well, today......i decided to set the shocks to their firmest setting on all 4 corners.....
me after driving it = :wrench
completely different animal, it rides pretty much like my friends Prelude with a Ground Control/Eibach coil over kit.......but with leather, and its RWD.......lol
you can feel EVERYTHING on the road, its awesome
some install notes:
1. if youre doing the fronts go find yourself some old T-Bird shocks at the junkyard and cut those, they look a lot more solid than the monroe shocks......i got some off of a '94-'95 T-Bird......
2. seek out the T-Bird whose lower control arms have been taken out and all you have to do is take off the 3 top nuts
3. heres the most important thing about getting the T-Bird shocks: you get a really nice dust cover (similar to the one that comes with the rear Koni shocks) , AND a very nice rubber bump stop, which i used on my install......now the condition of these may vary, mine were in good condition, bump stop looked new.
4. on the rear shock, were they mount on top, i could only run the bottom top bushing.....make sense?.....theres no way you can put the top-top bushing (inside trunk) , then the washer, and then put the nut on.....i had no threads left to put the nut on......so out went the top bushing........im running the stock shock mount (with the middle cut out...), maybe thats why......
5. i did have a pair of solid mounts and poly bushings, but decided against them once i saw how everything was gonna go together.......the stock mount is bigger and the Koni bushings are bigger.....
6. i bought a spring compressor from Vatozone (yeahyeah....
) and it did the job, so its up to you if you wanna do it yourself or have a shop do it for you......personally im not letting anybody touch my $600 shocks
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7. if you got the lowered coil kit, the springs dont have to compressed much. you do have to be more careful if you get the front T-Bird shocks with the springs, like i did, cause theyre stock height, so you gotta compress more when taking those off.
now i gotta take some pics lol.......
and seek out these wonderful new rattles ive never heard before.........