10-09-2007, 02:39 PM
Evan Wrote:Id agree with you on a dual purpose street/track car, but as soon as you get into a purpose race car, and dumping money into revalving and shortening the shocks, they arent too cheap anymore, at least in comparison to their performance.
If you can pick up a used set of yellows it will run you at most a total investment of $1000-$1100 for a shortened/revalved set. I was pretty happy with their performance, and I've driven other cars with them as well.
The 'off the shelf' yellows are definitely a street shock and they're soft to maintain ride quality - its a pretty significant difference once they're revalved and worth the $$ IMO.
Quote:I dont think the race konis at around $2k for the car is crazy expensive and probably worth it over the yellows imo.
Just depends on what your budget and goals are. If you've got the $$ and can do some fabrication to get things to work on an uncommon application like an XR, then its certainly money well spent - you wont be dissapointed. If you're not into the Koni thing you can get custom applications from Penske, dynamic suspension, moton and a few others. Everything I've read about the advanced designs is they're fragile and the customer service is horrible.