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Old Mar 12, 2011 | 09:36 PM
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Originally Posted by jah29
How much does the stock set-up weigh? - I don't know enough to decide if that's a significant weight loss Ohlins has achieved...

thanks for posting all the photos and info. These are now on my short list for 2011
I think it is since the others are already much lighter than stock. I'll see if I can get my hands on some stock units and weigh them.
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Old Mar 12, 2011 | 09:49 PM
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Some installed pics

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Comp and Reb in one place is nice
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Old Mar 13, 2011 | 12:59 PM
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Originally Posted by macr88
I think it is since the others are already much lighter than stock. I'll see if I can get my hands on some stock units and weigh them.
You're welcome
Stock units are 13lbs each.
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Old Mar 14, 2011 | 11:30 AM
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Any trouble with sway bar clarance in the front? My Gendron front bar is vary close to my Koni's and these look bigger.
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Old Mar 15, 2011 | 06:12 PM
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I'm only running the CR bar with stock end links and it clears by maybe a 1/4" or so. Not really sure about the Gendron bar though If you have any ideas of how to measure for it let me know.
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Old Mar 18, 2011 | 07:52 AM
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Thanks, It was more cursorily than anything (looking for a reason I can't have them). I had a Ohlins shock on one of my dirt bikes and it was incredible. I really want these but I cannot justify the price, and I would still be a hack behind the wheel, but I still want them.
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Old Mar 20, 2011 | 01:25 AM
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Originally Posted by rjones
Thanks, It was more cursorily than anything (looking for a reason I can't have them). I had a Ohlins shock on one of my dirt bikes and it was incredible. I really want these but I cannot justify the price, and I would still be a hack behind the wheel, but I still want them.
I also had an ohlins on my bike and loved it.
I tried to go the cheap route and valve some bilsteins but I just couldn't get what I was looking for out of them. After seeing these and always thinking back to how well my ohlins worked on my bike I just couldn't resist and I'm glad I didn't.
I'm not going to be winning anything with these so payback kinda sucks but I tend to keep cars for quite some time and figured these would hopefully be the last suspension setup I buy for the car. I've gone through four sets of suspension setups on my camry so I figured I'd be paying one way or the other, I might as well pay now and be happy with what I'm running.
I'm still the same slow driver I was before except much more comfortable

I was lucky enough to get to try 5 different setups on my S as well as many revalves on the bilsteins and none have come close to how well these work.
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Old Mar 23, 2011 | 10:59 PM
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Originally Posted by rjones
Any trouble with sway bar clarance in the front? My Gendron front bar is vary close to my Koni's and these look bigger.
The reservoir diameter is 64.3mm and I have roughly 7-8mm of clearance to the stock end links on a stock bar from the reservoir.
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Old Mar 23, 2011 | 11:07 PM
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Oh man that is gorgeous! I am jealous beyond belief!
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Old Mar 24, 2011 | 01:15 PM
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Thanks for all of your positive reviews. We are looking forward to getting some more of these kits into the community. BTW, we have an aluminum 'P' clamp that we will send you for the front brake line. You should see them in your mailbox on Monday.
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