suspension

[black91turbo]

I was wondering if I could leave my tokicos in the front and put some KYB on the rear. (blew out my right rear tokico) I called tokico and they want me to buy a new shock and reimburse me for it later, after they inspect the blown shock. Anyways, do you think it would be okay to put two different brand shocks on the car (2 front tokicos and 2 rear KYB's)


thanks for your help,
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[jkbmkiii]

Wont be a problem, bolth shocks might be a little diffrent but bolth are replacement shocks any way.

 

[xarewhyayen]

Id say as long as the front set matches, and the rear set matches (no tokico on the left side and kyb on the right for example) i dont see why itd hurt... might feel a little weird, handle a little different, but nothing detrimental. Sux that you blew out a tokico, especially since i have HP's all around. How old are they? which tokicos?

 

[black91turbo]

Id say as long as the front set matches, and the rear set matches (no tokico on the left side and kyb on the right for example) i dont see why itd hurt... might feel a little weird, handle a little different, but nothing detrimental. Sux that you blew out a tokico, especially since i have HP's all around. How old are they? which tokicos?

funny you ask........ i have the blues, and rear on blew out after about 50 miles, yeah not 500 but 50. When i called them up they said it had to have been a faulty shock or something and then the guy asked me about springs and I have eibachs he was like well there is your problem right there. It only drops the car about an inch in the rear how the hell can that be my problem??? Anyhow I am pretty fed up with tokico but i really don't want to go through the hassle of changing out the front ones again so i will get some KYBs and keep the spare front set.

 

[xarewhyayen]

yeah ive heard some bad stories about tokicos, but also some good ones. Every manufacture has some mishaps i suppose. Sucks their customer service is the crapper. I was looking into some springs but i think i might just save up and get a set of coilovers when that time comes... ive been driving on my tokicos for about 3 months...maybe a little more, so around 5000-7000 miles.

 

[swaq]

I have Tokico blues with GReddy springs and I haven't had any problems. The ride is pretty stiff but the car holds the road like a dream.

 

[bwest]

I just put Koni's (front) and Tokico (rear) on my GF's 3g. she already had Eibach's (blew the stock shocks) - and this was the set-up RR eng said to be the best street combo. It took some adjustments to get the shocks to work together but it rides and handles very well. The key here was adjusting the shocks-getting the characteristics of the two to work together - when i first put them on (with ballpark adjustments) the car rode like crap IMO.

also, Eibach's are hard on shocks (as is any variable rate spring). lower rate on initial compression, but the rate greatly increases the further the spring compresses. This isn't a big deal until the shock has to handle the large discharge of stored energy...

Hope that helps answer your questions.

 

[black91turbo]

what kind of adjustments are we talking about........ because i did not think that you could do much with a shock/spring combo. I Learn something new everyday i guess.

 

[black91turbo]

yeah ive heard some bad stories about tokicos, but also some good ones. Every manufacture has some mishaps i suppose. Sucks their customer service is the crapper. I was looking into some springs but i think i might just save up and get a set of coilovers when that time comes... ive been driving on my tokicos for about 3 months...maybe a little more, so around 5000-7000 miles.

Hey when you put on the rear tokicos did you have a problem with the shaft spinning while tightening the center bolt????? I got new shock mounts and it did not solve the problem with tokicos but when I put the stock strutback on to make the car drivable i did not have the problem with the shaft turning.

 

[bwest]

The valve adjustments on the tops (for the Koni's it 'feels' like rebound, where the Tokico's 'feel' like compression) of the shock shaft. To keep the shaft from spinning while you tighten, use a small cresent wrench (or 7mm iirc) to hold the flat side of the shaft while tightening the nut. This works best when the shock assembly is out of the car though.