I have to agree on the koni 'R' shocks - every car I have seen with these
was lower than my 96, which were measured and modified via crude methods,
but meet the letter of the rule.
When in doubt, pull it out and check.....
Stan Whitney
At 08:00 AM 1/28/99 -0800, Kevin McCormick wrote:
>I can help here - When we put these on Katie Elder's '99 we had the factory
>Bilsteins to reference against.
>
>We measured the Bilstein first from various points and various methods
>(using a micrometer). Our methods were semi-crude, but repeatable. The
>MazdaSpeed shocks indeed were low in the rear - as to specific amounts, 2mm
>sounds right. Another thing that was considered was the droop in the lower
>bushing on the Bilstein - since it had been on the car, it had been
>'squished' (I know, a technical term :-) up, thus minimally lowering the
>car, so that has to be taken into consideration when comparing against a
>never installed shock.
>
>I knew Alan had the same shocks and emailed him about this - he agreed that
>the rear were lower.
>
>Ask anyone who had deal with putting Koni's on an R-package car before Koni
>came out with their extra perch groove - you measure, measure, measure...
>
>BTW, I do think that Koni did not get right the perch height on their middle
>'R' groove on the rear shocks. - I have two of these on a shelf in the
>garage, and everytime I measured them, they came up lower than a Bilstein...
>
>
>Another BTW - remember, the rule says that the perch can be no lower than
>the factory one - error on the safe side...
>
>Preaching mode off...
>
>Kevin McCormick
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Craig Blome [mailto:cblome@yahoo.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 1999 6:24 AM
>> To: Alan Dahl; autox@autox.team.net
>> Subject: Re: 99 Miata suspenion
>>
>>
>>
>> Alan Dahl <adahl@eskimo.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > get it right, the perch heights on the '99s were examined at two
>> events
>> > (Denver and Nationals) this year.
>> >
>>
>> Out of curiosity, how do they measure perch height on the car to
>> within 2mm accuracy?
>>
>> Just being a doubting Thomas,
>> Craig Blome
>>
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