Best Dampers?

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Streets_of_Fire
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What do you guys think? KYB AGX's or Tokico D-Spec?


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nismofly
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if you get stock springs like your intention was in your other thread, go with a set of KYB GR-2's, theyre a stock replacement damper that will be matched fairly well for the stock springs

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i couldnt bash on koni yellows if i TRIED

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dayu, too many choices, but im trying to narrow it down between tokico and kyb, i havent read much on konis

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do some research on the koni yellows. if you have the money for them... it really is the best strut ive used so far as well compared to the gr2s, agx, and tokiko blues. no competition whatsoever. simply amazing.
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According to Eibach and the testing they've done on their shock dyno, the Koni's are one of the best shocks out on the market.

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my car knows, lol.

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Can you adjust Koni yellows just like AGX? I'm asking you this because I've heard that it's hard to adjust for some of adjustable shocks out there. I wonder Koni yellow is one of them. What I heard is you have to remove the shocks to adjust. AGX is very easy since knobs are on the body.

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I believe all the Koni Sports use top adjustments.

What kind of car is this going on?

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i believe the rear koni's you need to pull the wheel off to adjust them

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nismofly wrote:i believe the rear koni's you need to pull the wheel off to adjust them
I think that was it. I heard people complaining about not being easy to adjust.

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need to do more than just take the wheels off... you have to take the shocks off on the rear to adjust them

http://koni.com/_cars/frame.html

click on "general info" on the left and then "adjustment" under the Installation manuals section and it'll tell you how to adjust. look at the adjustment for the 8040 series, it's the same for S13 and S14

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calico wrote:need to do more than just take the wheels off... you have to take the shocks off on the rear to adjust them

http://koni.com/_cars/frame.html

click on "general info" on the left and then "adjustment" under the Installation manuals section and it'll tell you how to adjust. look at the adjustment for the 8040 series, it's the same for S13 and S14
calico,Thanks for the info. I think people should know about this before they spend money on it. I would definitely buy something easy to adjust...

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this is for an s14, and yes i will stay away from konis! i was leaning towards tokico, which manufacturer makes the most OEm supply ? (especially for OEM sports cars) ?


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