Bean Bandits Levin 'Globetrotter'

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NoHachi Wrote:Option 3: shorten the struts, dump the swifts, buy some coilover perches add springs to taste.
If you stay between 4kg-6kg front springs they should be matched pretty decently. If you bump the rate to 6kg you might need helper springs to keep them seated. This is a very GOOD thing. 4kgs will be long enough to stay seated and have awesome stroke. Don't lower it too much. That would be my preference.

I talked Aram into a set of GAZ golds. They are decent twintubes like the HTS's with a wide range of adjustment. I expect them to work well, but haven't driven in his car yet. His rates are 5/3 or so.. priced around the 1000€ mark

Zax is converting his struts to a Escort Mk2 setup. I have VERY high expectations about his setup, but haven't heard from him yet. Some custom work to be done, no doubt he can help you out there with the small stuff. Just watch any Escort going round..decent street setup me thinks. Add linear bearing alloy strut casings for my ultimate setup. It can be done.

GAZ do escort mk2 monotube inserts now and will do a conversion for 200e over the Gaz Gold Pro price. They also have adjustables (!!) and can do custom rates. Trawl escort and rally forums for experiences, they are still quite new. I am very tempted to go this way with my hachi if it ever gets done. You will however have to send them a conversion roadmap. Maybe Zax's pics will help. Adjustables are bottom adjustable and will require custom creativity if they are to work with AE86 knuckles (if possible at all).

AST will do a custom conversion to my specs. But the custom work typically starts with the aluminium bodied 2 way adjustable stuff. Count on it being around 2000€ with best in business valving. Not cheap, but baller...better suited for competition I think. Intrax or Reiger will be similar. I have these on my MX5, if I can get a decent advantage over my Bilstein setup I will throw some on the AE86. At the moment, this is not the case (but its early days yet and have yet to dial in the AST's).

Price for spindles from BC racing?

thanks for your inputs, very much appreciated. another albeit also expensive option seems to be the Koni Race line... I cam across the page yesterday but was too tired to post. they'll be 2k+ too and quite some custom work but we'll see. I think I'll draw out a couple of options and see once the car is here which way I'll go as I need to have the car to make measurements and mockups etc.

I haven't decide how low I want to go but I guess a bit lower then now. As I still need to make some new fenders I'll have to figure it all out at once when I come up with the design so it'll look nice.

On another note - do you have any numbers on travel for different setups. As this I need also to figure out when designing the fenders so there won't be any rubbing.

Last but not least I'm currently inclined to have 2 different spring sets if I go custom dampers. Something like a 6/4 and 3/2 or close to that. This would allow me to experiment and adjust to the intended use. Also if I would go for coil overs in the rear I might be able to run the same size springs all around which would give me even more mix and match options (i.e. I would buy springs from 2 to 6kg/mm in steps of 1kg/mm).

I'm still waiting for the reply from BC so far they only got through with a price for the complete fronts (ER-Type and no rears) for US$1140+shipping.
Hope to receive an answer after the weekend. Another thing I'll have to find out is the size and thread pitch they use on the spindles.
Some of my options rely on the BC spindles as I don't really fancy to knock out my own.

I'll also try to see if AVO can supply me with some damper dyno for their universal setup.