Re: Koni yellows (again)

["Mike" <lerb@redrose.net>]

<x-charset iso-8859-1>I had a friend who got these in his scirocco when we were still in school.
he had them mis-adjusted and ended up leaping off the road over a little
bump and killing his best friend in the passenger seat. i am going to avoid
them.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mr. Eddy <eperson@students.uiuc.edu>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 3:43 AM
Subject: Re: Koni yellows (again)


> i was looking in my Truechoice catalog tonite and found the double
> adjustable koni inserts.  They say that they can adapt these to most strut
> housings and specifically list scirocco as one of the popular
applications.
>  They are the 8611 series and they list them as an IT shock.  They list
for
> $239 ea. in my catalog.  And yes, theyre yellow.
> Their website is www.truechoice.com
> just to let you guys know they are available
>
> Eric Person
> 86.5 16v
>
> >This will be the last time I have anything to say on this.  As I've
> >said at least 3 times, go look on the damn Koni website for the chart
> >showing REBOUND compression adjustment.  Now, the older Koni yellow
> >sports didn't have the adjustment knob (and as I've also mentioned
> >previously) could be adjusted (REBOUND only again) off the car
> >exactly as you state.  I actually have a set of them right now that
> >I'm shipping off to Scott soon.  I actually also have a set of newer
> >Koni Yellow sports that has the knob on top (for REBOUND adjustment).
> >
> >If you're actually saying that the Koni Yellow Sports have a knob
> >on top for rebound adjustment, AND can be adjusted for compression
> >off the car as you state...you'd be the only person to know about it.
> >I also wonder why it was never mentioned in the documentation I
> >received with my brand new Koni Yellow Sports.  I would also wonder
> >why this adjustment option has never been mentioned any place else...
> >relevant places would include the VW newsgroups, the VW Autocross list,
> >the Wheel-2-Wheel auto racing list.  Other sources of info would be
> >Shine racing services, BSI motorsports and RD Enterprises (all of
> >whom I talked with before buying the Konis).  Both Shine & BSI mentioned
> >that they were in the process of testing the new (and not yet
commercially
> >available) DOUBLE ADJUSTABLE Koni's.  This turned into the Koni
> >'28 Series'...these are very different from the Koni Yellows...before
> >anyone says anything else go look on the Koni website as frankly I'm a
> >little tired of arguing about this.  Further postings on this subject
> >will be dutifully ignored.
> >
> >==Brett
> >
> > \/  '84 Scirocco (ITB racer 2B) | "Hot VW's, take two home. They're
small"
> >\/\/ '88 Scirocco 16v (Show), '85 Scirocco (Winter) | - brett@netacc.net
> >
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