Coilovers $195 for all A1's) Spring quality?

[ansonivan at yahoo.com (Anson Clement)]

I realy could care less about this whole blasted epoxy thing... a pox on epoxy : )
 
My only reservation would be on spring quality, remember w(HOR)e springs? It seems like the required technology to produce high quality (read non-sagging) springs would necesitate (sp?) a higher product price.
 
If I can be assured that the springs are of decent quality I would most certainly spring for a set.
 
Anson - grand master punster

eperson <eperson@students.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>From what I can gather from the instructions on that site, the epoxy is mostly 
to hold the threaded sleeve in place and centered on the shaft rather than to 
fully support the load from the springs. It doesnt look like they even strip 
the paint off the struts before epoxying, so that would seem that they are not 
intending it to support the whole weight of the car. It seems that the old 
spring perches are what the sleeves rest on and presumably provide support. 
The back ones dont even get epoxy, only the fronts. Its a bit hard to tell 
from the small pictures and somewhat vague descriptions, but I believe that's 
what they are trying to say. I was also skeptical of the durability issues 
for daily driving use, and I would feel better if the epoxy wasnt carrying all 
the load. I will agree that there are some great epoxy available, but I would 
only trust them if applied with very careful surface preparation, and with 
accurate tolerances between the strut housing and sleeve. 
This is IMHO, if anyone read it differently, let me know,

Eric Person
86.5 16v


>===== Original Message From bhonnold@pac-cap.com =====
>When it comes to the suspension of a car that is subject to extreme forces
>even in everyday driving the choices should be.
>
>1) Coilover kits that come fully assembled with a shock insert and strut can
>designed for the coilover setup.
>
>2) Factory Strut can modified with MIG or hopefully TIG welded perch.
>
>3) Coilover kit simply resting on the factory perch.
>
>4) Super Duper High Strength Epoxy?.........................
>
>/me shivers
>
>Brian Honnold
>Director of Multifamily Acquisitions
>Pacific Capital Investments
>Phone: 916.773.3300
>Fax: 916.773.3208
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
>> [mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of gregdunn
>> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 9:08 AM
>> Cc: 'scirocco'
>> Subject: Re: Coilovers $195 for all A1's
>>
>>
>>
>> > Your forgetting Larry
>> > that now a days here in the modern world there are epoxies for
>> > everything, with good prep the bond/epoxy is stronger than the base
>> > metals.. assuming mild steel or worse. Brian
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, L F wrote:
>> >
>> > > Sounds like a rather un-tidy arrangement to me....
>> > >
>> > > Larry
>>
>>
>> Yep. I have had epoxy-ported heads (built up the floor on
>> the intake port) on motorcycles for thousands and thousands
>> of miles. How's that for
>> confidence in epoxy? As have many, many others that I
>> personally know
>> about. There are amazing epoxies that do amazing things.
>>
>> gd
>>
>>
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