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Koni install...Cutting stock housing...? *help*

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Koni install...Cutting stock housing...? *help*

Post by Cascino » July 07, 2005

Has anyone ever had to cut 40mm off of your stock strut housing to get the Konis to fit?
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Post by .saint » July 07, 2005

weird.
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Post by Cascino » July 07, 2005

ya its an em thing...u have to cut 40mm off the top of it, take out the factory struts(internals) and drop in the konis.
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Post by tommybanzai » July 08, 2005

talk to ihavemorecarbonfiberthanyou (or however you spell that) , he would know. i never heard of that before...and i'd be 100% sure before i started hacking
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Post by .saint » July 10, 2005

yeah i agree with tommy but your not going to be able to get ahold of knepper no more thanks to his 10+ 'hi' posts he is gone. i dunno what his deal is..

i never heard of cutting a strut before and honestly that dont sound right at all koni makes parts that are direct plug and play. if it involves cutting a strut or spring or anything of the sort i think you got a wrong part. expecially if it says 40MM and not like... 1/4 inch or something.
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Post by munster » July 11, 2005

I never heard of cutting them. I wouldn't actually. As far as I know Knepper is still on stock anyhow. Just springs. For the reason that no one had struts made for the car at the time.
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Post by mr.green » July 13, 2005

The Koni's are inserts for the original housing.... and are over priced as well for what you get. I've had Both Koni's and Tokico's and the later are much better IMO. Plus the Tokico's in this application come with the complete assembly brand new. You do have to cut/grind/dig out the factory cartridge. Send them back and buy tokico's. I have a lot of experience in EM chassis and used tokicos on them, very nice.
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Post by Cascino » July 17, 2005

awesome, thank green :up:
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Post by ls.pwrd.hb. » July 17, 2005

thats weird as hell
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Post by centurioncivic » September 27, 2005

yes that is right about cutting the strut housing. I know someone that did it and said its a big hassel and they have the tendency to rattle around once you drop the kponi down inside the stock strut housing. you must do this because koni didnt make the struts with a control arm(?) the arm thing that conects to your tie tod end, therfore having to use the stock. make sure you measure twice and only cut once because you dont wanna fuck it up.
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