KW Suspension on my GT3

[johnfm]

Just got back from a 1700 mile trip to the KW factory in Germany. The GT3 is now as nature intended!! It has so much more poise through corners - no mid corner correcting as bumps upset the car. Now you set the car and it just does its thing.

Though I can recommend the suspension, I don't recommend doing 1700 miles in two days!! There were some highlights though - a visit to Manthey, Carcraphic and Gemballa while I was there. There was a K440 Manthey for sale - it looked absolutely mint and was 'just' Euro 102k!! Cargraphic had their new GT3 based 4.0 litre car - very impressive. Gemballa was like a candy store!!

[polarexpress]

Did you get the monoball strut tops? They make a big difference...

[johnfm]

I use my car mainly on the road. I got the variant 3 coilovers. The existing suspension was shagged - possibly original with 40k miles pn them! The rear left was leaking and I had them put it on a damper dyno - it was hardly doing any damping at all.
Re: monoballs, they also have the motorsport coilovers (at circa 5000 euro a set) which have adjustable high and low speed damping. But for what I use the car for, it would have been overkill.

A really impressive set upo they have there - good attention to quality.

[Pheedbak]

dont mean to be thickie McThick but why did you go all the way to germany for some shockers? Is it much cheaper this way or were you hoping for a better service over there?

Reason i ask is im thinking of getting some KW on the 968 and will be over in germany at the 'ring soonish ...

ta

Phil

[johnfm]

I went there to meet the guys, tour the factory etc for Total911 magazine. Ordinarily, you could just buy a set and cut out the 1700 mile drive!!

[Pheedbak]

k makes sense .. and there i was hunting for a bargain

[slippydiff]

John, where these KW V3's or Mantheys fettled version of the same ?

Edited by slippydiff on Thursday 29th March 22:23