I remember when Perry Kincy and I got some of the first of these shocks for
our ESP cars back in the day - got the whole thing taken apart, installed,
and buttoned back together, dropped my car off the jacks and the fenders hit
the tires with a resounding "thud". We had no idea there was another groove
under the spring perch.
KeS
>The following is for people with F-bodies and Koni single adjustable
>shocks
>on the front of their car .
>
>Koni Single adjustable front shocks for the 1993+ F-body come with
>two spring perch positions, The upper one is the stock ride height.
>From the factory , I believe they come installed in the lower spring
>perch position, which is not the stock ride height. In fact, Bob Noack
>from Koni
>related to me that if the shock is on the lower spring perch,
>that this would lower the car by 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch. What this also
>does
>is get you much more negative camber than a stock ride height F-body can
>normally get (up to .5 or more degrees of additional negative camber,
>which is a lot, considering from the factory you can only get about -.6
>degrees).
>
>Using the lower spring perch is clearly Illegal in Fstock. The reason
>this
>has come up is that a lot of competitors do not know about this (they
>just buy the shocks and bring them to somewhere that installs them) and
>it became a small issue among some local competitors (they did not know
>this).
>
>Note that DOUBLE adjustable Koni shocked cars DO NOT have an adjustable
>perch
>(there is only one way you can have em) so this doesn't apply.
>
>
>This is a friendly note to all those F-bodies out there going to
>nationals
>in Fstock that are running Koni Single adjustable shocks up front,
>make sure the spring perch used is the upper one. Someone might just
>be looking at Nationals (and it is quite easy to see, you dont even
>have to jack the car up to see).
>
>Thanks
>Alex
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