fastsc92
Registered User
I'm in the middle of building up my project car and have reached the point where the suspension and brakes need to be built/installed and the car on the ground before I can continue with building my 8-point roll bar. I've toyed around with the idea of going coil-overs in the front, but I'd like to try something a little different since I've had good luck with my H&R springs in the past. The car's function will be 90% 1/4 mile track, 10% street. I'd like to get a set-up built that has enough adjustability for the track, while not compromising too much ride quality for some late night cruises.
The car as it sits right now has a tubular k-member in the front, rear upper and lower tubular control arms, H&R springs and some inexpensive KYB shocks. In the rear, I've already gone ahead and ordered some air-bags for adjustments at the track and have ordered some QA1 adjustable shocks from the IRS version of the cobra. I'm hopeful that this combination will allow me to pull some decent 60' times and allow some room for adjustment.
The front end is where things may or may not be lacking. My previous car, with a similar set-up was routinely pulling 1.58-1.63 60' times, which was respectable for the power it was making. The front end always seemed to transfer the weight appropriately and I've never experience any wheel spin or wheel hop. The new set-up will be much more aggressive to say the least, as I'm targeting somewhere north of 600hp.
I'd like to build a set-up for the front that can compliment the QA1 shocks in the rear. Since KONI's and Bilsteins have been gone for a number of years, I'd like to build something myself on the front end. Does anyone have any experience with using a different type of "insert" shock body that I can use in the front? Koni looks like they have some universal applications that may work, but I don't know how compatible it would be with switching between vendors in the front and rear and how the different approach to valving between the two brands may be counter-productive. I'm OK with highly modifying or building a new shock body but I'd like to maintain using my H&R springs. I've requested a catalog from QA1 and I'm waiting for that to arrive so that I can see what I may be able to shoe-horn into this application.
In the meantime, any thoughts, feedback, comments?
The car as it sits right now has a tubular k-member in the front, rear upper and lower tubular control arms, H&R springs and some inexpensive KYB shocks. In the rear, I've already gone ahead and ordered some air-bags for adjustments at the track and have ordered some QA1 adjustable shocks from the IRS version of the cobra. I'm hopeful that this combination will allow me to pull some decent 60' times and allow some room for adjustment.
The front end is where things may or may not be lacking. My previous car, with a similar set-up was routinely pulling 1.58-1.63 60' times, which was respectable for the power it was making. The front end always seemed to transfer the weight appropriately and I've never experience any wheel spin or wheel hop. The new set-up will be much more aggressive to say the least, as I'm targeting somewhere north of 600hp.
I'd like to build a set-up for the front that can compliment the QA1 shocks in the rear. Since KONI's and Bilsteins have been gone for a number of years, I'd like to build something myself on the front end. Does anyone have any experience with using a different type of "insert" shock body that I can use in the front? Koni looks like they have some universal applications that may work, but I don't know how compatible it would be with switching between vendors in the front and rear and how the different approach to valving between the two brands may be counter-productive. I'm OK with highly modifying or building a new shock body but I'd like to maintain using my H&R springs. I've requested a catalog from QA1 and I'm waiting for that to arrive so that I can see what I may be able to shoe-horn into this application.
In the meantime, any thoughts, feedback, comments?