Brakes, shocks etc q's

Dan Z. Johnson danz at voicenet.com
Sat Sep 15 21:55:39 EDT 2001


Thanks, Brian.
I'm putting ATE's in the front, with (uh, uh) Metal masters. What's the
problem there? it's what Blau recommended, but I'm more than willing to
send them back for better.
As for the shocks/struts, it's Bilstein sports in the front, but they
don't make a rear shock for the Quattro, so I'm going with the Boge.
Again, a Blau recommend.. Does Koni make shocks/struts for the Quattro?
As for the bushings, i was thinking of doing the same, maybe the Blau
delrin bushings...

Brian O' wrote:

> 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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