Being a generous person this holiday season, I ordered a gift for my favorite car today. Some Konig Rewinds (Silver). With 195/50/15 Dunlop tires. Should be a nice upgrade from the stock 13s that are a challenge to find performance street tires for.

 

I got a brand new proper same side intercooler.

Santa was good to me.

 

Rewinds look great on FB's. I had the gunmetal ones on mine a few years back. Post pics when you get them

 

Will post some pics once tires are on car. Got KYB GR2 and Racing Beat spring also; so waiting to clean up some rust then get suspension and tires mounted.

I will post some current pics of car, got it about a month ago off BAT.

Third RX-7 I have owned. Like the 1st gen cars the best.

 

I think I saw that one being auctioned on BAT. Was it this one?



Warning, the kyb gr2 won't handle the RB springs for very long.

 

Yep, that the one.

 

Not to hijack the thread - I look foward to the pics. I'm considering the same rims myself...


Why the warning on the KYB GR2's?

 

They're junk.

 

I wouldn't call them junk but they are not rated to or mated to the RB spring rates. So what I
experience with them is porpoising when making wide sweeping turns at speed and some
bounciness. If you don't push your car hard a lot you may not notice these things but as you
do they become apparent. My next set will be adjustable and I may change my springs as well
once I determine what I want.

 

Ha! To the point! I use my car as a daily driver and have had no problems with them whatsoever. I've ran them on several of my cars with no problems. But - I don't autocross or ask a lot of them, either. Sounds like therein lies the rub... Thanks for the info!

 

I say they're junk because I've blown 2 sets of front struts in a 2 year period of street driving.

 

Well I am not planning on auto crossing and heavy track use. And for the price; got entire KYB G strut and shocks with strut mount and strut boots for less than one higher rated strut. RB confirmed that these shocks work fine for spirit street driving. I will upgrade struts and shocks if needed, but will think about RB sway bars before I replace them. I believe in softer spring rate and firmer sway bars for the street.

 

I think you will be thoroughly disappointed with any advice RB gives you for free.

the KYB is a lesser shock absorber than what came on the car STOCK in terms of performance. Bound strength it feels like a trap door opens under you, and rebound so weak that factory springs overpower it, and causes the car to "swim" when on anything but perfectly smooth road.

the suspension is a HUGE part of how your rx7 drives. Spend a little $$ here and get the tokico blues.


Trust me, been there and done that.

 

RB has been "often wrong" on many subjects. Add shock/strut advice to the list.

 

I see that Bilstein offers HD inserts for FC struts now. I wonder if they can be adapted to FB.

 

Well for my RX7, the springs and shocks are 32 years old... think RB springs and KYB should be improvement. I had Tokico blues on a 84 RX7 I had years ago, great shocks; could not find any available... so going KYB for now.

Needed tires, lots of tread but 8 years old... so ordered Konigs with 195/50/15 which should also be a step up from tires on car presently.

I do enjoy the advice and appreciate the input since getting back into RX7 scene.

 

other than muffler construction I've no use for them at all