Woohoo! Anyone with a Falcon - hell anyone with any damned car! - you have GOT to get some Bilsteins. Sell one of the kids, pawn off a kindney or maybe put the Mrs out on the game for a few nights - but do-it do-it DO-IT!
Fronts $517 the pair and rear $300 - they're "Sprints". I was actually quite surprised how reasonable the price was. The springs are King "comfort" spec lowered all round - ie. same height as std XR6 (a necessity in the stix).
i got Munro GT gas (lower struts - coz my cars lowered) for $460 the set. And they are Perfect! But i guess if i had alot to spend on shockers (which i do not).. i'ld go for bilsteins.
The Munro's do just fine!
I got them thru Fulcrum - my brother does business with them so I'm not quite sure if I got normal counter price or mate's rates - my impression was that they were normal prices tho (ie. it was me doing the payment etc. - not thru my brother).
They are "Sprint" spec in the dockets - ie. they've got shorter bodies (only slightly tho) than normal. They aren't harsh at all and the general stability and cornering is terrific.
Both front and rear look like any other shockies in that there's the body with the chromed shaft comming out the top - ie. they're not the type that have two large tubes that slide one inside the other with the shaft etc. all internal. The fronts have fairly large diameter bodies and reasonable sized shaft (body larger than KYB, shaft about the same) and the rears have the largest diameter bodies and shafts I've seen yet - they look STRONG!
The front ones have a separate spring perch (similar to but better looking than Koni yellow ones) and presumably the height of it on the body can be changed by relocating the circlip it sits on - mine came assembled with springs etc. so I couldn't actually see whether there were more circlip grooves.
so do you think that the front ones have an adjustable ride height???? i want to get the front of my car a lil lower, and i need new shocks anyway...it is lowered 2" all round with kings superlow, but the weight of the stezza makes it sit a little lower at the back, if i can get it 1 or 2 cm lower at the front i will be happy...you think the shocks could do that?
Rollin, it's unlikely that the fronts I have would actually help you - strangely enough altho they have adjustable spring platforms, the lowest setting has actually made my front sit up a tiny bit (probably 10mm) compared to before.
I have to say that the Koni yellow spring height adjustment was probably more useable in that respect - ie. on the lowest perch the front was about15 or 20mm lower than just std struts and then there were 2 grooves of higher adjustment from there.
The Bilstein shocks for Fords do not need the upside down setup that is often seen on other cars. The reason Bilstein fit an external sleeve, run the shock upside down, is for rigidity and taking the side-loads off the shock on strut type suspensions. The commodore shocks have this feature and it helps reduce stiction, provides better cooling, as well as allowing the use of a smaller piston shaft and therefore more piston area for shock control. Since the Ford SLALS front suspension uses double wishbones for location control, there is negligible side laoding and control requirements from the shock/spring unit.
Bilsteins also have the advantage of being rebuildable, and tunable by valve changes.
I don't think Konis have the same piston speed dependent damping as the Bilsteins do they?
On the ride height issue mentioned in another post, it is normal to see a small rise in ride height when fitting Bilsteins or other high pressure mono-tube shocks. The reason is due to the high gas pressure causing a differential pressure across the different piston areas (between top and bottom). This makes the shock want to extend and thereby provides a small amount of additional 'spring' force. That means higher ride height.
oh well looks like i will be getting KYBs then, they are cheap but i can afford them now and i am hopefully going to be competing in a hillclimb or two, and anything is better than standard shocks and lowered springs!
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