[DeTomaso] Coil overs

[Julian Kift]

Summit Racing sell the QA1's (single or double adjustables) if you want a price comparison to vendors the single adjustables are about $200 a corner with spring. If you decide to change spring rates the springs alone run about $30 ea, no need to sell the shocks like Mikey did....
 
I can never understand Larry Stock's thinking, he sells them with a 375/275 springs set IIRC, in fact I think that's what he runs on Red. That said as Jack DeRyke is always keen to point out it's a combination of shocks, springs, sway bars and to a lesser extent the sway bar mounting e.g the ball ends vs. std rubber.
 
Julian
 
> From: MikeLDrew at aol.com
> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:43:52 -0500
> To: D421996 at aol.com; Detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Coil overs
> 
> 
> In a message dated 1/20/11 10 35 19, D421996 at aol.com writes:
> 
> 
> > Where is the best place to get coil overs for a 74?  What does Koni  
> > charge
> > for rebuilding?  Mine is a street car not a race car, any  thoughts?
> > 
> 
> "Best" has different connotations depending on how you drive.
> 
> I had Carrera (now QA1) shocks on my Pantera. I liked them but I found 
> the ride too soft. Only after sold them did I discover that the problem 
> was that I had bought them from Larry Stock; he has very strange ideas on 
> suspension and actually sets his shocks up with softer springs than the stock 
> ones! Everybody else uses slightly stiffer-than-stock rates of 450 lbs 
> front/550 lbs rear. I'm sure if I had bought them with the proper spring rates 
> I would have been much happier with them.
> 
> You can get Carrera shocks with 450/550 from Wilkinson. For slightly more 
> money (last time I checked), you can get Konis (which I have now and LOVE) 
> from either Pantera East or Pantera Performance Center. They are available 
> with either steel or aluminum bodies; the aluminum ones are a tidge lighter 
> and much more expensive, and a waste of money IMHO.
> 
> Although they offer more adjustment possibilities, adjusting them requires 
> removal from the car, which is a pain. They come pre-adjusted however, and 
> mine were perfect right out of the box.
> 
> Hall and Byars sell Aldan shocks. On paper they look like they could be 
> viable, but personally I wouldn't put them on a shopping cart. The tales of 
> Aldan shock failures are legion; they just can't seem to build them in a 
> manner that allows them to live, at least on a Pantera. I have personally 
> been involved as an intermediary between Aldan and Pantera owners in Europe, 
> and have shipped shocks back and forth across the Atlantic more times than I 
> can count. In most cases, the Europeans finally gave up and just trashed 
> them and bought Konis and lived happily ever after.
> 
> As for rebuilding your existing shocks--do you have old-school Koni shocks 
> at the moment? Konis were available as a stock replacement shock for 
> years, with the stock springs. Koni charges about $150 each to rebuild them. 
> The L-models came with Telecar shocks, which were fairly cheap, and are not 
> rebuildable.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Mike
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