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Date:         Tue, 5 Jun 2001 14:51:30 -0700
Reply-To:     Bob McMain <RdRunr@ZIANET.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Bob McMain <RdRunr@ZIANET.COM>
Subject:      Re: Shocks: KYB vs Bilstein
Comments: To: Stuart MacMillan <macmillan@home.com>
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Thx, Stuart. This is helpful. I'll be looking for other feedback from the list also. Bob

-----Original Message----- From: Stuart MacMillan <macmillan@home.com> To: Bob McMain <RdRunr@ZIANET.COM> Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Date: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 1:41 PM Subject: Re: Shocks: KYB vs Bilstein

>I replaced my 12 year old KYB's this weekend with Bilsteins just to try >something different. The ride is smoother, and I think the reason is >the rear shocks are not as stiff as the KYB Gas Adjusts. For a very >unscientific test I pushed on the KYBs and Bilsteins to "feel" the >differences in resistance and rebound. The fronts were very similar in >terms of the effort required to push them down, and the rebound was >fairly rapid for both. > >The rears were similar on the down stroke, but very different on the >rebound, with the KYBs rebounding MUCH slower than the Bilsteins. This >indicates to me that the valving is different, since they are both high >pressure single tube design gas shocks. Though it's possible my KYBs >had lost enough gas pressure to account for the slower rebound. > >Bilsteins are very high quality, and the rears will really "advertise" >with their blue and yellow color in the big rear wheel well (until they >get covered in mud), but with four KYBs going for $108, you really can't >beat them at one third the cost of the Bilsteins. > >-- >Stuart MacMillan >Seattle > >'84 Vanagon Westfalia w/2.1 >'65 MGB (Daily driver since 1969) >'74 MGB GT (Restoring sloooowly) > >Personal mechanic for: >'70 MGB GT (Daughter's) > >Assisting on Restoration (and spending OPM): >'72 MGB GT (Was daughter's, now son's) >'64 MGB (Son's) > >Stripped and gone but their parts live on: >'68 MGB, '73 MGB, '67 MGB GT >


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