zedevan Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 While this might come down to personal preferance, i'm really having trouble deciding weather i should buy some koni red shocks for my car or tokico illuminas. my car is just my daily driver that i lenjoy driving hard, which is why the stock shocks are an issue, and one day i'd like to take it on a track. they both work out to about the same price, with the koni's being a bit more, with their advantage being they can be rebuilt (for about half the price of buying them new again, so i dont think this is that great of a selling point) and they are ment to be one of the best in the world. although i think i'd like to have the ease of adjustabililty of the illuminas, but can you actully feel a difference? or do you just end up leaving them on the one setting all the time anyway? from what i've read, paying the extra for the shipping of the illumina springs would be a waste of money, so i'll probably use king springs for both setups. any input would be appreshiated, but i realise this is a pretty pointless post, yet alone thread, sorry! -evan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zguitar71 Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 Do the koni's require shortning the strut tubes? You might look into that. I have Illumina's on a street/autox car and like them. I can tell a big difference between settings, 1 mushy, 5 too stiff. I race on 3 or 4 depending on conditions and 2 on the street. I run 180f and 200r springs. I have no experience with Knoi red's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zedevan Posted March 18, 2006 Author Share Posted March 18, 2006 thanks for the reply! they dont require shortening of the struts, instead they weld a spacer nut onto the top so they fit better into the 260z struts, which adds about $100 to the price of them (which i believe is the same difference between the illuminas for 240z or 280z's) you make me wanna get for the tokicos, the only issue is the koni distributor are kinda family friends...and i keep hearing "koni are the best" from random people hehe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlderThanMe Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 this is good info...I now have my coilover stuff with 225f/250r springs and I now just need to order new inserts...I think I am going to get the Illuminas just for the ease of installation...plus I am very poor...I may have a buyer for my Eagle wheels and cheap tires for like $100 and that should give me enough money for the struts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavyZ Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 I have been in my friend Aux's 240z that has the Illuminas---yes, you CAN tell the difference between the settings. The top setting is way too stiff as mentioned earlier, but if it fits your car for racing, so be it. The lower settings feel fine for the street. I have non adjustable Tokikos on my Z, but if I were to do it again, I'd go with the Illuminas. Just my $02. Davy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zedevan Posted March 19, 2006 Author Share Posted March 19, 2006 hey, thanks for all of your inputs. i think the tokicos are the way i'm going to go, and hopefully by the time they would need a rebuild i'd be looking at getting coilovers and sectioned struts, and would then go for some koni yellows from a golf or something i think it is (where as right now i dont have the money, yet alone the need to do this, just the desire hehe) it'll give me something to play around with and adjust so should be a bit of fun, and works out atleast AU$200 cheaper than the koni reds, now just to organise the bushings and some better sway bars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehelix112 Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 Weld a spacer onto the koni shocks?! Sounds awfully dodgey to me. Why not just get a cylindrical spacer spun up? That way you can install the shock, then the spacer, then the nut and keep full shock travel.. I think.. haven't thought about it enough but a mate did it on the weekend. If they were approaching the same price, I'd be going koni, but then I don't know too much about tokico aside from they make motorbike brakes as well. Koni have been doing shocks for a long time, and their sports inserts are almost a gimme amongst budget racers, or so I've been lead to believe. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMortensen Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 Weld a spacer onto the koni shocks?! Sounds awfully dodgey to me. Why not just get a cylindrical spacer spun up? That way you can install the shock, then the spacer, then the nut and keep full shock travel.. I think.. haven't thought about it enough but a mate did it on the weekend. If you did it that way you'd lose suspension travel. You don't need to WELD the spacer to the bottom of the shock, because when you tighten the gland nut down it holds everything in place. So by putting the spacer in underneath the shock, then the gland nut the shock can still compress all the way down to the gland nut. Tokico Illuminas for a 240 have this very feature. Its the same strut front and rear, but the rears which are 2" taller than the fronts have a 2" spacer press fitted to the bottom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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