Spring Rates

[Mazda_Powered]

thanks MazdaRacer. i appreciate the info. just a quick question, whats all involved with your custom dampner idea? i'm very intrested in a higher spring rate than what you mentioned (250lbs)

thanks in advance

JACK

[JesseSays]

Once you have some dimensions of the strut body, you can call up Koni NA and talk to Lee Grimes and see what they have to offer. They made a couple series of "universal" strut inserts that can be built and valved exactly how you want. Price isn't terribly bad, but it'll be more than what the typical kid on here is willing to pay.

For instance, for my MR2, I'd use the 8611s are the good single adjustable units, and the 8612s are the good double adjustables without going 28 series (bigger $$) stuff.

I can't recall the shop that does the Bilstein stuff, but in that case, I believe you can just send out your old struts and tell them what you want, and you'll get back a set of rebuilt struts. I believe revalving after that is actually pretty cheap, under 100 bucks per corner.

[Mazda_Powered]

hmmm, ok, yea, i noticed that corksport.com sells the inserts as well for the mx-3, didnt notice anything for the pro because i'll be using all the mx-3 components

it looks like to do the set-up i want would cost more money than the car i want. so it looks like all im going to be doing for suspension is once the mx-3 components have been uninstalled from the mx-3 im going to replace/upgrade all the bushings, do the ZX2 and H&R combo (unless someone has a better suggestion for a mid range priced spring), then some type of camber kit. even that alone would run me $700+ canadian or so.

JACK

[JesseSays]

You can just use camber bolts front and rear....save you a lot there, since camber bolts go for like 10 bucks for a pair.