Koni Rebuilds

[Todd Covini]

Anyone ever done it?

After the jump I took I want to send my DA's off for a rebuild and checkup and curious as to other's experience.

-=- Todd

[donovan]

I think Chris Lyons had some done...

Check with him.
DD

[GlennCMC70]

PST has a shock dyno and is currently rebuilding lots of brands of shocks now. get w/ AJ on it.

[AI#97]

PST has a shock dyno and is currently rebuilding lots of brands of shocks now. get w/ AJ on it.

I spoke with him about it this weekend. They can get you a base line and he recommended Truechoice to do the work. I will probably be hitting them up after TWS...

[chicane23]

http://www.truechoicekoniracingservices.com/

[cjlmlml]

Koni NA Paul Mcglaughlin 859 586 4100

[Todd Covini]

Thanks guys. I had heard TrueChoice was the source to use.
So what's the skinny? You send them off and they come back brand new?
For those that use them, did you do any custom valving?
Anything special or just new internals and a spit-shine for $XXX?

How did that service compare to just buying replacements?

-=- Todd

[AI#97]

Thanks guys. I had heard TrueChoice was the source to use.
So what's the skinny? You send them off and they come back brand new?
For those that use them, did you do any custom valving?
Anything special or just new internals and a spit-shine for $XXX?

How did that service compare to just buying replacements?

-=- Todd

AJ said figure a 4 to 6 week turn around and about $150-175 per shock. After TWS my car is going on jackstands and hope to have the fronts re-valved to custom specs. Primarily to deal with some increased spring rates later down the road but I am already past the higher range of control on the DA's... Mostly, the shocks have nearly 3 years of use on them and I figure they are due to be freshened up...

If anyone else had experience with Truechoice, I would love to hear it. I think Mark B had chimed in about them on the Yahoo board but I haven't logged in there for a long time.

[RichardP]

did you do any custom valving?

If you take brand new shocks that are near the price limit and pay to have them re-valved, does that mean that they are now illegal because they cost too much? What if you do it four times to get the valving "just right"? How would anyone know that you did it?

What if you have old shocks re-furbished but not re-valved? Didn't you still spend more than the allowed amount on that particular pair of shocks? How do you validate that they were "worn out" and in need of repair or replacement?

When you get them revalved, do you have to use parts from the original vendor or can you use "other" parts. How would you know?


Sorry, I was just thinking out loud and thought it would be fun to stir things up...


Richard P.

[AI#97]

did you do any custom valving?

If you take brand new shocks that are near the price limit and pay to have them re-valved, does that mean that they are now illegal because they cost too much? What if you do it four times to get the valving "just right"? How would anyone know that you did it?

What if you have old shocks re-furbished but not re-valved? Didn't you still spend more than the allowed amount on that particular pair of shocks? How do you validate that they were "worn out" and in need of repair or replacement?

When you get them revalved, do you have to use parts from the original vendor or can you use "other" parts. How would you know?


Sorry, I was just thinking out loud and thought it would be fun to stir things up...


Richard P.

Well, by your theory then, Glenn should be horsewhipped at dawn...of course those F-body guys can probably buy cheap ass shocks for like $10 instead of the $300 koni's...?