BeachBlv

Contact John at Trackspec motorsports. You can get a set of Koni STR.Ts on your doorstep for less than $400 im pretty sure. If I remember right it was around $385, do it right the first time.

Norm Peterson

100kit - the advantage to Koni "yellows" is that you can dial the amount of damping up to give tighter control over the suspension's motions.

If you're at all involved in autocross or road course track days, or only want to take an enthusiastic drive out in the country it's a simple adjustment to shift your car between being more of an easy-going daily driver to more of a cornering car.

Some people even prefer firmer damping control over the suspension in their daily driving over what you get with OE or OE replacement shocks & struts after they've seen a few thousand miles. Most folks don't understand how much suspension movement is happening even in normal daily driving until they've driven a car with firm damping.


Norm

AJ06GT

Yeah, it really honestly isn't that hard of work, and once you've done it once, it'll be even easier the next time.

Norm summed up the yellows pretty well. They are the adjustables which give you control of how firm or soft the ride is (to an extent). Personally, I don't mind a slightly firmer ride than most. I like to feel the road as I drive. I've always heard the STR.Ts described as "about as firm as the Yellows on their lowest setting". I haven't compared for myself, but that would still be a great improvement over stock, and maybe plenty for lots of people, but with a lifetime warranty I decided to just pony up the cash for the yellows and always have that option.

l00kitzzlilcj

Cool thanks. How do you feel about these.. Too soft too firm just right?

l00kitzzlilcj

Im guessing you just have to turn some kind of bolt or something to adjust the yellows? Those sound really good to have, my only thing is that idk if I will use them to their full potential. My car never sees the track and I'm not sure if I would even play around with the damping on them. I'd be easily satisfied the way they feel stock while my main focus is finding something to handle the drop of my Pro Kit springs. I do live in the city and there are bumpy and messed up roads especially the parkway near my house, so I'm not sure if that should influence me to get adjustables or just regular dampeners. One thing for sure though, I wouldn't mind a slightly stiffer ride either but not so much where i start to feel like I'm hitting a bunch of potholes

AJ06GT

Sounds like you'd be just fine with the STR.Ts then. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying they are bad or even necessarily worse than the yellows, it's more just a matter of what you want out of it. They are certainly cheaper and would be a great improvement over stock still.

Norm Peterson

You turn a little flat stem that sticks up out of the strut or shock shaft.




The tool I'm using is something I made a couple of weeks after I installed my yellows. The tool that ships with the yellows is harder to use - has less leverage, is less durable and harder to hit the same adjustment on both sides. I just have to be careful to avoid trying to turn the adjustment past either the full soft or full firm stops because I have so much better leverage with my little DIY wrench. I've heard that there may be some commercially available Koni adjusting tools, but they can't beat the price I paid for mine .


Norm

l00kitzzlilcj

I'm kinda leaning towards them more than the eibachs, although I feel like it would work better together since they were designed for that purpose. BeachBlv mentioned the STR T's from Trakspec Motorsports. They're actually $370 right now without any sale or coupons + free shipping. Has anyone seen them cheaper, maybe even during the KONi sale?

l00kitzzlilcj

That's great Norm lol. Nothing like a successful DIY job! So how do you know how soft or stiff each is? Does it click or something while you turn it

Norm Peterson

No clicks with Koni yellows, so you have to keep track of how many turns and/or fractions of turns you are from one end or the other. Most shock tuning philosophies have you starting full soft and adding damping, so what I do when I make adjustments is first dial the shock or strut back to full soft (so I know where I'm starting from). Then I crank it up to where I want to try it. Typically I'm running a little more adjustment up front than out back, and that may just be my preference for "feel" for the types of driving I do (performance street and a little open tracking). At autocross I might reverse that, but I don't do that very much any more.

Just so you know, quarter turns are more than enough to feel the difference between and you might even feel eighth turn adjustments if you're paying close enough attention.


Hotrodding used to mean you had to do or even make lots of things yourself.


Norm