There suspension range?

 

The Monoblock stuff is very good....

 

Guess i should have been more specific!

A mates got some 40-mm lowering springs on her escort gti and i had a go in it earlier and it drives mint, not harsh but firmer and corners with hardly any body roll

I just wondered if anyone else recommends them?

 

i got their full race spec monotube coilovers on me 3 door (Ł1k worth lol)

fukkin ace!!!

 

well, i didnt pay for em

 

yeah ok


Ł800 + VAT mind

 

yup

 

I run AVO springs with Bilstein shocks (ok they are on my astra ) and the car handles very very well, a lot better than the spax setup I had before

 

ave a looky at dis

https://passionford.com/forum/viewto...190&highlight=

 

my cars running avo coilovers,spot on for handling totally transformed my car

 

but are they monotube

 

Whoops! Thats not good!! The back end always felt a bit un-predictable to me and it came out more than it should, but with the AVO/Bilstein setup I am VERY impressed

 

Well the damper adjustment snapped off on mine tonight. not fun at all

 

sorry mate i don't rate any other suspension

except bilstien racing coilovers out of the normal what we can afford suspension


proflex/ohilns/regier ect are out of my league and bilstien are affordable for us normal peeps

cheers Marco

 

how much marco?

 

rudey, AVO do 2 sets of coil overs, one you seen Ł500 + VAT are the normal ones, then the race spec monotube obes i got Ł800 + VAT

except i got em free

 

i got avo coilovers on my frst
there the nuts iv had 3 in the back befor with not rubbing and the handeling is spot on

 

Excellent, good comments all round pretty much

 

Benn


you could buy Brand new tarmac spec racing coilovers of Scotty @A1 for about Ł500 for the pair that will include Grp A top monts, Grp a inserts /in new Grp n boddies to fit standard hub either 2wd or 4wd / with collars/ rating about 450/220 or .. 400/150 springs you would have to buy yourself they are cheap anyway

don't get these confussed with the normal Bilstien like Rudey has put up these are in a different league,Sorry Rudey

all you would have to do is get some rose joited magesuim rear coilovers

Tarmac / or gravel

jobs a good un... they can varey from about Ł150 to about Ł400 depending on condtion and even if you bought a knackerd pair you could still get them re-valved from Bilstein themselfs cheap enough

I don't think you can buy these mags new anymore to be honest


all you here from you lot "bloody bilsteins are too hard " theres that many ratings it's unbeliveable

you could have these allround on your motor for about Ł800 now hwo can that be dear for quality suspension suspension brakes is everything on a car not just a fast engine


cheers marco

 

we run avo coilovers apart from the 1st day we fitted them the top snapped off 1 but they replaced it straight away and never had a problem since there quite good compared to gaz

 

I took marco's advice and bought mag Bilsteins.

Awesome Shocks

Dont rate AVO's at all, noisey, clunking, leak and seize.

 

Avo dont do coilovers rear for the s2 do they? Need them for adujstable link setup.

 

I have done ~100km's so far. Still playinbg with settings but they seam to be quite nice suspention. Altough I would probably prefer slightly different valving for conditions here, but in Uk it schould be fine

 

Cheap sums them up.

 

i ran them on my cossy was a lot better than koni or spax

been sat in the shed for 3yrs just bolted them straight on to my xr4x4 and still no problems not leaking or nothing

but will be going bielsteins nxt year as have heard these are a lot better

 

Ryan

all the others leak , bend ,snap been there won't even go back to any off them

and you know what i found the worse of the bunch was fooking leda they leaked every time the car had a bit of abuse they were sent back at leda more times than they were on the car

I have had my Billys on the car for ages + (1yr of rd) and they are still perfect

I tryed loads of tarmac spec coilovers with different ratings untill i was happy

I tryed the mag tarmac rears 350/150 but these were aewsome on track but too hard for the Rd

so i went for the gravel rears insted all my coilovers have very long springs with helper springs


Fronts have 12"springs , rears have 16" springs the longer the spring is better for rd use but not so much for track use but my car is more on the rd than track so you have to draw the line somewhere ]


cheers marco

 

I would only change my bilsteins for something like Ohils/proflex/reiger/

which have the remote resiviors to change damping

forget the rest fit the best "ever rest "

 

Why do you think 800 quid a corner competiion AVO's cannot work?

 

What a funny thread title.... I have just spent 6 minutes looking for ratemyavos.com

What always amazes me is people who rave on about stuff like this have generally just taken the first step up the ladder and come from either standard suspension or slightly tweeked uprated such as Koni/Spax etc, of course they are going to be better thats obvious.

imaloverofcars If your in that bracket above then they will be fine.

 

I couldn't tell you about the racing version of AVO but

i know the rd version coilovers AVO's aren't in the same league as the Bilstein

when you talk to the reps about their product they always say "yes these are the real bizz" so you buy them and then try them and when you find out that they are leaking premiture thay are happy to re do them

I use to use the Grp 4 Bilstein on my Mk2 escort never ever had a problem with them

when i bought the cossie i tryed the Leda's they was shite so i went back to what was tyred and tested
you can't beat word of mouth with stuff that has been tryed and tested simple as that

i wouldn't be a guine pig for any product unless it was tryed and tested i did with the leda never again

Marco

 

Wha about leda coilovers? there not bad