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Old Oct 27, 2005 | 02:15 PM
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Hey every1 I just recieved my KONI/GC package. Im very happy with the quality of them and plan to put them on my car this weekend with skunk 2 pro series front camber and ingalls rear. My question is do i have to get them tuned by a shop or should i just do a allignment and be done with them. Please help me out on this guys thanks.
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Old Oct 27, 2005 | 03:06 PM
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Corner weight
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Old Oct 27, 2005 | 04:23 PM
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You don't have to corner weight them, but I did.
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Old Oct 27, 2005 | 04:48 PM
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Depends on what you are calling "tuned". I hope you aren't talking about paying a shop to adjust your shock damping. Start with a half turn from Minimum and see that you think as you drive on them. As far as corner weighting, this is nice to do now that you can but I have had many sets of coil-overs on my street car and have always set my heights with a tape measure and confirmed that things were pretty good with a DIY alignment. You can spend the money if you have it and want to but it isn't mandatory for a street machine. Racecar, then it would be a good move.
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Old Oct 27, 2005 | 06:59 PM
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no lee i wasnt talking about adjusting shock dampening i can do that myself. I was talking about adjusting the cambers.
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Old Oct 27, 2005 | 07:40 PM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by zadnikR &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">no lee i wasnt talking about adjusting shock dampening i can do that myself. I was talking about adjusting the cambers. </TD></TR></TABLE>

'adjusting the cambers' would be getting an alignment.... which you should probably have a shop do.

FWIW, it's damping, not dampening. shocks don't make it rain in your wheelwell.
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Old Oct 27, 2005 | 08:35 PM
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ty for the info guys.
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