BJK's '95 GPX

Daniel2019 · Post by **Daniel2019** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 8:49 pm

Sorry, standards are a bit high...

12 then.

Post by **bjk** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 8:56 pm

Daniel2019 wrote:Sorry, standards are a bit high...

12 then.

I guess you are like 10 years old...

Daniel2019 · Post by **Daniel2019** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 8:58 pm

Well, I still can't grow any form of beard...

Post by **bjk** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 1:02 pm

Camskill's courier won't post shock absorbers.

Which is lame but oh well! One more tally in favour of coilovers lol, though I may get be able to get the shocks locally, not sure if they'd be specific for the FTO or if I could order them in though.

Daniel2019 · Post by **Daniel2019** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 4:37 pm

Note that the KYB replacements are shorter. When trying to fit lawso's Evo rims to my car, they were smacking on the coil seat on my car quite badly, but not at all on lawso's car on standard shocks.

Post by **bjk** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 5:09 pm

Daniel2019 wrote:Note that the KYB replacements are shorter. When trying to fit lawso's Evo rims to my car, they were smacking on the coil seat on my car quite badly, but not at all on lawso's car on standard shocks.

Yeah, that's why I was wanting to get the actual FTO replacements, and not the S40 Volvo ones which I believe accounts for their shortness. That is a consideration though, especially if I want to upsize to some 18x9.5 +15 RPF1s in future.

Daniel2019 · Post by **Daniel2019** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 5:20 pm

Wouldn't go 18s personally but eh.

Yeah try and get standard replacements unless you want a bit moar fitment.

Sahin · Post by **Sahin** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 5:21 pm

Suck it up and get coilovers if you wanna be a stance queen
f**k shocks

ZFL45H1 · Post by **ZFL45H1** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 5:49 pm

Coilovers and stay with 17" just from experience

Technikhaus · Post by **Technikhaus** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 5:53 pm

That would explain why mine occasionally hit the shock in the rear...

Just one more push for coils I guess....

Post by **bjk** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 6:21 pm

Technikhaus wrote:That would explain why mine occasionally hit the shock in the rear...

Just one more push for coils I guess....

I don't think it's hitting the shocks in the rear unless you have some large amount of camber it's probably just knocking on either the bottom of the well or the edge of the fender.

A lot of people on the 17s bandwagon but I think if you run a decent tyre it would be fine. I've been in Tim's car numerous times and I wouldn't describe the ride badly at all. Maybe I should try the girlfriend's CX-7 rims.

would look sunk as the stockies, but same size and tyre that I'd probably use.

Technikhaus · Post by **Technikhaus** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 7:37 pm

It's definitely hitting the shock, as I can see the marks on them :p
This was after a couple of days, front shocks:

silverGPX · Post by **silverGPX** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 7:38 pm

Bad wheel bearings

Technikhaus · Post by **Technikhaus** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 7:42 pm

Usually they would pick up on that in a WoF... Hmm best way of checking?

Post by **bjk** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 8:45 pm

Yeah, front would with your offset, but the rear doesn't have a perch like the front.

Technikhaus · Post by **Technikhaus** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 9:11 pm

Yeah, I'll check for the wheel bearings.
It's just another excuse for coil overs I think

Post by **bjk** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 10:09 pm

Reason*

I'm interested about how adjustable the travel is. Would love to do some fender flares but not sure about cutting up the arches to do so. Like I want a good actual height off the ground, but placing some bolt on fenders that are more flush than I could do with the stock guards because it would be too low.

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Post by **bjk** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 11:25 am

I don't understand the relevance of this instrument.

Daniel2019 · Post by **Daniel2019** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 7:45 pm

Yeah go get dat lump hammer

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