depami

I love the TEMS on my Supra.

Speedtoys

I loved the concept, hated the manufacturer. The MK3 spring rate is rather high..and the TEMS valve rates on rebound are far too low..theyre a compression only adjustment on that.

Not to mention being stuck with Tokico on spec RX7 racing, and they were a one-weekend lifetime cartridge cost to manage.

Just my two cents.

ROG100

An electric switch in the cabin

IrishLegend

Great news! They may be available by the time I have some $$ in the Porsche fund.

WyattsRide

Thanks Roger for all your work!

With that electric switch and rapidly going from sport to comfort, would I be able to do anything like this with my 928?

ALKada

What a nice upgrade to the suspension this would be. I hope you can get them to make this for our cars!!!

Thanks Roger!

S4ordie

Adaptive electrical upgrade sounds like BIG $$$, but very interesting.

ROG100

Most of the Bilstein strut/shock kits we sell on 997's are adaptive and rear shocks are only $270 each so not that bad.

c_span

I expect these'll be their B16 "damptronic" system, which is based on their PSS10 coilovers iirc but instead of a manual adjuster **** (and about 8 or so possible settings), you get 2 - a softer one and a more sporting one (call them what you will), adjusted electronically via a switch in the cabin. In any case, these are excellent dampers - and my experience is that Bilstein are normally very good at judging their settings (i.e. for a road car it's no great loss to not have all the different adjustability "steps")

The only downside is you need to run a wire in from each unit to a central control unit. It's not wireless (yet..)

Richter12x2

Yowch, I had Tokico Illuminas with 440lb springs on my 2nd Gen RX7 and never had a problem after a couple hundred miles of track and highway driving.
I use Koni yellows now though.

Speedtoys

83 RX5 on the 5-way adjustables..Pro7 class.

Rubbed a lot, and after -1- weekend (about 2hrs of work) you could feel where the overheated shocks were on the car. Filling the shock tube with ATF when you dropped in the cartridge helped a little...

Richter12x2

Yeah these were different - mine was an '87 and it was a fully replacement strut instead of an insert - I wondered how inserts could work as well since you were losing diameter by forcing it to be smaller than the existing strut. I just did some Solo II though, not nearly the same punishment as you were getting in Spec Rx7.

Speedtoys

Well, the same inserts by another vendor (just 3x more in cost) would last a full season.

You could run them in the IT class, but not the Spec class.

SMTCapeCod

ECS on my 3000GT VR4 back in the day. Sure did go from Jeckyll to Hyde with a flip of the switch. The active aero, on the other hand...

Adjustable suspension has come a long way with the reactive/charged fluids.

928mac

Sounds Like a good upgrade Roger.