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Old January 11th 2004, 18:41
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Question Coil-over front suspension

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/redlinerenn...acersEdge.html
The speedster will be for weekend street/road course and hill climbs.
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Old January 11th 2004, 22:03
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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.

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Old January 12th 2004, 07:07
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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.

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Old January 12th 2004, 22:37
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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
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Old January 13th 2004, 01:18
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Sounds interesting, where did you get the Coilovers from Kerscher from?
And how much.
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Old January 13th 2004, 02:24
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www.kerscher-tuning.de for the front coilovers, mbt-engineering.de for the rear. Cheers
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Old March 1st 2004, 04:27
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Modified spring plates

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.
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Old March 31st 2004, 18:48
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i've been pondering coil overs...

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

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Old March 31st 2004, 23:07
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No torsion bar but fitted the torque bar from CSP with the use of uniball,and Gb643 front transmission mount.
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Old April 1st 2004, 09:47
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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.
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Old April 6th 2004, 00:31
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translating...

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..

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