SPAX Shocks

[Rob]

Anybody ever heard from SPAX shocks ?
They are from the UK, and I just found out that they carry adjustable
rear shocks for my '70 Standard. ('Adjustable Sprint G482')

Any experiences ? Good / Bad ? Pricing ?

JRP here in Canada carries them, so I'll be giving them a call soon.

Thanks !

Rob.

[oicdn]

I've seen a couple guys with them on WRXs and they seem to love them. They seem to be pretty damn pricey though.

I've readon some reviews in Rice magazines and they're supposedly comparable to Bilstein HDs but with an external dampening resivoir....

[kafer.chris]

there top spec on par with koni ..

good shocks i have a set on the front of my beetle a red 9 ezi kit seem good

[DORIGTT]

Here are excerpts from email 'talks' with a Kaefer Kup racer in Germany that helped me with some good info.

"I only used SPAX G616 for the front - for the rear I used Bilstein shocks
and Porsche 944 turbo torsions bars (more due to evolution than any other
reason).
Clearance is not a problem - lots of space left...
The 1st and 2nd place of the German Boxerpokal 2004 (www.boxerpokal.de) went
to 1200, not 1303 Beetles :-)
But it's easier to adjust the front suspension of a 1303 - takes quite some
time to find a good setup for the 1200 front shocks."

And...

"
For SPAX racing suspension you can look here:
http://www.spax.co.uk/SPAX-competition-page.html
To use them in a beetle you have to remove the torsion bars and replace them
by a axle with ball bearings (hard to explain - especially in english).

I used one 19mm anti roll bar in the front and a 14mm one (Porsche 944) in
the rear for hill races and added a second one for track racing
(http://www.csp-shop.de/cgi-bin/shop2/shop_main.cgi?func=start&wkid=69585125
440)."


I hope this helps you as it helped me.

DORIGTT