Koni's

jj260z said:
Standard as per photos

Just restoring it road use only.
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My idea, for what its worth, would be to return the short stroke Koni's to whoever sold them to you and get the correct length dampers that will fit with no modifications
 
zbloke said:
My idea, for what its worth, would be to return the short stroke Koni's to whoever sold them to you and get the correct length dampers that will fit with no modifications
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Thus following sound engineering principle of treating the root cause of the problem instead of treating the symptoms.
In this case fitting the correct damper cos its readily available instead of trying to bodge the wrong damper to make it fit.
IMO of course

shortening the travel of the damper by 100mm could lead to a whole load of unexpected pain in the handling dept.
And lastly IMO if you are just building a nice road car then why bother with the extra expense of an adjustable shock. A new non adjustable Tockiko or KYB will give you a very nice handling car in conjunction with a Euro spec Nissan spring
 
I think it's just the body of the shock that's 100mm shorter Pete, not the actual travel?
 
I am actually looking at sending them back. Or at least having a moan at the place that sold them.

I was after options.

If its an easy fix great the cars in bits on a ramp in my garage.

I bought these about six seven months again so might be a bit fun.

I don't actually think its as bad as 100mm that's just a guess and it appears to be only the case not travel but I'm no expert.

All subsequent reasearch suggests a slight modification.

As for choise there ain't a lot when you live in the middle desert that is eight times bigger then the UK with limited resources and most places you ring up haven't even hard of a Datsun let alone a 260z. I went with what I thought was the best with the information I had at the time. I'm now wiser.
 
It appears after talking to koni that they are infact the "correct" ones.

They actually recommend packing out the strut tube with spaces.

There quote "it sounds a bit backyard ish but its what we recommend"

Sadly they do not supply said spacers.
 
I'm running Koni's, no problems, did not need spacer on rear, later car with longer struts.
Run with them, much better than the Tokico stuff...
 
Can you please explain

The gland nut can not possably hold this secure and in place without spacers. Unless you have sectioned the strut tube of course.
 
well I ended up putting the Konis in the front with 20mm spacers and bought some cheap struts from the states for about $100 delivered. Think they were KYB or something for the rear, went in like a dream no ******* around and now handles a whole lot better too.
 
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