Sagaris shock absorbers

[RAS]

The roads around where I live are so bad that driving the sag anywhere near road legal speeds is becoming an unpleasant experience, that said on a level road its a joy.

Out of frustration, against my better judgement, I'm thinking of changing the shocks for something softer.

Just wondering if anyone else has gone down a similar route and what they chose and if they are happy with the results.

[Gladers01]

RAS said:

The roads around where I live are so bad that driving the sag anywhere near road legal speeds is becoming an unpleasant experience, that said on a level road its a joy.

Out of frustration, against my better judgement, I'm thinking of changing the shocks for something softer.

Just wondering if anyone else has gone down a similar route and what they chose and if they are happy with the results.

Not owned a Sag but have used adjustable Nitrons with Eibach springs on the Tuscans previously to soften/firm up the ride for the road and the odd track day and would highly recommend them

Alternatively you might be able to soften the ride with your existing set up presumably Bilsteins with Eibach springs?

[anonymous-user]

RAS said:

The roads around where I live are so bad that driving the sag anywhere near road legal speeds is becoming an unpleasant experience, that said on a level road its a joy.

Out of frustration, against my better judgement, I'm thinking of changing the shocks for something softer.

Just wondering if anyone else has gone down a similar route and what they chose and if they are happy with the results.

Spring rates and re-valved shocks it sounds like you need

[900T-R]

Intrax with Anti-Roll Control. You can soften the spring rates for comfort, traction and progression and still have tight body control and immediate response the moment you turn the wheel. It's awesome

[hoofa]

This is far better semi active suspension by tractive, changes dynamically to the road conditions , you set hardness, pitch, roll from inside the car

[alex_gray255]

hoofa said:

This is far better semi active suspension by tractive, changes dynamically to the road conditions , you set hardness, pitch, roll from inside the car

Interesting - which product from them was fitted?
https://tractivesuspension.com/product-category/ca...

[hoofa]

It’s the tractive R_ACE units and hypercoil springs

[alex_gray255]

hoofa said:

It’s the tractive R_ACE units and hypercoil springs

Thanks! Another thing for the Sag backlog then

[gruffalo]

alex_gray255 said:

hoofa said:

It’s the tractive R_ACE units and hypercoil springs

Thanks! Another thing for the Sag backlog then

Meteor Motorsport supply and fit this system.

It looks very good!

[Gladers01]

alex_gray255 said:

hoofa said:

It’s the tractive R_ACE units and hypercoil springs

Thanks! Another thing for the Sag backlog then

Which is the 'active' part that can be controlled on the fly from within the cabin, is it rebound only or both rebound and compression ?

[gruffalo]

Gladers01 said:

alex_gray255 said:

hoofa said:

It’s the tractive R_ACE units and hypercoil springs

Thanks! Another thing for the Sag backlog then

Which is the 'active' part that can be controlled on the fly from within the cabin, is it rebound only or both rebound and compression ?

When I was talking to Meteor about this it is both, can also be set to automatically stiffen up the loaded side of the car when corning hard while softening the unloaded side of the car. They tried it on a car at the Ring and apparently it made a huge difference to lap times especially whe n it started raining and they could soften up the car while driving.

[blackiepaul]

has anyone put one on air-ride yet?

[fredd1e]

Sagaris spec Bilstein shocks arent harsh in my experience and i would expect they have the best bump compliance of any of the options except perhaps ohlins. Spring rates could be reduced or changed to variable rate ones but its a faff to decide / locate suitable specs/ supplies and could bring other issues like bottoming out more readily (at rear especially ) . I’m running sag billies on my T350 with variable rate / static rate dual springs on rear ( eibachs i found on ebay) and a softer rate than sag on the front. The sag billies have progressive bump rubbers that are much improved over original T350 billies or older HB shocks and help when the natural behaviour of the t-car chassis wants to blow through all the rear suspension travel on an undulating road. I think this later feature is why sag springs are a lot stiffer than t350 or even Tuscan S rates along with the move of the wishbone pick up locations but thats more a guess .

[s6boy]

Off the back of this thread I've just put my brand new (well100 mile old) Gaz gold pros in the classifieds with the idea of going for a big up grade.