Doug,
I am assuming that your comments are mostly regarding later cars. The early
fixed spring cars don't have a spring sag problem. And with the shorter
axles, if you have gas charged shocks, the change in camber is more of a
problem because the later long axle cars have an exagerated negative camger
to begin with and bringing the camber to a more neutral position appears to
help.
The other issue is that the later cars were heavier and therefore the weight
resistance to the gas charged shocks tends to offest the charge to a greater
degree than the earlier lighter cars.
My comments are limited to the early short axle cars and are made entirely
from experience. I tried KYB shocks on a Mk1 and a Mk2 Spit and had the
same problem both times. I ended up selling the rear shocks to the owner of
a 1500 and they worked just fine.
Regards,
Joe
----- Original Message -----
From: <doug@dougbraun.com>
To: "Joe Curry" <spitlist@cox.net>; "David Mayer" <celiracer81@hotmail.com>;
<spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: Suspension question and more...
> At 01:00 PM 1/4/2006 -0700, Joe Curry wrote:
>>Dave,
>>On any Spit prior to the MkIV and 1500 models, you want to make sure that
>>the shocks you put on the rear do not use gas charged technology (such as
>>KYB). These shocks force the suspension to be flexed to its highest and
>>force the rear camber to be in a positive stance.
>
>
> I think this isn't really true if the rear spring is sagging a bit in the
> first place.
> Also, the up-force of the gas shocks isn't really that great- certainly
> less than
> the difference between a full and empty gas tank.
>
> Also, the original Girling DeCarbon rear shocks were gas charged.
>
> A few years ago one of my original rear shocks broke at the upper eye.
> I replaced them with some generic replacement that I found locally,
> and they were terrible: the rear end kept twitching up and down.
> Now I have KYBs and I am happy with them.
>
> Doug Braun
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