996apple

Ok bought the 951. Now I need to get ready for the upcoming DE. Rear of the car is bouncy what shocks do you guys recommend?
And is this an easy DIY replacement for the rears? Thanks

billindenver

Paragon Products. Koni replacements....IMHO

Porschefile

Ditto. The nice thing is Paragon offers the option to have them do the Koni conversion to a set of struts (for the front), and you just send them yours back as cores. That will save you a lot of time and trouble.

buxton

+3. Koni's and it is an easy replacement. And you can get a 15% discount if you are a PCA member.

chris951

I was in the same boat. Paragon Konis or Bilsteins? I am going to go with Koni inserts because they are adjustable. How do you adjust the inserts for the struts? Do you have a **** on the top?

GeorgeNZ

Do you guys have the Koni double adjustable inserts over there? I was going to go down that route but ended up getting a wet re-build with bump and rebound adjustment.

alex_cristocea

I have convertet my FS with kony and took me almost a day.Is not that easy as it seems.Anyway buy kony there are great shocks

alex_cristocea

and after that if you want to adjust for hard you may want to buy a strut bar.

M758

Rears are easy to replace.

Remove rear tires and then pull off shock held on by upper and lower bolt. Caution is the lower one can be REALLY tight.

Koni's are a good choice if you want to keep things stock or close to stock. If you have plans of moding the suspension you can still use the Koni's if you keep the mods to a minimum. If you want a really nice track suspesion you would want something different.

87944turbo

+4 for Koni's and 968 M030 rear sway bar

gt37vgt

I've always had konis as there cheaper at the start on on the car already. and always wanted biltiens the the bilteins have better seperation from low to high speed valving meaning you can get a better ride/handle and the car is not so upet by little bumps . also the beilteins are far more robust when you rebuild them ater ten years it costs less than 100 each when the thicker body allowa you to weld on the out side easy or set up height ajustment with circlips (ultra cost effective ) when i've had my konis rebuilt they have cost 80% of purchase price . i should have thrown them in the bin. all my friends have simlar conplants

GeorgeNZ

All depends what model of Koni you're talking about - the yellow sports are not their only product offering. I believe you can get a double adjustable cartridge for the front struts ala the paragon conversion or geta a custom wet build with your choice of valving if you don't want to get into their race shocks. I'd suggest that tech support and service are more important than this brand vs another.

gt37vgt

everything accept the race konis is junk and has less support than bilstein at least here in Oz

billindenver

Junk? I'm afraid I can't agree with you. Many, many races have been won running on that junk. There is certainly better to be had if you have the extra money to spend...but junk is far from accurate.

gt37vgt

well on a budget of bilstein PSS9's so road/race spec the konis i see are not much chop but as for the race konis nothing bad to say . shiny konis good painted konis bad think there is maybe more koni knowledge in your part of the world.