I've been interested in fitting Stock's Koni set for a while, the chance to lower the car a touch, stiffen the shocks, and keep stock springs, all in one.

I approached Grant at Stocks a few weeks back to get a set on the Altezzaclub group-buy system, and have Stocks fit and tune them. Unfortunately they had just received three container-loads of boxes, and the fitting bay was stacked full.

Yesterday they were all ready to be picked up, but when I got them there was no extra groove. So it was 20minutes of chatting to the engineer while he zipped them through the lathe putting an extra groove 15mm lower than the Koni factory one.

This gave me a set of sports shocks with three grooves, set on the softest setting.

Cost was a tad over $1000, and the guy behind the counter was amazed they were being given away so cheap! Never seen that discount before!

Then it was off to Manukau Toyota this morning- car looked like this going in-

and like this coming out-

In actual fact it dropped 28mm, so the middle groove (Koni factory lowest) must be 13mm lower than standard already!

Cost was $340. They rang up with one problem (shaft had no 'flat' on it to grip, so they filed one on) and phoned up to tell me when it was on the alignment machine so I could go and discuss what I wanted with the tech. Can't complain about anything there!

Now has -1deg05' camber & 0.6mm each on the front

and -1deg40' camber & 1.7mm toe each on the rear.

It feels stiffer over bumps, but we shall really see tomorrow morning early in a blast down the back roads to Rotorua, then trackday Friday! :woot:

Damn that looks good Keith, total price of the shocks fitted?

When you said about them 'cutting grooves' what did you mean?

nick


The shocks come from the factory with two grooves cut into the tube. A steel circlip fits in one and the spring base cup sits on the circlip. If you move the circlip into the higher groove then the car will be raised. I had a third groove cut (5min on a lathe) 15mm lower than the bottom factory one- A really simple operation. Total cost $1340. come for a ride!- keith

Got to agree with Nick.looks good Keith. B)

Same shocks as what i got in mine but i got 30 mil lovell springs, and on the top setting on the konis it a a little lower than your's keith. It wont be too bumpy, I have set shocks on about half all round.

Keith Im so glad you went to see Daniel and the boys at Botany.

They are the only thing that has saved MCT any face in my mind. Daniel is an awesome guy and they certainly did treat me well down there. It was them that picked the fault in my box when Manukau told me to shove off as nothing was wrong.

Looks good.

Well! just got back from a hard day's racing, then a blast back to Auckland, grab some guns and an evening spent target shooting.

What I found was-

Too much understeer, especially in the big sweeper on the track. Solution is to raise the rear 12mm (one groove) which will reduce the -1deg40 camber and also give some roll oversteer. (I hope..)

Tyres on 35psi just don't cut it on the big sweeper. Things improved with 45psi in the front right!

Swapping tyres didn't make any real difference, so Toyo T1S or Falken FK452 on the front couldn't overcome the suspension shortfalls.

The shocks that were meant to be set on softest actually weren't! So we will have a little play with those over the next week or two and see what the setting do.

...and what I really learned was that Altezzas are just a brilliant package for blasting up and down the country and doing some track workouts in between! :P

Hi guys, didn't know if i should start a new thread...or just continue on here...one of the mods can fix.

ok...bit of a dilemma, i've bought some lowered kmacs a while ago to lower the Lex...now i've just bought a set of yellow konis

here's my question, the kmacs are out of the below car, i'm pretty sure the below car was still using factory struts

now, when i fit my koni/kmac combo, which groove should i use? i'm thinking the highest? as using the lower groove would lower the car further than the below pic?

or, should i use the factory springs on the lowest groove setting and sell off the kmacs?

i'm just trying to elimate a bit of body roll in the process of the lowered stance

any input would be great

and on the subject...how many full turns 'out' does the koni reach full firmness?

thanks

kelvin

anyone?

new thread mate with a link to this thread