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I've had experience of both Spax & Koni coilovers on previous 'projects' as well as Sachs when I was involved in a performance car market that is a parsec away from todays market.
Spax custom built me a set for a particularly unusual application, Koni were also very helpful on another project......... The Spax setup was easy to adjust, & still on one of my ex-cars 12 years later, so they can't be too dire if you can get on with yellow!
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Ben is currently AWOL - absent with other layabouts
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Confidence is the feeling you have before you know better . . . . Audi A8 D2 3.7 Quattro Sport 1999 FL - Melange 2nd Place Winner - A8-Freunde Annual German Meet 2012 at Edersee 20" x 9" Bentley GTC Wheels with 385mm W12 Front Discs & Bentley Caliper Covers, Front Lowered on Coilovers, Xenons, Combined DRLs and LED Foglights to modified OEM front fog lamp position, Alcantara/Leather, Full Black Alcantara headlining + pillars and blind shelf, Bespoke Flat Bottomed Sports Steering Wheel, Dark Myrtle Wood, Autodim Mirrors, Bose, Blinds, Digital TV, Ski Hatch, Modified rear exhaust section for extra V8 Burble Audi S8 D2 Final Edition 2002, Avus Silver with Red Leather Interior Tiptronic with Sport mode button, Sony rear entertainment package, Bose sound system, Audi Navigation Plus, 20 inch Final Edition alloys, Full Cat Back Stainless Milltek exhaust, giving a great V8 burble Audi A8L D2 4.2 Petrol with LPG - Ebony Black Audi A8L D4 FL 4.0T Petrol twin turbo - Havana Black Audi A2 1.6 FSi Sport - Dolphin Grey with Votex body kit and Red Leather Interior and some other A8's A8L's and Mercs |
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Did anyone try the Spax kit?
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i only just went from std to S8 coilovers with a 20mm drop and that has mad a hell of a difference, would like to make the S8 set up slightly more stiff maybe 20% more and then poly bush about 85% of the car has any one poly bushed yet ?
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Hi guys,
Anyone considered buying the weld on coilover kits from rally supply shops? Then choose your 40mm bilstein inverted dampers and springs to match. You'll need a good fabricator and a bit of mechanical engineering nouse. I did this for both of my previous Celica GT-Fours. Bilstein inverteds make most coilovers feel like Fisher-Price. I used to run 14kg/mm front and 8 kg/mm rear springs and it was nowhere near harsh....just extremely controlled. Off the shelf is obviously a lot easier though! John |
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Mike and myself were talking to the guys on the polybush stand at GTi International about providing the information to them so they could put and A8/S8 polybush set together. As I have an old complete set of suspension arms from replacing mine then it might be possible to use these and clean them up and get polybush to make up a complete set then tell us what the costs would be on a group basis. If I remember correctly they only need to justify a stock of 10 sets by selling 2 or 3 ahead
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Confidence is the feeling you have before you know better . . . . Audi A8 D2 3.7 Quattro Sport 1999 FL - Melange 2nd Place Winner - A8-Freunde Annual German Meet 2012 at Edersee 20" x 9" Bentley GTC Wheels with 385mm W12 Front Discs & Bentley Caliper Covers, Front Lowered on Coilovers, Xenons, Combined DRLs and LED Foglights to modified OEM front fog lamp position, Alcantara/Leather, Full Black Alcantara headlining + pillars and blind shelf, Bespoke Flat Bottomed Sports Steering Wheel, Dark Myrtle Wood, Autodim Mirrors, Bose, Blinds, Digital TV, Ski Hatch, Modified rear exhaust section for extra V8 Burble Audi S8 D2 Final Edition 2002, Avus Silver with Red Leather Interior Tiptronic with Sport mode button, Sony rear entertainment package, Bose sound system, Audi Navigation Plus, 20 inch Final Edition alloys, Full Cat Back Stainless Milltek exhaust, giving a great V8 burble Audi A8L D2 4.2 Petrol with LPG - Ebony Black Audi A8L D4 FL 4.0T Petrol twin turbo - Havana Black Audi A2 1.6 FSi Sport - Dolphin Grey with Votex body kit and Red Leather Interior and some other A8's A8L's and Mercs |
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Would there be an issue as the car is aluminium? |
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It annoys me that Koni doesnt supply adjustable shocks when for instance the KW2 kit has adjustable front and rear... Could probably fit Konis from a A6 or S4 B5.... same suspension but more weight...
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Hi,
It would be welding of the strut. Are the struts aluminium on the 8? Wouldn't surprise me!! If so, it would mean making a threaded tube out of aluminium and tig welding that on. Then again I've just read above Bilstein do various shocks for the 8 so probably too much hastle. In fairness when I did them for the Celica there was sod all out there.......of a high quality that is. John |
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