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Re: What exactly is an Arc? Posted by Snowmobile [Email]  (#686)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Snowmobile) on Sun, 9 Feb 2014 03:18:07
In Reply to: Re: What exactly is an Arc?, rickw, Sat, 8 Feb 2014 20:54:49 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Arcs are different for various years, but for the most part, they are a more powerful, more luxurious linear. So V6 for -03, and 04/05 was 2.3L but with the bigger turbo, just not as boosty as the Aero (220hp). Some (many?) of the older Arcs came with the sought after ventilated seats (you can tell by the perforations). That would be a nice upgrade if the wiring is there (never checked this and might depend on year). Other than that, I'm pretty sure the seats are about the same as the linear (of a given year). Aero gets sport seats (which are more supportive, not that linear is bad as cars go, just less sporty).
Imho, you could probably reuse the front shocks - at 60k, they should be fine. However, the rear shocks may not have a lot of life left in them. How you ever got 156k miles on your first set is beyond me - we had to replace ours at 80k and that seems about the norm on this bb. If you are ok with maybe redoing this in 30k, go ahead. I would just extract the whole tower assy from each corner at the junkyard, and take all the parts home, not just the shocks. You might not need to order anything new that way... I mostly reused parts at 80k. Be aware that there may be some corrosion and a bit of a fight to get parts off if you have limited time for penetrating fluid to soak in. Hopefully access is good in the boneyard. Bring a *big* breaker bar! If you search here, you will find lots of threads on shock replacement, and if you take the assy's home, clean off the dirt/rust from the threads and soak the top nuts in penetrating fluid etc, you should be able to disassemble without damage to the shock such that you can reuse (many cut them in half to speed disassembly, but imho that is completely unnecessary). See link below.
Anyway, by 80k, our arc wallowed over bumps. replacing with konis tightened things up dramatically, but it is still a comfortable touring car, not a sports car... in case that clarifies the Arc vs Linear vs Aero.
One other note: if you just want a year or 2 out of them, you might be just fine replacing the rears with cheap new shocks like monroe or kyb and the cost might be the same. I wouldn't do it myself (only because I value my time and quality parts), but many here have done that and been happy with the results.
good luck
easy removal of top nut with picture
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