Brakes, shocks etc q's

[Brian O']

when you say stock rear, do you mean that you are
doing something else up front ?? other than stock ?? i
was kinda dissapointed with my brakes, the rears, so i
put a set of hawk blues on, what a differance !! but
of course its gonna eat rotors for lunch !! and its
actually been kinda quiet too !! pedal feel is harder
and the car stops very nice now. they are just now
starting to squeek here and there after about 3
months. as far as your springs, stock springs never go
bad, you should still toss them and get some h+r's,
eibachs, or intrax. my car had bilstein sports and
intrax, i love it. only went with the intrax because i
found them 2nd hand, but still brand new for 75 bucks
!! if i were to buy them again, i would go with h+r,
they are the best and dont settle, the intrax have
settled about 3/4's of an inch, i swear !! the
ultimate set up is koni's and h+r's, you can adust the
firmness with a turn of a screw, for the fronts
anyway, the rears you have to take off and adjust, but
you can set them up anyway you want !! why boges on
the back ?? if anything you want the stiffer shocks in
the rear. i replaced the rear control arm bushings and
the rear shocks seperate from the fronts and the car
felt incredible with the new sports in the rear and
the 100k front shocks. do the h+r's and the sports all
around, you'll love it !! and use the ur front shock
upper mounts from blau, or whoever, mine oem ones went
bad with only about 10k on them, i guess the bilsteins
didnt help that either !!  i hope you got at least
pagid or ate pads for the car or your gonna loose alot
of brakeing !!! no metalmasters !!!!
                                       brian o'
93 90 cs
90 80
89 80  ( for sale soon !! )
88 944 turbo s ( for sale )


--- "Dan Z. Johnson" <danz at voicenet.com> wrote:
> I'm in need of brakes in the front of my '95 90q, so
> I ordered up some
> ATE rotors from Blau. They are out of the rears
> right now, and my rear
> rotors are fine. Will I be missing much by staying
> stock in the rear
> brakes, or should I wait and do the rears at the
> same time. I know most
> braking is done up front, but...
> I'll also be doing a strut/shock upgrade and I am
> wondering whether to
> do the springs, too. The car is at 95k. Do the
> springs loose anything
> over time and use? Is now the time to change them,
> or upgrade? I think
> that the new shocks/struts (Bilstein fronts, Boge
> backs) will be a big
> improvement over the old stock parts, but if the
> springs do degrade, i
> should really do them now, eh?
> Thanks
> -DanZ
> 


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