Originally Posted by lvietlboyl,Jul 6 2006, 08:00 PM

Does anyone know how many miles until you have to rebuild the KWs?

Originally Posted by cthree,Jul 7 2006, 09:06 AM

I realize what he is saying and I'm saying that he's wrong (or at least I don't agree). I'm saying that you will notice the difference in the shocks all the time whether you are driving 5/10ths or 10/10ths, whether you are going down the street for milk and bread or trying to shave 0.2s off you best lap.

The difference in the performance of the shocks is not something that kicks in above a certain threshold it's there all the time in the level of stability, control and confidence you feel in the car and is most noticeable on bumpier surfaces and when clipping apex burms by how planted and stable the car remains as the surfaces changes.

For example, when I would drive over burms with Konis you could feel the car hop and bounce. It was unsettling to the driver and the car and so you would drive to compensate. With the Ohlins it stays glued to the track. When your suspension can be counted on like that you will naturally turn better times but regardless of that you will definitely notice the difference both in the car and in your driving style.

The stock shocks are good, the Konis better, KWv3s better still and Penske and Ohlins better yet. At the top of the pile you have JRZ, Moton and even Ohlins of you are willing to develop your own kit. I chose to stay with the single adjustable model for now until I learned what compression adjustment would do for me and how I could dial it in without making a complete disaster of it. Too much of a good thing in my case. I'm able to adjust rebound and I now have a pretty good feel for what that does in terms of handling on various tracks. I may choose to go with 3-way shocks when I prep my car for racing later this year. I've had an offer from Ohlins to help develop a new kit for the S2000 with one of their partners and I may take them up on it but that's undecided.

Originally Posted by vax,Jul 8 2006, 11:25 AM

That is the problem, I had Kws on my old BMW and the time is short

I prefer Teins

Originally Posted by cthree,Jul 7 2006, 07:06 PM

I'm saying that you will notice the difference in the shocks all the time whether you are driving 5/10ths or 10/10ths, whether you are going down the street for milk and bread or trying to shave 0.2s off you best lap.

Originally Posted by Harpoon,Jul 8 2006, 03:45 PM

Do it, do it , do it!

You can't even get Ohlins in the US now unless you're willing to do the crazy-import-thing from Japan.

Originally Posted by cthree,Jul 8 2006, 07:55 PM

That's a neat trick considering they're Swedish

You can get them. Call Ohlins. Their number is on their website which seems to be down at the moment http://www.ohlins.com

Originally Posted by zbrewha863,Jul 11 2006, 12:02 AM

First, do the KWv3s have external resavoirs? I don't see any, and haven't seen it mentioned on any product descriptions.