Coil-over front suspension

[kiwivw]

Hi All,

Alex and Rich,
You both have/had coil over suspensions, or to anyone else running coil-overs in the front.
How do they compare to a stock suspension setup?
I'm considering either the design 9 coil-overs or koni reds for the front.

Any comments would be great.
I'm aready going with leda coil-overs in the rear.
http://www.homestead.com/redlinerennsport/RacersEdge.html
The speedster will be for weekend street/road course and hill climbs.

[Alex]

I can not comment on the ride but the install is painless and it is sure convinient to have proper high adjustabilty and a shock that I can adjust even when the shock is mounted.

Rich will have to let yuou know about the ride.....I will not know for another 3-5 months.

Alex

[ricola]

Well, the Legend kit I had meant that the top arms clashed with the springs. That aside, the ride was better than stock (softer), much less skittish as it rode the road better. Braking was also better but dive was noticable, the front went down considerably, even grounding my air scoop on occasion. The height/damping ease of adjustment was great too.

Rich

[SilverBullet]

Coilovers from Kerscher infront and rear from MBT. Both are very easy to adjust in ride height and both shocks are adjustable. Front is from Koni yellow( top adjustable) and rear from MBT is also adjustable by a turning knob. When both adjusted to "soft" ride is a little firmer than stock, when adjusted to max "hard", it corners like on rails but you'll feel every part of the road! A 10min job to adjust height and stiffness! Very convinient :)

[kiwivw]

Sounds interesting, where did you get the Coilovers from Kerscher from?
And how much.

[SilverBullet]

www.kerscher-tuning.de for the front coilovers, mbt-engineering.de for the rear. Cheers :)

[Alex]

Ehhh,

Kerscher does not have coilovers for balljoint beam AC VWs. They only have them for Supers.

Alex

[MattKab]

Yeah, the Kerscher 'coil-overs' are adjustable McPherson struts! and are proper bo! They use Eibach and Koni consumables.

I had the crack with Leda at the NEC Autosport Show last weekend and there double ball end, dial adjustable spring hieght and damping option does look a fantastic prospect for the back of my '03 and the price seemed so good, I can't remember it. Are you getting your coil-overs from Leda direct? How much? :)

Matt

[kiwivw]

I'm going to get mine from here:
http://www.homestead.com/redlinerennsport/RacersEdge.html
I have 944T trailing arms and will need the adapters they have.

[brent]

Hello,can anyone tell me if there is another company other than MBT
that makes the uniball kit.This replaces the spring plates when running coil over shocks
They make a very nice kit but is quite pricey.$490 Euro plus $90 Euro freight.
Cheers

[Angelo Amato]

what do you guys running it do about the torsion bars? leave in ? take out ? what ??

cheers

[SilverBullet]

No torsion bar but fitted the torque bar from CSP with the use of uniball,and Gb643 front transmission mount. :)

[Shadowbug]

anyone use the CIP coilover kit? I'm thinking I might go that direction with my front end.
I'm assuming they're adjustable, cause I want to lower the front just a little bit more and still have a decent ride.

therwise I'll have to torch the front suspension and a complete custom a-arm front suspention.

[cs01_510]

Are any of you guysin the US who order from MBT engineering or Kerscher? I cannot read or speak german.. :(

Do you guys translate it or simply live in Europe or speak/read German.. ;)

Thanks for the help..

Catalino

[boygenius]

Have you tried e-mailing them. They probably have someone that works for them that knows english. You can also use bablefish to translate the web pages and e-mail.

[MattKab]

When I email Kerscher, Emmi replies in English.

Info@kerscher-tuning.de

[SuperRSi]

Uwe at MBT speaks English and is prompt on Email requests. I just received my rear Uni-ball set-up yesterday. From time of order to post office delivery took about one month. I will post pictures once we get the frame (tube Manx) on the ground this week. I am using this system with a Red9 Design kit. If anyone can use them I have an extra set of stainless bars for the front torsion replacement that are 2 inches narrowed.

I have gotten many items from Kerscher, they speak English, prefer faxes, respond with faxes and the parts once again take about one month from order to receipt.

Payment for MBT is with bank wire. I had some minor issues with credit card on Kerscher because I did not call my card company first and tell them the German order/charge was coming. Call ahead. The banks are jicky now with internet theft.

Thanks,

Randy

[SilverBullet]

Yes talk to Uwe via email, he's helpful. Got my 993 brakes conversion from him and the monoball setup too. :)