Re: oil pressure and adjustable konis!

[Josh Clark <joshc@garden.net>]

On Tue, 8 Jul 1997 23:08:18 -0600 "I.Mannix" <mannix@privatei.com> wrote:

>  Also, all you out there with the
> >adjustable konis, do you find your's get out of adjustment at all?
> 
> Not mine - they've never moved.

hmm, I must've messed something up then.  BTW: what's the firmest you ut it at?  
The Koni pamphlet says to stay under 1 full turn, does it even make a difference after 
that?

> >I have the car sitting pretty low now (I can barely fit my fingers onto
> >the tops of the
> >tires!) and it works great but I think I need some more time with it and
> >then to set it a
> >bit higher.  With such stiff springs, do you think I should just try a
> >rear sway bar?
> 
> Well, first off, what spring rates did you choose?  I'd say yes to a
> swaybar (no to hollow, seen a couple crack), almost regardless of rate.
> Some schools of thought do try to eliminate swaybars through springs, but
> that's a REALLY stiff spring.  What rates are you using?

300 ft, 250 rear.  Pretty stiff.  I think the front hardly leans at all, but I don't have 
sticky enough tires to really test it.  It just starts drifting when I think the car would 
lean with stickier tires (I have Dunlop SP4000 195/50s)
 
> The stressbar will not affect lean, FWIW.  It will simply stiffen the body
> a bit (ok, it might cause *slightly* less lean, IE, millimeters).  I'd get

right right

> swaybars.  I am not of the "no front bar" school, especially on bumpy roads
> - by the time you have a spring stiff enough to compensate for lack of
> swaybar, it is skipping all over the place on bumpy roads.  A swaybar
> allows softer (relative) springs with the reduced roll of a bar.  IMHO, of
> course (well you can't really do what a swaybar does with springs, but you
> can mimic a big bar with stiff springs).  Anyhow.  If nothing else, stock
> front bar, Neuspeed 28mm rear bar.  Let us know what rate springs you are
> using!

I don't know, I really like the hollow bars and seeing them on a couple of cars and 
experiencing the difference in Jay's ride after putting all that Autotech stuff on, I am 
convinced.  They sure are lighter!  I think the springs are a bit mroe than the 
Neuspeed "race" springs, am I correct?  Aren't they 260 something lbs front?
thanks
 
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