Originally Posted by cthree,Oct 4 2007, 11:28 AM

You can do that with any of the shocks discussed. You put it on a shock dyno, run some software, spit out some numbers and have them re-valved accordingly. Simply revalving a basic shock is nothing like starting out with a vastly better designed shock. Your steel bodies oil-filled, marginally adjustable koni yellows don't hold a candle to a similar rebound adjustable shock such as an Ohlins and compared to something like a JRZ or Moton aren't even in the same galaxy.

You get what you pay for. Are $3000 Ohlins really that much better than $1000 Koni's? And then some. My single adjustable Ohlins are better shocks than my Motons, they just lack the adjustment capability. Even with adjustment, my car handles no better and is no faster around the track with Moton Club Sports than it was with the Ohlins, and that's with one of them leaking oil.

On the shock food chain:

Ohlins
JRZ
Moton
KW (motorsport, not v3)
Penske
Tein
KWv3
Koni
stock

It's not coincidence that these are arranged by feature cost.

The ultimate coilover IMHO is a Ohlins 46HRX kit but unfortunately nobody has developed one yet.