Koni STR.T FINALLY available for 93-02 f-bodies?! (well, almost...)
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And no, no lower perch like the front Sports.
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I am truly surprised, plus it looks fantastic and I DD the car. I wish I would have taken the dive when I had my old car instead of the horrible eibachs that were on it. They were bouncy, stiff... miserable.
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What spring best mates with the STR.T fronts? I have yellow SA in the rear. Using stock SLP progressives from 1999 that probably need to be changed.
Any merit to this complaint about the spring perches being wrong?
https://www.amazon.com/Koni-8250-100...ustomerReviews
If they don't have them then.. I don't understand. OEM ones need to be reused?
Any merit to this complaint about the spring perches being wrong?
https://www.amazon.com/Koni-8250-100...ustomerReviews
If they don't have them then.. I don't understand. OEM ones need to be reused?
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What spring best mates with the STR.T fronts? I have yellow SA in the rear. Using stock SLP progressives from 1999 that probably need to be changed.
Any merit to this complaint about the spring perches being wrong?
https://www.amazon.com/Koni-8250-100...ustomerReviews
If they don't have them then.. I don't understand. OEM ones need to be reused?
Any merit to this complaint about the spring perches being wrong?
https://www.amazon.com/Koni-8250-100...ustomerReviews
If they don't have them then.. I don't understand. OEM ones need to be reused?
BMR or Strano springs are the most common to be mated with those shocks.
As far as that Amazon review...yeah everything that was said is true/or has happened at least once. His car sat 1-1.5 inches higher than stock, I've only seen that once on this forum. It could've been caused by not installing the springs correctly with the pigtails of the springs getting mated into the lower spring isolator and/or shock mount incorrectly. The part in the review where he mentions that he had to modify the lower spring perch thing where the spring sits into, that's with every front Koni STR.t shock for these cars. Not sure why Koni switched up the dimensions on that part but some grinding is required to make it fit properly. Take a look at this thread for more info on that...
https://ls1tech.com/forums/suspensio...-6-5-15-a.html
With the shocks not fully extending on their own, that happened to me when I had my front Str.t shocks too. One fully extended on its own while the other didn't. I called Koni and they said it was fine, it didn't affect the valving of the shock at all. They said it might not extend because the gas pressure might not be able to overcome the static friction of the new seals or something?? Idk
Also Koni yellows are the only shock that I know of that has an adjustable spring perch built into the shock body. OEM ones nor the Str.t shocks have an adjustable spring perch like the yellows have.
For all the above issues, that's why I like Bilstein. They're usually more stable and have less issues compared to the Str.t's. Plus most people like a "bolt on" product and don't like grinding things to make it work or having one shock extend on its own while the other doesn't. Don't get me wrong, the Str.t shocks are good shocks by all means, just Bilstein usually carries a very solid, reputable product behind their name. They're hard to beat IMO
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What spring best mates with the STR.T fronts? I have yellow SA in the rear. Using stock SLP progressives from 1999 that probably need to be changed.
Any merit to this complaint about the spring perches being wrong?
https://www.amazon.com/Koni-8250-100...ustomerReviews
If they don't have them then.. I don't understand. OEM ones need to be reused?
Any merit to this complaint about the spring perches being wrong?
https://www.amazon.com/Koni-8250-100...ustomerReviews
If they don't have them then.. I don't understand. OEM ones need to be reused?
Then let's move on to the fact that people do very, very stupid things sometimes. I had one complaint like this. One. And you know what? The guy screwed it up. Somehow, through a long debate I discovered that for some reason one shock was missing it's included perch. So the fellow took one of his OEM perches, which is shaped VERY differently, and installed it on one shock. And what do you know, the car was sky high *ON THAT ONE SIDE*. I'm not even sure how I figured out he had done that, but once I knew it, made perfect sense. Well, not as much sense as I understood what was happening on his car.
Understand that Koni STR.T's are NOT in any way on the level of Sports. They use a much cheaper more simple spring perch. Hell they aren't even made on the continent. But no, there isn't a 1-1.5" height gain vs. any other shock, that's just silly. And it would have cars on my springs sitting as high, or HIGHER than stock? Please, that's clearly not the case.
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www.stranoparts.com --814-849-3450
Results matter. Talk is cheap. We are miles beyond the success anyone else has had with the 4th gens, and C5, C6, C7 Corvettes,
10 SCCA Solo National Championships, 2008 Driver of they Year, 2012 Driver of Eminence
13 SCCA Pro Solo Nationals Championships
2023 UMI King of the Mountain Champion