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Old May 20, 2009 | 11:03 AM
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Originally Posted by JETPILOT
I respect your decision to have these evaluated. Get the springs dyno'd as well. I hope you post up the results.

Try these guys... NAAKE
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do you know Chris???

he has a set of zeals also.....Blue Z...goes by illz33

anyhow...i am at the point where i tried a bunch of springs and finally found one that works....now i wasted 900 on struts...tokico blues that got all soft on me in one month...and d-specs that did the same in 2 weeks flat!!!!

i am so frustrated that i am AFRAID to buy koni for fear of the same problem!

i am desperate enough to drop money on real coilovers....

obviously yours cost ~3k what do you reccomend for a budget of 1500-2000?

thanks!
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Old May 20, 2009 | 11:13 AM
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i'm looking forward to the finale of this awesome Soap opera hahaha! it had me on the edge of my seat! i'm kind of hoping Ark does produce some good results, because the price seems good.
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Old May 20, 2009 | 11:21 AM
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Originally Posted by JETPILOT
I respect your decision to have these evaluated. Get the springs dyno'd as well. I hope you post up the results.

Try these guys... NAAKE
does anyone know of any in socal? im sure there has to be one. if not then well probably have to have them shipped up to NAAKE. thanks for the referral jet.
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Old May 20, 2009 | 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by kaminariZ
i'm looking forward to the finale of this awesome Soap opera hahaha! it had me on the edge of my seat! i'm kind of hoping Ark does produce some good results, because the price seems good.




I just LOVED reading this thread for the past 10 min. I MUST SEE THE ARK RESULTS!!

I was just going to go with springs/shocks and call it a day but if these ARK do the deed....
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Old May 20, 2009 | 04:17 PM
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http://www.maxwellindustries.com/contact_swe.html

http://www.tripointengineering.com/

http://performanceshock.com/
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Old May 22, 2009 | 09:39 AM
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+1 bump

in for the results cuz im poor and need an affordable coilover set up
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Old May 22, 2009 | 10:15 AM
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Originally Posted by danimaldaisy
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obviously yours cost ~3k what do you reccomend for a budget of 1500-2000?
Cusco zero2e
HKS HiperMax 3
KW Variant 3
Bilstein PSS10
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Old May 22, 2009 | 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by ARKperformance
does anyone know of any in socal? im sure there has to be one. if not then well probably have to have them shipped up to NAAKE. thanks for the referral jet.
http://www.maxwellindustries.com/contact_swe.html

I just contacted Steve @ SWE about getting my dyno done since they are local (Venture, CA). I have KW V3 that I want to see and share my graph. I would like a better understanding and of course help from everyone here when I post it up.

If you are interested in going head to head with KW V3. Maybe we can get a meet going and see. I know it is not Zeal but hey I am sure folks here would still like to see. Let me know.

~Robert
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Old May 22, 2009 | 11:50 AM
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anybody want to give me a brief on how to read shock dynos?
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Old May 23, 2009 | 01:49 AM
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Originally Posted by aloh
anybody want to give me a brief on how to read shock dynos?
You can find info here....

Auto X To Win
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Old May 25, 2009 | 04:02 PM
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Looking forward to shock dyno graphs being posted.
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Old Jun 20, 2009 | 01:26 PM
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bump for dynos
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Old Jun 23, 2009 | 05:14 PM
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Hard to find place where to dyno, we call several place to dyno and there is no return call or specific detail information.

We're trying. anyone with socal location? I call Ventura county location and others.. But no infos.
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Old Jun 25, 2009 | 09:30 AM
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Bah...
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Old Jun 27, 2009 | 02:36 PM
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ready
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Old Jul 1, 2009 | 05:45 PM
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Almost. We will try one in Ventura Ca.
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Old Jul 1, 2009 | 07:08 PM
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In for results!
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Old Jul 1, 2009 | 07:43 PM
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I've been watching this for awhile, I guess I'll chime in

I tried them out and I am very satisfied. Gave me the drop that springs couldn't, ride is everything I would ask for in dd coilover, in fact actually better than I was expecting. It's my daily and these coils gave me everything I need them to, good responsive ride and a great drop. No I don't race so I am not able to tell you how well they hold up in that scenario. I drive very spirited on the road and they handle everything I throw at them. I have driven on FK coils, bilstein coils, and kw v1 coils in the vw world and these hold their own if not outperform any of the others.


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Old Jul 1, 2009 | 10:45 PM
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Nice picture ! thank you for sharing your experience with ARK.
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Old Jul 2, 2009 | 05:51 AM
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Why does that blue Z in your pic looked like the front of it is smooshed together?
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