I just got these the other day and installed them. I finally took some pictures.





I like these dampers a lot, they are very strong and holds the hood up nicely. The install was very easy as well. It probably took 30 minutes. Cost me about 125 bucks after ship from raceonusa which is not too bad i guess.

edit
Sorry if the pictures took a long time to load...When i first posted this i forgot the pictures were so huge but i just moved them to my faster server

 

those are some big pictures....looks good...

 

So does the hood stay open, when its up all the way, the only picture is with the hood half way open.

 

oh yeah definitely, I dont think they are meant to be used like that lol (hood open half way) The hood is open all the way in the second picture

 

Did you install those correctly? It looks off

 

Yeah they are installed correctly. What do you see thats off?

 

Just to let you know, they are backwards.



Look at these pics on the Tein website.

 

The shock's "arm" should be extending towards the bottom, not the top. Just flip them around and put some more of the supplied "loc-tite" on.



**edit** I understand the mistake since the supplied directions are written in F.O.B. language and make absolutely no sense.

 

lmao how embarassing, even installed that way, they work great,

thanks for pointing out... i blame the instructions i swear it looks like that in b&W

 

ill do that rite now thanks!

 

Also if you are not feeling the green color, it can be easily sanded off or use paint thinner. I plan on polishing mine soon.

 

yea dude go fix your dampers man hahahaha

 

Lets just turn this into the Tein Hood Damper "show-off" thread.


Here's mine...

 

I wasn't feeling the green either and painted it black. The green is easy to "chip" off but it was a huge PITA. I ended up just painting over the green on the second one after sanding and attempting to "polish" the first. I think it would look awesome polished....just took me too much time.

 

7racer -
are those the asa ar1 wheels? I'm planning on getting some, and wanted to make sure -

 

nope Volk SF winnings..
I did a write up here:
https://www.rx7club.com/forum/showth...t=volk+winning

 

man this loctite stuff is a bitch to take off

 

The only problem with the Tein dampers is they are too strong for carbon fiber hoods from what I've heard. I have Rotary Extremes dampers and they work great. By the way the RE dampers are black to begin with as well.

-Dan

 

At first the Tein dampers are pretty tight but become easier after a few dozen compresses.

 

this is my from rotaryextreme

 

all these pics make me wanna get some hood dampers
lol

 

 

Here's another one, now get some...lol

 

Nice engine bay as always kai. Maybe i missed a thread, but did you ever get that thing dyno'd? I'm really interested in what numbers you put down.

 

did you get the pix of the gt-u i sent you ?