Rear End Suspension

[Leandro]

Alright.....

Well this morning mattyshop and myself headed down to autobahn to finally figure out WTF is th go with rear suspension and to see what shocks we could get for the rear of an ae86 that are short stroke.
There are always people asking the same questions about rear suspension for ae86's and i just went throught the whole exercise myself so here's what has been learnt.

If you have 200mm free height springs no body kit (or dont care how low the kit gets to the ground) then suzuki sierra shocks are for you.... they are rediculousy short, they apprently hand alright and are rather hard as well.

Sierra
Brand: Kyb
Ext: 399
Comp: 250
Product Number: 343185

Next if you have a reasonable spring size such as a trd blue spring which are around 250mm free height approx then you have the ability to go for a kyb shock for hk-ht Monaro's from holden. These are alot better shocks are not as rediculous as the sierras, but rather are softer.

HK-HT Monaro
Brand: Kyb
Ext: 470
Comp: 280mm approx (from memory)
Product Number: 343081

Finally you have the last shock which we found that worked which is used ina holden station wagon of some description. These are harder than the above shock 343081 but are also a little longer in the stroke but not that far off.

Holden Station Wagin
Brand Kyb
Ext: 490
Comp: Approx 290-300mm
Product Number: 343113

If you in brisbane and near the South Side the Autobarn in logan city slacks creek is the place to go. The guy there by the name of Daniel is extremely helpful and patient and spent ages with matty and myself checking shit out so give him a shout lol (we warned him)

All of these shocks cost around the $ 59 mark and are reasonable perfomance upgrades.

However with this said in no way am i saying that what i have said he is set in stone. This is from my own research and others may know differently and alot more than me so use this very losely as a guide.

Hope it helped.....


and thank to mattyshop again for coming over and helping and for also missing the flying trampoline on the compton rd hahah reaction time of a fighter pilot i tells ya hahahahahah


Leandro

[v-tec]

Good stuff fellas, awesome to see someone going out of their way to be informative.

I used Sierras in the rear of my car, and i cant see anything wrong with them.

[driftism]

good article, another alternative that i used in my old car were MK2 escort shocks, these were really short, but i'm not sure about the lengths or part numbers. will try and get these so they can be added.

[rthy]

i have used both the sierra and monaro

i used the sierra shocks with gt4 front shock and t3 mr2 gland nut with good results (had 2 cut bump stops, use rca's, adj panhard), even had to cut the springs and even then was very very captive.

looks like this


i used the monaro with pedder low springs, much better than the sport pedder short stroke sport ryde

also stock ae86 kyb part no
Front 365015 Rear 343036

[ke70dave]

ahh finally this gets its own thread, thanks heaps Leandro!

if some people could throw up some pics showing the ride heights they achieve with these setups, that would be even better!!

[rthy]

i had a pic someplace that was side on to give u an idea

[chapl]

the peugeot 505 shocks work to... ill find out more info

[Joel-AE86]

^^^Hook up!

I've never used the sierra shocks, but they sound a lil too short stroke.

The KYB HK-HT Monaro shocks are not stiff enough to my liking when using low 6.5kg/mm springs.

I'm after something around 260mm comp and stifffer than these KYB's.

[keiichi]

hey does anyone know of anything thats shorter stroke then sierras? cause im looking.

[gottago]

looking into the rear springs with the sierra short stroke shock combo.
what springs would suite? i heard ford falcon AU rear springs work good? but they need a few coils cut off?
im after a legal rear end combo. can anyone point me in the direction?
no bodykit bare ke70 with flared guards, what would suit?
i want sumthing setup for drift i dont really care about ride quality, excessive bumping doesnt bother me at all haha