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Old Mar 24, 2004 | 07:34 AM
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How is the ride?
What is your dampering setting?
what is your height adjusted to?

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Old Mar 24, 2004 | 08:01 AM
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How is the ride?
---Rough, don't buy these if you are concerned about ride stiffness. On a smooth perfect road you will hardly notice a difference, but if there is any sort of imperfection in the surface you will know about it. That is mainly due to the pillow ball mounts (metal on metal). I can feel the paint strips in the road.....literally.

What is your dampering setting?

My dampening is set to 12/15, but even at 1/15 you will still feel stuff.

what is your height adjusted to?

I have a tight two finger all the way around.

I wouldn't advise you to get these if the roads in your area suck. IE--lots of big potholes, concrete pavement with expansion joints, bumpy....Overall I am pleased with my suspension set up, and I have just gotten used to the ride being crappy at times. The only analogy is have you ever watched like the jap touring car series....notice when they hit a bump the whole car moves with it.....yea that is what it is like.

here are some pics......



Old Mar 24, 2004 | 08:25 AM
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I'm not worried about stiffness. South florida is not to bad on roads.

You have the rears at the stiffest setting, could that be why it is so harsh?

On the ride height I was looking for the position of the b1/b2 seats? I just received mine today and I want to have an idea where to seats are positioned.

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Old Mar 24, 2004 | 09:07 AM
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12/15 was meant as...12 out of 15 clicks, not 12/15 front/rear.

I am not familiar with b1/b2, I am assuming that you are talking about your collars. The spring seat collar, the spring seat lock collar, and the lower lock collar. I am not sure where I had those set when I installed them, but I just made sure that they were all even. It doesn't really matter because you will need to to a great deal of adjusting inorder to get the ride height you want due to the spring settling and such. If you are doing the install yourself I can send you a write up that I did for another guy on the orgy (kcgc187) he seemed to be pretty pleased with it. it took me close to 3 months to finally get my car sitting exactly the way I wanted it. Now I am within 1/8th of an inch to level all the way around.
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that write up would be great.

thanks
Old Mar 24, 2004 | 10:40 AM
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that write up would be great.

thanks

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Old Mar 24, 2004 | 10:46 AM
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