Re: Urquattro & BBS RSII - match made in heaven

[John Karasaki <johkar@teleport.com>]

At 12:50 AM 5/30/98 -0700, you wrote:
>John Karasaki decided to speak these words:
>
>>What does the TOP perch look like and how does it attach to the car?  This
>>is where the real machining comes in.  Did the kit come with camber plates?
>> Did you have to send your struts to 2B for modification?  If not, how good
>>are their modification instructions (this assumes you have to remove the
>>lower perch yourself and weld on a retainer for the threaded collar)?
>
>The top is this little aluminum hat that fits inside of the top of the 
>spring and is tied on using cable ties, and that allows for the strut to 

Cheese alert meter starting to click...

>go through the center.  There are no camber plates.  No, i dont send them 
>my struts, and their instructions are very clear.  Once i talked to them 
>for five minutes, i knew exactly what they were going for.  You do have 
>to wrap the housing in duct tape to grip the adjustor and keep it from 
>rotating, but the rest seems very good...


Yikes!  The duct tape is the "bug" I was referring to!

>
>>
>>I've been considering this kit, but have seen the cheesiness of the early
>>generations of it.  Maybe 2B has the bugs worked out?
>
>What bugs are you talking about?  Adjustment is still done after the 
>setup is on the car and they say that you dont need a spring compressor.  
>My only question is that since thre is no load on the adjustor when the 
>car is jacked up, is there a time during driving when the spring could 
>actually lift off of the perch...but i guess there isnt or i would have 
>heard of something liek that....
>
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I was afraid to the above.  Whenever I hear "duct tape" and suspension kit
in the same sentence, I start to worry.  I don't think there is any duct
tape in the Todd Candy kit, BTW.  Thanks for the info.