have even more clearance, right?
You are correct. I just instsalled mine. There would not be enough clearance with the spring on top. I'm going to post a quick initial review in a separate thread.
Tifo
