How To: Frankenshock/spring Setup (kyb Agx/canuck Springs)

sooo.96 mustang rears? not foxbodys? foxbody was 84-93...and advance wants like 146 each for agx's for an 89..would stock 84-93 mustang shocks work? i can get them for free at the junkyard...

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Denrée on 02:24:53 PM / 18-May-11Hello

I received back shock absorbers AGX today!

Assembly:

Rear shock received:


Comparison with a shock with the original S12 AGX Mustang




For the shock passes into the bell, you must file a bit to reduce the diameter, or choice, enlarge the holes of the bell, but Me, I did not want to touch the body.




And here it is mounted:




After a short bumpy road test, there is a better, but there is an imbalance with the front. Therefore considered better, I expect to receive before AGX shock. Then I could set the hardness of the shock.

Here the ref:
Front: KYB AGX de Toyota MR2 ref: 765015
Rear: KYB AGX de Ford Mustang ref: 743021

Denrée on 10:50:03 AM / 22-May-11Here are the shock before the shock MR2 on S12

Has the same diameter as that of S12, and it is exactly 40mm shorter. So I cut a piece of stainless steel tube of 40mm to the bottom of the strut.
As the shock arrives at the same level as the original and can be tightened with the ring provided for.


Here hold my 40mm stainless


And here comes the shock of how MR2, just like the original


Then you have to drill the hole in the mound as the suspension rod damper MR2 is larger diameter. So we must drill a 15mm.


And as the thread does not descend not enough, I took three very thick slices to compensate, and we just finally tighten the nut on top. You can see the adjustment screw 4 positions. I am currently on 2 and it is already far more rigid! The only thing con is that when you pierce through the holes encountered at 15mm, it eliminates the "flat" which.


That the damper tightly.

why did you have to grind the shot none of us had to do that thats weird man..... shorten your tubes ppl get the most outta the setup! ill be selling my front shortened tubes ready for agx and 280zx coils shortly here as imma be doing a F31/R31 leopard skyrine setup

how much for shortened tubes shipped to washington?

EightySix200SX on 03:44:19 PM / 26-May-11 shorten your tubes ppl get the most outta the setup!

EightySix200SX on 08:04:17 PM / 04-Feb-11my setup w/ sw20 agx and 40mm shortend s12 tubes


this is how low i am now it can go lower but why? lol



even at this ride height i dont rub at all. fenders are rolled so... performs well in competitive driving at this ride height so imma leave it easy to daily and grips well

before on stock shocks and canucks:

after. on 1.5 cut coils and mustang rear shocks. still stock blown front shocks lol. 195/45/15 on a 15x8 +0 wheel.

sits ok, i want it a little lower, but the rear camber is insane.

can i get away with running stock struts on canuck lowering springs for drifting? I don't have any fab knowledge. can i just hit up auto zone and buy the top of the line struts and put the canucks on em and drift without blowing em? they total out to be 150 for all 4 the most expensive ones they sell at autozone.

from everything i have read the stock struts are too long of a stroke for the canuck springs and blow out quickly, especially while drifting.

does anyone want to sell me a front and rear kyb setup for my 87 s12 notch ca20e i can't fab so there's no way in hell i can get that done. for now i will just have to rock canucks on my stocks no other choice.

So just for the record, I began chopping and shortening the tubes for the mr2 front shocks, got the whole thing all nicely welded together and painted, back in the car ready to go, and my wheels didn't fit because they hit the lower spring cup on the strut tube.  this was just a stupid mistake, not thinking enough about it before doing it, but just to give a heads up for anyone trying this with stock wheel spacing and coils that are same width as stock.  hopefully I am getting something with zero offset soon and I am going to roll my fenders outwards to keep em covered up.

i rub stock with lowering springs on stock struts in the front idk why that shit happens either

You don't need to roll your fenders with zero offset wheels if you just run 195's in the front. All I had to do was grab my fender lips with my hands and pull up hard a few times to tweak them. Now they fit great. The wheel lip is outside the fender lip but a 195 keeps the tire inside the lip:

i got cannucks on my hatch,

how much should i cut off of my rear coils to level the car put?

id say 1 or 2 of the dead coils