Re: rally/street prep

[William J Erikson <williamjosiah@juno.com>]

Joe Oliviera has some Bilsteins that have some MONSTROUS rods. Like,
twice as big around as my HD's. Are they just Sports, or something
altogether different? He has Shine coilovers, and got the shocks from
them, I believe.
	-Josiah



On Sun, 11 Jul 1999 12:13:54 -0400 "Scott F. Williams"
<sfwilliams@worldnet.att.net> writes:
>Dale Witt wrote:
>
>> Would not Bilstein Sport be a better choice than the 
>HD?...(snip)...I was told the
>> HD and Sport have the same valving, but the sports do a better job 
>on lowered
>> cars.
>
>Well, yeah. You're exactly right. The Sports have a shortened shaft so 
>that they
>don't bottom as easily with the shorter suspension travel on a lowered 
>car. However,
>an offroad rally car is never lowered. It'll be raised up from stock 
>if anything.
>
>There are camber plates available from OPM Motorsports and VW 
>Specialties that will
>relocated the strut attachment an inch and a half higher than stock. 
>Combined with
>stock height springs this'll drop the front end by that same 1.5". 
>However, you'll
>maintain the original suspension travel length. Combined with a 
>coilover set up that
>can raise the car back to stock height and now you've got 1.5" *extra* 
>travel. This
>could be the "secret weapon" that I'm looking for -for rally *and* 
>street
>applications.
>--
>Scott F. Williams
>NJ Scirocco nut
>SCCA ProRally driver
>Hotrod Rabbit GTi
>
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