I heard that skunk2 sleeves make your car bounce up and down like blown shocks/cut springs, but i guess skunk2 made new shocks to upgrade from stock. Has anyone tried these before or have them?

http://robearracing.com/pd_skunk2_sport.cfm

 

skunk 2 coil overs have some bounce to them as for replacing the shocks it will help

 

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yeah all 4 of my shocks are blown so i was looking to upgrade to some mild shocks w/ some h&r lower springs.

 

yea if ur rolling on blown shocks it like like being on a boat

 

Here is a picture of the shocks... you can see that the body is shorter which also shortens the stroke.

The short body and stroke works better on lowered cars by reducing (not eliminating) the chance of the strut bottoming out. This is the largest cause of shock failure.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Duckiller00 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Here is a picture of the shocks... you can see that the body is shorter which also shortens the stroke.

The short body and stroke works better on lowered cars by reducing (not eliminating) the chance of the strut bottoming out. This is the largest cause of shock failure.

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so the skunk2 are better then the tokicko blues?

 

For the price i think its worth it. Skunk2 is a good company and reliable too. But i've heard that anything lower then 2.5' and they're goners though. Theres a huge thread on this. OP should search it up in the suspension forum.

 

Not gonners... but rather, we cannot cover product that was used in that enviorment. You guys wanna dump your **** and that is NOT what this product was meant to handle.

You guys that slam your cars need to understand what is going on inside the strut. The strut likes to be in the center of it's range of motion... on slamed cars it right at the bottom of the tube. This increase the chance of the piston slamming into the bottom of the shock tube and crushing the orffice that bleeds preasure from the inner tube to the outter tube.

Reduced shock life and no warranty.


Modified by Duckiller00 at 4:16 AM 2/28/2007

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Duckiller00 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Not gonners... but rather, we cannot cover product that was used in that enviorment. You guys wanna dump your **** and that is NOT what this product was meant to handle.

You guys that slam your cars need to understand what is going on inside the strut. The strut likes to be in the ceter of it's range of motion... on slamed cars it right at the bottom of the tube. This increase the chance of the piston slamming into the bottom of the shock tube and crushing the orffice that bleeds preasure from the inner tube to the outter tube.

Reduced shock life and no warranty.</TD></TR></TABLE>


so you're saying skunk2 shocks aren't good to dump a car the floor w/ springs?

 

kinda . . . i think he is trying to say the skunk2 product just wasn't made for the spring rate of dumped cars

 

They will be fine. But lowering anything more than 2" or a little more in my mind is over kill because 2" takes out all the wheel gap.

 

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yeah i don't want to lower my car more then 2 inches. i just want upgraded shocks that are a little stiffer/stronger then oem so they don't blow out on me in the future.

 

Any shock for that matter... unless the body and piston of the shock is half the OE size.

Check out some of the companies that make shocks for trucks. Like Belltech Nitro-Shocks.

Here is a diagram of a shock extended and one compressed.



And here is a very poor diagram on what a shock see's and why they dont work the way you want them to.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Duckiller00 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Any shock for that matter... unless the body and piston of the shock is half the OE size.

Check out some of the companies that make shocks for trucks. Like Belltech Nitro-Shocks.

Here is a diagram of a shock extended and one compressed.



And here is a very poor diagram on what a shock see's and why they dont work the way you want them to.



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thanks.


but i just wanted to know if someone has used the skunk2 shocks before as replacement instead of oem w/ lowering springs and the quality of the shocks if they are good for daily driving compared to adjustable shocks.

 

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1868485

 

If it was me I would just get some Koni yellows cuz their in my opinion the best.

 

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http://robearracing.com/pd_skunk2_sport.cfm</TD></TR></TABLE>

If they're on stock shocks, yes, because the stock shocks were obviously not designed to dampen the load of such stiff springs.

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KYB AGX's are popular budget shocks, Koni Yellows are THE best top-of-the-line shocks, and Tokico Illuminas are just under Koni Yellows in 2nd best. (There are dyno shocks to prove it if anyone wants to argue this ) All three of these shocks are stiffness adjustable.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by typeR564 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">so the skunk2 are better then the tokicko blues?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Tokico Blues were not designed for stiff springs and a lot of lowering... they're basically like OE replacement shocks. This is about my 84th time repeating this on H-T.

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It doesn't have to do with spring rates. A dumped car = a very low car = the shock is near the bottom of its travel, meaning it's more likely to bottom out, which like someone said earlier in this thread, is a major reason for shocks blowing.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by b18c eJ1 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">yeah i don't want to lower my car more then 2 inches. i just want upgraded shocks that are a little stiffer/stronger then oem so they don't blow out on me in the future.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Personally, if I was to buy new parts (I got my shocks and springs used but for free, so I didn't really too much of a choice of what kind I got... I have Eibach Pro-Kit springs on Tokico Illuminas) I'd go with Koni Yellows and probably Skunk2 sleeves. My brother has Koni Yellows and they're way stiffer than my Tokico Illuminas. Part of the reason is probably because my Illuminas have more miles on them, but still, Yellows are better when comparing brand new Yellows vs. brand new Illuminas. The Skunk2 sleeves are just personal preference but you can basically choose any springs or sleeve coilovers you want based on what spring rates you want, how low you want it, and if you want height adjustability.

If you had searched, you would have already found everything I just said and more because this question has been asked, answered, and talked about plenty of times before.

 

i already got some H&R race springs for my eg

now im getting skunk2 dampers for 289 from jhpusa

 

Courtesy of http://www.JHPUSA.com

 

i got skunk2 Lowering springs and i love them. not to bouncy but its gonna happen on any car