XxSlowpokexX
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Wouldnt it be nice if one of our parts people had a talking to lets say, Tokico, and had them offer the illumina shocks with good performance valving? I'd definitely buy
Well you know SCPI has the Tokico Illumina II which I have. I ran them at Road Atlanta and the car stayed very flat thru all the corners and I had almost no body roll. I'm real happy with them even though I don't use the ARC anymore. They are a bit firmer than stock at both settings.
It has been a very long time since I made the switch from factory shocks to Tokicos, but I remember the soft setting still being firmer than the same setting on the stock shocks. The front was more floaty on the soft setting than factory, but I'm pretty sure that was due to my switch to 1.5" lowering Eibach springs at the same time...a lot of people complained about the floatiness of the progressive rate Eibach springs.I have heard they are softer on soft and firmer on firm.
Well you know SCPI has the Tokico Illumina II which I have.
With the drop, there is 1.25" less travel to get the job done, so it ends up requiring a much stiffer spring and hence a stiffer ride. I run on soft around town and the ride is noticibly harsher than in my other SCs. I think I prefer it, but my wife complains about it.It's my understanding that the Tokico 1.25" lowered springs and the Illumina II shocks were designed to used together. I've been very pleased. I run mine on firm all the time plus I've got several 'body stiffeners' in place.
The stock shocks are probably not even stock shocks. If you ever replaced them (almost a sure thing) you probably used a motorcraft AMG-xxxx part which is sort of a universal Arc shock replacement for all year SCs. However, they changed the valving thru the years, so it not quite the same. I have the AMG-xxxx on the front of my 90 car with stock shocks on the rear.. it is bouncier in the front... I don't paticularly like it, but it is the smoothest ride of all my SCs.there was a national backorder for the Tokico shock, so I just kept the stock shocks on the car.
David
It has been a very long time since I made the switch from factory shocks to Tokicos, but I remember the soft setting still being firmer than the same setting on the stock shocks. The front was more floaty on the soft setting than factory, but I'm pretty sure that was due to my switch to 1.5" lowering Eibach springs at the same time...a lot of people complained about the floatiness of the progressive rate Eibach springs.
I had linear S/T springs with them and overall felt floatier then factory with tokicos