[s-cars] UrS4 shocks

[Wylie Bean]

Not to mention the fact that a race car chassis has been beefed-up substantially to be able to take the beating those rocks-for-springs and solid bushings transmit through to it.

Wylie Bean
TheRingmeister at triad.rr.com
90 cq
91 90q20v
92 UrS4
08 Q7 3.6
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-----Original Message-----
From: "JC" <jc at j2c3.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 11:00:19 
To: 'Duncan Thomson'<thomson.duncan at gmail.com>; <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Subject: Re: [s-cars] UrS4 shocks

Yeah this obsession with "if your car doesn't scrape on every pebble it
means your car is 'Rancho' and you have a tiny wee-wee" irritates the hell
outa me. Most of those no-travel-left pavement draggers would struggle on
any track with notable undulations, but hey let their owners think
otherwise... if you dare question
rock-hard-road-scraping-springsets-with-19"-wheels you usually just get an
earful of ignorance about how everybody knows racers have the lowest cars
and the hardest springs and the tiniest sidewalls so you are so totally
stupid and umm now I have to go buy new half-shafts/CV-joints again but like
so shut up man. Not to mention the practicality of real world roads and
driving, which is what drove my friend out of his '92 S4 after constantly
having to replace bushings from beating up on his dirt road. Unfortunately
at the time we didn't know enough to swap him into later softy OEM springs
(aka "Rancho pussy springs" for the ricers out there) and let have somebody
in perfect-pavement-world enjoy his sport springs. </rant>

Anyways, another datapoint, I gots Bilsteins from the PO on the Avant (means
they must be HD's I assume). Seem totally fine. When I was doing shocks for
the wife's old Jeepus last year, the Bilsteins were a good value and
completely changed the character of the ride/drive. Perhaps Konis would have
been better but the price was outlandishly more and the B's were
comparatively a bargain and we loved the result for short money...

>
>
> Hi guys,
>
> The shocks are completely stuffed on my '94 UrS4, and I'm
> looking to upgrade.
> Previous owner put in lowering springs (unsure of brand) and
> they are waaaay to low. The car bottoms out on 50% of speed
> bumps, and the underside is taking a hammering.
>
> What's the current thinking on Koni's vs Bilsteins?
>
> I'm looking at putting the stock springs back in. Although it
> appears the rears could be raised with a simple spacer under
> the perch (saw this at 2bennett or somewhere similar).
>
> Any advice / preferences. Especially re: Koni vs Bilstein.
> Just getting prices now.
>
> Any help gratefully received!
>
> Cheers
> Duncan
>


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