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EdRogers
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Matching 934 bilsteins?

Isn't this how the story goes...
A month ago I started bleeding my brakes when I noticed one of my front rotors was warped a little bit. Now I'm to the point of completely upgrading the front and rear suspensions. I started with the front. I didn't want to go too extreme with the brakes for reasons of finances. And I really think that a set of big reds would be over-kill.
But I was planning on putting "s" struts and calipers, bilstein preferrably. So, I took my time, and located a set on the net. I negotiated a really good deal for the complete strut assemblies off of a '76 930.
When they finally showed up, I was a little surprised. They turned out to be the threaded coil-over types out of a rsr or a 934 with the dropped spindle. They didn't have the springs attached, just the regular struts. After checking with the local porsche shop I found out the bilstein inserts were the rsr type.
My problem is that I am going to be getting rear shocks soon, and I need to match the fronts with the rears. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can do this?
I will have to be able to put the shocks on the rear of my '70 911t. The porsche shop said that it isn't very strange to have the rsr type inserts on the regular torsion front end, but I didn't ask him about matching the rears while I was there.
If anyone has any experience with this type of strut upgrade, that would be helpful also.
Ed
'70 911T w/930/10

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Ed,

I am certain there are Bilstein dealers out there that handle Bilsteins for the amateur racers that don't have professional budgets, maybe the sport-type would be stiffer than the normal street Bilsteins and compatible with your front struts. If a dealer doesn't know what the various grades' stiffness are, I would keep looking until someone can answer those basic questions.


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Warren Hall
1973 911S Targa
Old 09-30-2000, 12:58 PM
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Another question regarding the struts. The porsche guy that told me about them said that one of the struts has a slightly larger rebound variable, around 5 thousands difference. But compressing the two, you can tell a little difference. Which side should I put the different struts at? Stiffer at the driver side, for the extra weight? Thanks Ed

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