Anyone had any good experiences with particular front dampers? Just been out for a drive and noticed it felt a bit "choppy", got home bounced the front drivers side and boing boing after just over a year and i've done less than 6k since i've had it, the price you pay for having it silly low I guess. Not in any rush (got two weeks till a demo im doing) so can order the dampers from anywhere rather than rushing out to get the same thing again from the local parts place. From vague memory I thought I paid about £80 last time, so any recommendations??
Juat fitted some Monroe MR 960's to mine, literally finished tonight, so I can't really comment until it all settles down. It did seem to corner flatter without so much body roll and didn't bounce about quite so much though. I'll let you know how they go, however, I can't seem to find them listed anymore, I got them unused and boxed as a job lot of parts.
Pete
G reg 360 GLT, G reg 340 GL Variomatic, plus many more..........
foggyjames wrote:If you can find them...
...although I thought they only did them for B14 cars. I'd have expected the valving to be different for the (much heavier) 360s.
Much heavier?? Is the b14 made of alu or something? How much is the difference?
Smedberg are using those on his 360 Rally car
Yes i know they probably are hard to find, but it`s same with koni`s
I think the R-Sport ones are probably much, much harder to find than Konis. In fact, those shocks don't look like the R-Sport ones for the 300 series I've seen before - I wonder if they are 2/7/900 series ones - the struts are very similar to a 300, so I bet they could be made to fit. I'll ask...
EDIT: I read again...he says they are from a 340. D'oh
B14 3dr is ~950kg, while a B200 3dr is ~1050kg - most of which is located in front of the front axle - putting a lot more load on the front suspension.
All this talk about buying uprated dampers."BUYING",Thats a word we cardis hate to use.Whats wrong with moddin your existing dampers then.As far back as i remember i have used quite a simple conversion which is strip your old dampers down,pour away the squirrels p*ss that volvo fill them with,cut a coil off your old springs,fill the shocker back up with EP90 gearbox oil,rebuild and there you have it.A lowered, hardened front shock that cost about 50p.Ha we are so tight in Ceredigion my friend dropped a quid over a bridge near the coast and called the life boat out to find it for him(joke)
after just over a year and i've done less than 6k since i've had it, the price you pay for having it silly low I guess. Not in any rush (got two weeks till a demo im doing) so can order the dampers from anywhere rather than rushing out to get the same thing again from the local parts place. From vague memory I thought I paid about £80 last time, so any recommendations??
