You hit it on the head Jon. His strut was sectioned too much !! Had he sectioned it 2" taller and used a spacer, no problem. Since his strut was sectioned too much, he couldn't use a spacer with that shock. I sectioned my struts (rear) to fit the Tokico 3015 BZ shock (at the advice of Ground Control) which has a stroke of a little over 7 inches. Now that I am running this car exclusively on the track, I would like to go to Koni or some other adjustable shock. However, when mounting a Koni 8610 1437 Race shock in the same strut, it requires a spacer. Using a spacer is no problem but at the height of the strut, the Koni has very little droop. I would like to have a taller strut and use a taller spacer. This would give me more droop. I don't need much more, but it would be nice. The Koni has a 6 inch stroke. Bottom line, if I had it to do over,I would use more calculations before sectioning. This would insure that I would have sufficient bounce and droop. Now I have way more bounce than I need and barely any droop.
I run Konis on the front and Tokico 3015 BZ on the rear. I would like to do an altogether re-do. Any ideas for sources for shocks, struts, etc would be appreciated. I have read this and many other forums and most guys are street drivers or autocrossers. I run only on the track. Any ideas where I can acquire a set of struts ? Seriously.
Thanks for all your time. Jim