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Re: Rear Shocks Bump
Posted by John Miller (more from John Miller) on Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:46:10
In Reply to: , Kok Chen, Sat, 17 Dec 1988 12:00:00 

> It is my experience that aftermarket 'performance' (koni, Kyb, Bilstien,
> Tokiko) shocks generally increase ride harshness from stock.

True to some extent, but it depends on the shock and the market it's sold 
to.

> Any of these companies cannot spend nearly as much development time on
> shocks as the OEM in any case.

Ah, but there you missed.

Tokico is, I believe, the largest OEM to the Japanese auto industry, and 
sells a fair number to Detroit (Ford comes to mind) as well.

Bilstein is a branch of Krupp, they are also huge, and do a lot of OEM 
business all over the world including most high-end GM products.

Koni is part of ITT, they do not do a lot of OEM shocks under their own 
brand name (though ITT Automotive is big in this area) but do much 
consulting and testing for OEMs and have decades of expertise in areas an 
OEM the size of Saab (at least pre-GM Saab) had no clue about.

Kayaba (KYB) is a sizeable company, I'm not sure how big their shock 
organization is or how much OEM business they do.

That isn't to say these companies always sell the same calibrations to the 
aftermarket as they do to OEMs, but they do generally know what they're 
doing, and certainly some of these firms have to be accorded as being the 
best in their field.

> As the development is mostly subjective and unpredictable without
> installing on a car, I would always put OEM shocks on if I want to
> maintain OEM ride and handling.

This is a valid assessment, though I'm generally inclined to favor Bilstein 
where a specific application is available.

John.
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