performance shock of choice

[archiboy24]

i'm wondering what performance shock is best suited to complement stock S2 springs? not looking for a bone-jarring ride, just something a little stiffer than stock.

[audiman]

Konis are a good choice, fully adjustable ones! You can then alter settings to suit your prefference.

[Dr H]

I've got adjustable konis wih stock springs on my Avant (fitted by last owner) seem to give a nice firm ride and pretty flat cornering for such a heavy car.

Only problem is you have to get the shocks off the car to adjust them, which is completely useless as far as I am concerned. To me if they are not adjustable on the car what is the point

HTH

Leigh

[s2driveruk]

Will tell you what Bilstein B6's are like with H&R springs next week. They are not adjustable on or off the car but then konis as you say need to be removed which is a pain in the *** and for me would mean that I wouldn't be able to do any adjusting anyway.

I got a decent deal from a guy on ebay for these billies - normally £105 each from demon tweeks, i got 4 and 4 springs for £280. Later found out the springs were for a 90 quattro but the shocks are definately for an s2 - sold the springs last week and have 4 new H&R's sat here waiting to go on

keep you posted,

David

[Lyndon Dickens]

I just put Bilsteins on mine with the standard springs. Handles great.
You can feel the road bumping around a bit more at higher speeds.

Got mine from ECP. Originally quoted £100 each + VAT, but when I went to order they had gone up by £30! Strangely it didnt take much bartering to get him back to £100.

Lyndon

[audiman]

Er, Lyndon, Konis are cheaper than that! I think someone saw you coming there m8. thats £400+VAT. I paid £550 for a complete koni kit including springs!!

[MikQuattro]

Only problem is you have to get the shocks off the car to adjust them, which is completely useless as far as I am concerned. To me if they are not adjustable on the car what is the point

I agree...

[Lyndon Dickens]

Well, I didnt want to change the springs and to be honest I was just lazy. ECP is about 2 minutes from my front door. I would have fit standard ones from Audi but they were also £100 so I went for the bilsteins.

What I didnt tell you was that I had to buy a strut tube also as someone had change the right front for a standard one at some point in its life.

[Lyndon Dickens]

Thinking more about it, am I also right in thinking that the 3B and the ABY struts are different anyway. The ABY are larger in diameter which is why I had to get the new strut tube as it had a standard size tube so the new shock wouldnt fit.

The rears (Which I have not changed yet) look to be the standard size for all coupes on ETKA.

I could be completely wrong. Does anyone know?

Lyndon

[s2driveruk]

Hi,

yeah as i posted on another thread the bilstein parts list does show two sizes of strut insert diameter s- that makes sense.

David