Check out this article by a guy who is an avid autocrosser and also has worked as a shock engineer for a racing team. Also check out the other Autocross info on that site.

http://www.wincom.net/trog/autocross_secrets.html

His conclusion? Pretty much everything out of Japan is crap. His choices are Bilstein, Penske, Koni, and Ohlins, in that order. Pretty interesting read on what shock adjusters really do (or don't do).

 

we've discussed this before here.

even the author got in the discussion.

maybe someone else who feels like it can search.

 

Somebody posted this about a month ago and the author joined H-T an answered a few questions.

 

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1853171

 

well crap

oh well

 

No Mention On KYB's. Im planning on gettin a set of agx's for my prelude, A couple of my friends have them with no complaints. Anyone comment on them? or should I spend the extra 150$ to get tokicos ?

 

i'm in the top six

 

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I highly recommend Koni Sports. I have nearly 150,000 miles on mine and they still work great.

 

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Actually, he never says anything about order. He probably made it a bulleted, and not a numbered list, for a reason.


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I wish he would have stayed in the discussion and not left the thread though. I would have loved to pick his brain some more.

 

he did have bilstein on the top. sounded like he had a hardon for them.
(easy to get parts, field serviceable, and each model was valved very consistantly to each other)
if you look on the farnorth website and look at the setup on the DSM car, it shows what he was using. Shocktech (custom shocks using mostly bilstein parts). and how they machined parts for the shock after Shocktech went out of business.
it also went thru the explaination of converting the bilsteins to remote resorvoir external compression adjustables.

 

Yep, there is a lot of good info on both the article site and the FNR site.