NEW 911 Suspension Wizard

[Eugene at Pelican Parts]

For your convenience, we've put together yet another parts Wizard to help you work on your favorite air-cooled car. Check it out by clicking the link below!

Based on projects in Wayne Dempsey's best-seller, "101 Projects For Your Porsche 911", the Pelican Parts 911 Suspension Wizard will guide you through all the steps required to obtain and source the parts for your complete suspension overhaul.  Walking you carefully through each step, the 911 Suspension Wizard helps you choose the parts that you need for your overhaul, while making sure that you don't end up with the wrong parts or something that you don't need.  Through 12 easy-to-follow steps, the Wizard guides you through the entire process and discusses upgrade options for your suspension system.    Click here to view the 911 Suspension Wizard!

As always, your opinions and feedback are welcome, so please let us know what you think - especially if something doesn't look right or you find an error. Suggestions or corrections can be sent directly to eugene@pelicanparts.com. I hope you find this new Wizard useful!

[Randy Webb]

Dang - it says I should put the entire 993 rear suspension into my '73....

[Beethoven]

Man, that's a great service. Thanks!

[turbocarrera]

I can't express how much I appreciate that. I just broke "something" in my pass side front and I know absoloutely nada about 930 suspension(the wheel has about 5 degrees too much neg camber now and makes a serious "click" if I jerk the wheel hard left).

I'll read it right after my friday night beer binge! Once again, thank-you thank-you thank-you.

[GeorgeK]

"Elephant Racing, Front PolyBronze Suspension Bushings (set of 4), 912/911 (1968-73) $237.50"

Shouldn't that read (1968-89)? What do I fit to my '76 and '83??

[Eugene at Pelican Parts]

Originally posted by GeorgeK
"Elephant Racing, Front PolyBronze Suspension Bushings (set of 4), 912/911 (1968-73) $237.50"

Shouldn't that read (1968-89)? What do I fit to my '76 and '83??

Good catch. You are correct. I'll fix this Monday.

Keep 'em coming!

[Tim Walsh]

I'm going to be rebuilding my suspension pretty quickly and when I went through the wizard I nearly put 2 sets of bushings in the basket (both on step 7 and 11.

[golfnow]

I was hoping this would be the next wizard you did
Thank you

[frankc]

I have a '77 911 with OE Koni's. When looking for Koni front struts, I don't see an option for my car in either the std or sport version, only for cars w/Boge. Should the description for the line item for cars equipped w/factory Koni's read (1974-1977) instead of (1974) since Koni's where offered up to '77, I believe?

Also, is there an externally adjustable Koni front strut available for my (Koni) strut housing?

thanks,
Frank

[bairdc3]

Great, now how do I tell my wife I need $5,000.00 to complete my wizard :-)

[Tim Walsh]

Also on step 9 this doesn't seem to have a price

Front Sway Bar Drop Link Bushing Set, Poly-Graphite, for stock bar (set of 4), 911/912 (1965-73)

[juanbenae]

will this wizard you speak of come over and help with the install? kinda like kazoo on the flintstones? except with a full race helmet and fire suit.....

[Eugene at Pelican Parts]

Alrighty... the aforementioned errors have been corrected.

Originally posted by turbocarrera
[B]the wheel has about 5 degrees too much neg camber now and makes a serious "click" if I jerk the wheel hard left).

I hope you're not still driving it! Which wheel are you talking about?

Originally posted by frankc
[B]I have a '77 911 with OE Koni's. When looking for Koni front struts, I don't see an option for my car in either the std or sport version, only for cars w/Boge. Should the description for the line item for cars equipped w/factory Koni's read (1974-1977) instead of (1974) since Koni's where offered up to '77, I believe?

Also, is there an externally adjustable Koni front strut available for my (Koni) strut housing?

The Koni 'Special' insert for your car was accidentally omitted, but unfortunately, they do not make an adjustable Sport insert to fit Koni struts (or at least they don't anymore).

Originally posted by Tim Walsh
[B]I'm going to be rebuilding my suspension pretty quickly and when I went through the wizard I nearly put 2 sets of bushings in the basket (both on step 7 and 11.

Do you think the Bushing page (Step 11) is a little too redundant? If it makes the wizard that much more confusing, then perhaps we'll nix it.

[KobaltBlau]

Eugene, are those spring plate bushings really polycarbonate, and not polyurethane? We discussed this in a thread a little while ago, and the consensus was that polycarbonate would be a poor material for bushings, and that it was probably an error on the site. I could be wrong, just wanted to bring this to your attention, here's the thread

[Eugene at Pelican Parts]

Originally posted by KobaltBlau
Eugene, are those spring plate bushings really polycarbonate, and not polyurethane? We discussed this in a thread a little while ago, and the consensus was that polycarbonate would be a poor material for bushings, and that it was probably an error on the site. I could be wrong, just wanted to bring this to your attention, here's the thread

Thanks Andy. You (and Chuck) are correct. The bushings we sell are Weltmeister Poly-Graphite. I'm not sure why they were labeled otherwise.

[Tim Walsh]

Eugene,
The double listing of the bushings is a little confusing. My sugestion would be nix one or the other. At first look I would say nix the bushings section and put the monoballs in step 7 and/or the shock section.

[KobaltBlau]

Cool, Eugene. (and it's already fixed in the wizard, although not yet in the regular catalog (no hurry)! somebody's workin' )

[frankc]

Eugene,
Thanks for adding the Koni entries for 75-89 models. This is a very nice tool you put together.

I do have one more comment/question regarding the lack of an externally adjustable Koni insert for my Koni struts. I was looking at the Koni website yesterday and saw this for 75-89 911's:

"Sport front can be used with OE Koni struts if gland nut 73.25.01.011.1 is ordered as well."

Has anyone tried this setup? Is this the part that you mention is NLA?

thanks again,
Frank

[Eugene at Pelican Parts]

Originally posted by frankc
"Sport front can be used with OE Koni struts if gland nut 73.25.01.011.1 is ordered as well."

Has anyone tried this setup? Is this the part that you mention is NLA?

Interesting... I was not aware of that note until you pointed it out. I was referencing www.koni.com, while I just realized you found that off of www.koni-na.com - slightly more detailed. Still, I unfortunately do not know what a 73.25.01.011.1 is, but will attempt to investigate it further. Thanks for the info; I hope someone else can contribute.

[efhughes3]

a LOT of duplication....