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Losing my mind... ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2,476 Joined: 26-May 06 From: Charlotte, NC Member No.: 6,073 Region Association: South East States ![]() |
**NOTE: on 3/20 I changed the title of this post because at first I just had a question (this post)...but now I am sharing my experience regarding replacing your 914 suspension with Koni Adjustable shocks because a lot of people asked or seemed interested. Jump to Post 13 for "The rest of the story"....
_________________________________________________________ It's been a while since I've posted a stupid question - heck I've been so busy lately and not done much with my 914's in months that its been a while since I've posted ANYTHING at all... (Papa Smurf is away at Dawe's Motorsports winter camp spending all our retirement savings and Huey has been sitting patiently in the garage waiting for nice weather...) So here's my dilemma: I ordered a full set of Koni Sport adjustable shocks for Huey, and I got the coil-over set up from Ground Control for the rear. They came Friday, and I was excited to get working on them Sunday (was busy Saturday). ![]() So...after doing a bunch of things to our other cars that needed the lift, I got Huey up there, took off one of the rear Bilsteins (figured I'd start on the easy end first, easy remove and install right?) and looked at what I had in the new box, and what I had on the old shock. I realized I needed basically all the hardware that goes above the spring hat (washer, threaded collar (Porsche calls it a bushing) and rubber bushing) that was below the hole, and the bushing and washer above. Basically everything above the hat except the top nut (which they give as a lock nut). This is where the stupid question comes in: Are there different threaded collars (bushings) for Bilstein and Koni? Look at these pictures: First one is the threaded collar, screwed all the way down on the Bilstein as it's supposed to - and the rubber bushing goes over it. The second one is as far as the collar will go...which is not at all because the thread pitch on the Koni is different!! Do I need a special threaded collar for Konis? Did they not send me something I should have? Suspension is something I've honestly never messed with... ![]() ![]() I'm going to call Ground Control later today, but thought I would throw this out there to the World braintrust and see what responses I get since I'm SURE some of you have upgraded to Koni adjustables... Thanks! |
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Wow, i had the same issue but opposite a year ago when I went from Red Koni's to Bilsteins, the threaded collar wouldnt fit. I couldnt get an answer back then so I simply drilled out the threads of the collar and slid it on using only the top nut to hold it together.
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naro914 |
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Losing my mind... ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2,476 Joined: 26-May 06 From: Charlotte, NC Member No.: 6,073 Region Association: South East States ![]() |
Wow, i had the same issue but opposite a year ago when I went from Red Koni's to Bilsteins, the threaded collar wouldnt fit. I couldnt get an answer back then so I simply drilled out the threads of the collar and slid it on using only the top nut to hold it together. That's interesting...I have a set of Red Koni and Green Bilsteins, and the threaded collars (and top nuts) are interchangable with both... On Monday after my initial post and before I talked to Ground Control, I ran up to Black Forest and talked to John Forbes. He had an old set of Koni reds sitting around and gave them to me with their threaded collars because we assumed that Koni stuff would work on Koni stuff...and that it was the Bilsteins that are odd....wrong! I got home and they didn't fit. But they worked fine on the Bilsteins. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) When I talked to Ground Control, he called Koni. When he got his answer, he then apologized for not sending the correct collars and overnighted them. |
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