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best possible rear suspension for a coupe!?? #637416
28/06/2008 12:06
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ive got 20vt now and has KW coilovers on front which are great and koni rear shocks which makes car handle like hell but if money whats the best possible suspenion setup you can get for rear of coupes?? and what price you looking at??

Re: best possible rear suspension for a coupe!?? [Re: ] #637419
28/06/2008 12:28
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If you are happy with the handling, why change things? \:\)

I have Leda's on the rear and am very happy with them, not sure how much they are though!

Re: best possible rear suspension for a coupe!?? [Re: ] #637422
28/06/2008 12:31
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Re: best possible rear suspension for a coupe!?? [Re: ] #637449
28/06/2008 13:29
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Add a rear anti-roll bar and that's about as much as you can do


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Re: best possible rear suspension for a coupe!?? [Re: mattB] #637773
29/06/2008 12:36
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The Konis are part of the KW V2 Kit, i just think its abit cheeky of them to not tell you they are Konis \:\)

Its already got a 22mm rear ARB \:\)

Re: best possible rear suspension for a coupe!?? [Re: ] #638027
29/06/2008 23:31
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thanks akeme \:P lol

Re: best possible rear suspension for a coupe!?? [Re: ] #638157
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but if money whats the best possible suspenion setup you can get for rear of coupes??


You go to Ohlins and get some made up, or speak to a guy in Holland from Mondeno (i think) racing


Originally Posted by Jonny - After being taken out at Spa
Your car is Usain Bolt with wellies
Re: best possible rear suspension for a coupe!?? [Re: Begbie] #638188
30/06/2008 11:22
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Or you could convert to alfa gtv rear multilink suspension (plus relevant performance upgrades).

Re: best possible rear suspension for a coupe!?? [Re: ] #638366
30/06/2008 15:35
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Or you could speak to Nitron...

The are many options, but i think the koni's are pretty good, as you probably know the rear suspension on a coupe is not particularly complicated so a super expensive adjustable damper is probably unnecessary.

IMO \:D

Re: best possible rear suspension for a coupe!?? [Re: ] #638368
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Think about replacing the rear subframe bushes and you could have a play around with the koni settings a bit to find out what suits you best.


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Re: best possible rear suspension for a coupe!?? [Re: mattB] #638409
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from my experience, as long as the rear suspension is correctly matched to the front (ie correct spring and damper rates) AND all the bushes are in good condition AND you have good tyres, the rear of a Coupe will just follow whatever the front is doing.

I rarely have any feeling that the rear end is doing anything that it shouldn't, despite some fairly serious provocation at some decent speeds.

With the 2/3 front-heavy weight distribution, its the front suspension you need to worry about. Get that wrong and you WILL end up with a car that's wayward


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Re: best possible rear suspension for a coupe!?? [Re: Nigel] #639098
01/07/2008 17:44
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did you know there are different versions of the rear arms one has more camber then the other? No idea what the specs of the arms is though.

madeno racing make rear dampers for the coupe as its the same as the 155, so do in-trax 9thanks beggars) and so do unicourse.

madeno and unicorse make adj spring platforms too

looks like this

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/sediciRich/IMG_1085.jpg


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