Watching your wheel bounce on the highway made me seasick.



I would go with the Konis. There just seems to be more of them around....

 

I think there is free shipping on the sport kit, so its more like $700 shipped

 

I cant give you any 9-3 advice but my 9000 has bilstein's and stock springs and the ride is kind of harsh when hitting bumps. It seems like the springs are too soft for the heavy damping of the shocks though Im not sure which model bilstein's they are. I've never driven a car with the koni's but you usually hear nothing but good things about them so you would think they're doing something right.

 

I was never happy with the ride of the 9000 once we put Bil's on it.

 

I absolutely love my eibach/bilstein setup... though I can imagine the bilsteins would be too harsh on stock springs.

I've got some stock struts I could send you

 

i like my bilsteins, so do most of the people that rally their cars...that should count for something...plus theyre generally cheaper.

Paul

 

If they're the HD bilsteins you're in for a rough ride with stock springs. HDs are pretty robust comapred to stock stuff. Touring class....maybe not so much.

I'd get some oem stuff if you didn't want to spend a lot of $!

 

I'm currently running on Bilsteins HD's & stock springs. And as I'm sure some of the folks from the West Chester meet can tell you, it's pretty firm. In fact the viggen next to me had more give in the push down test . But other then that I am happy with it, it gives a nice firm feel in the turns & it's not to bad on the bumps (in comparison to busted/leaking stock, shocks/struts that I had) It my give you a nice dune buggy look but it rides nicly. I will buy Bilsteins again, when I need to.

 

I have bil hd's and H&R springs in my 9k. Great ride, cant compare it to the koni equivilant, but the setup can do everything I ask of it in the turns and more. It would be nice if the cd changer skipped less on the highway though.

 

I'd say the only thing lacking on the HD's is the adjustment. Koni Yellow's are awesome and top of the line. But as stated before they are pricey.

I'd say unless you were a serious track guy, the yellow's are overkill. If you are just looking for stock replacements, get the touring shock/struts or the KYB equivalent for that, both are very affordable.

 

Get the stock shocks from Code and tune your Aero before SOC.


Shocks/springs for the 9-3 will make a great Christmas gift for Jen later this fall/winter.

 

Get the stock shocks from Code and tune your Aero before SOC.

Shocks/springs for the 9-3 will make a great Christmas gift for Jen later this fall/winter.

Ahh, yes - just what women want, for the fiancé to give her suspension upgrades for her car.

 

After riding in many cars with Koni and blisten i would say koni, just because you have the option of always adjusting the firmness. Notice in a few years they start to get a little weak go up one level.

 

I would love to call nick up and have him talk me into the full $750 koni kit, but I'm on the fents about that.

I can has fentz?

 

 

I would hold off untill you can afford springs be it a used set of Viggen springs or the koni springs

then get koni shocks when you get the springs, they are worth it!!

 

Well, I had Jen order the Konis - sans springs at this point.

I will deal with the spring situation, but maybe later this summer, and to be honest I will probably just install the front struts for now and then install the rears when I get the spring situation figured out.

At least the car will be safe at speeds above 25 mph.

 

You can change the rears in like 30min, so there would be no point in that

 

Yeah, rears take no time at all. Which was good, cause the fronts took me forever :-D

 

old warn out shocks in the back & new ones up front isn't safe at any speed!

 

Bah! In my 91 9kT I've got front struts with about 100kmiles on them and the rears are original with 230k! Hardly dangerous, though I'm sure it would improve the handling a bit to replace all 4.

 

I've been running Bilstein Sports on stocker 93 springs for a year + now. No problems at all.

_bny

 

If the rears are easy them I will just go ahead with those along with the fronts right away. But I am still going to hold off on the springs, it will be an experiment. ;-)

 

Rear's are so simple, it's not funny. Took me ~ an hour with a beer to do both of them. One bolt & one Nut on each side. Very rewarding, simple, job.

Like I said, stock spring, and bilstein sports are perfectly fine in my 93....

-Bny

 

Great, I was half expecting the rears to be like the 9000 rears...which are a bitch when the lower bolt is siezed up (like on my Aero).

Hopefully the front's aren't too troublesome.

The shitty thing is that the struts are in Eagan MN (20 min away) but since UPS doesn't deliver on weekends (unless you pay extra) I will have to wait until Monday :-(

Props to Nick T and his crew for sending them out quickly though! :-D

 

This is just me but I woulda suggested getting the springs as well and doing it all at once rather than having to pull the suspension apart latter just to add the springs and get another alignment.

Springs at same time as shock only an extra 20 minutes probably. vs. Springs down the road..............whole time to dissasemble like you were putting shocks on again.

Just me though.

 

..... and get another alignment.

Hahahaha.....hahahahha.....hahhaa

I'm not getting an allignment until I do as you say and replace the springs. No need IMO.

Maybe nobody is noticing this, but I am getting the struts because I have a BLOWN OUT (totally shot, oil leaking all over it) strut, the car is not drivable and it's the only car we own that my fiance can drive. Its not an option for me to order springs and wait for them to arrive now. And I have actually found enough people to support my threory that the universe will not implode if I have stock springs and Koni shocks/struts! It's true!

 

It's not too tough to take the struts back out and swap the springs ;-) I'm not worried.

 

Yeah but I just would hate personally having to take all that extra time as its hard to find time to do major projects for me. Thats all.