Koni STRT/Strano
Thanks Sam... and for the record.. I am a FAN of your springs. I purchased my 02 35th LE SS last month w 14K miles.. It still has the decarbons and the Eibach's... floats and bounces like a boat on a choppy lake. Its horrible!! I'll be throwing the Koni yellow, strano's on ASAP...
Thanks for everyones feedback.
Thanks for everyones feedback.
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From: Wichita KS / Rancho San Diego
Anyone running Koni Yellows: I've had mine for about 6 years. I've put about 1000 miles on the car since that time, but the Koni's have never felt anything but super stiff and super harsh. I've pulled out as much dampening as they'll allow over a series of drives and while they've gotten better, the car still rides like a dump truck. I can't imagine this is normal for the Sport shocks. Running Sam's springs too. They're so bad, I'm pricing out some Penske @ our dealer pricing, but before doing that I'd love to get the Koni's working. The car is only a cruising mobile anyway...Koni sports are rebuildable, correct?
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From: Lansing, MI via Bowling Green, KY, Dalton GA, Nashville, TN & Atlanta, GA
I don't get to drive my car very much, but I really like the way it feels with Sam's springs and the Koni Sport shocks. I suspect the tire/wheel combo would make a huge difference in how things feel. Running 20's wrapped with rubber bands would probably ride like crap regardless of other factors. I'm still running the factory wheels and some 20+ year old Goodyear Eagle tires, probably whatever model came on it from the factory. I'm thinking those tires were probably pretty new whenever I put my car in storage, but given their age I'm not really doing any aggressive driving. I didn't drive my car at all from late 2000 until around Thanksgiving of 2017. During that time I changed the springs and shocks, so I can't really recall how it rode in its stock configuration.
The springs and shocks have no bearing on if you can run those wheels and if they rub. The body is the body, the bumpstops limit the downward movement to the same amount of compression regardless of stock spring or lowering springs. Then it is simply a matter of if the wheels and tires touch the body, regardless of anything else.
The rear wheels are +58 are kind of tight and can rub but comes down to really how big the tires are. I run a 10.5 +54 and they can rub some with 315 BFG Rival S's and that's on a Watts link car that has less lateral movement of the body under load and compression.
The rear wheels are +58 are kind of tight and can rub but comes down to really how big the tires are. I run a 10.5 +54 and they can rub some with 315 BFG Rival S's and that's on a Watts link car that has less lateral movement of the body under load and compression.
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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
