Help with Koni shocks

[Edwin Ho]

I'm looking for new shocks for my '90 ITC Civic. Koni's seem to be the right way to go. I am not sure how much to shorten the front shocks though. I have been told 1/2" off the body and 1/2" off the rod by one person and 1" off the body and 1" off the rod by another. Who's right?

Ed.

[bbp]

One option is to send your stock dampers to Truechoice in Hilliard (Columbus) Ohio. . They are very good at building Koni's for all levels of racing.
www.truechoice.com

[spsspeed]

Just call Koni North America and talk to Lee Grimes. He used to race an ITA CRX and is very familiar with how much to shorten the shocks, suspension setup, spring rates and shock revalving.

Lee is in their motorsports / race division.




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Scott Seck
ITS #38 Integra GSR

[Tom Blaney]

I am curious, my crx/si came to tokiko(spell?). I thought they worked pretty well. Is there a big difference?

[jc836]

The arguement could rage for a long time-but-personally I have always chosen Koni for my cars. The ease of adjustment and the fact they can be modified by Koni makes them a great choice. Is there a large difference between them and Tokico-cannot say. If someone has done a real shock dyno test for performance and lifespan-that would be valuable.

[jc836]

Originally posted by jc836:
The arguement could rage for a long time-but-personally I have always chosen Koni for my cars. The ease of adjustment and the fact they can be modified by Koni makes them a great choice. Is there a large difference between them and Tokico-cannot say. If someone has done a real shock dyno test for performance and lifespan-that would be valuable.

I also agree that Lee Grimes is the specialist you need to talk to-he has been a real help to me.

[Edwin Ho]

Well, I have been researching more on this shock business. How many people running Konis have had any problems with failures? I have heard rumours of poor quality recently and two shock failures on a VW. Granted, it was struts that failed, so maybe there's a durability issue with the shock in bending.

Ed.

[lb2]

I run Koni single and double over the last 2 years and had no problem with them, they are great shocks but the only complaint is that it will take to long to get them serviced or rebuild even if you buy them new plan to wait 2 month at least to get them, but I have been informed by Lee Grimes from Koni that they hired more people and that problem should be fixed soon.
Louis B.