TIEN Flex

[RaceSupplies]

As i say, regardless, you will still get pulled over and given a defect if they want to. I have friends with RX-7's, have gone to the effort of engineering everything to the letter of the law, carry the certificate in their car. When they get pulled over and show it, it means SFA. They *still* get defected.

There is no difference between jap spec or aus spec SS. The valving has minor differences or so Fulcrum says, also spring rate is supposed to be different. Show me what a clevis clamp is because i have been a technician for 6.5 years, and am yet to hear of them. Clevis clamp \"or something like that\" doesn't really mean much. Tell an officer \"they're legal because of the clevis clamp\" and he'll give you a ticket and tell you to get it fixed and the defect cleared.

If you look at Flex, the difference is they have a pillow ball strut top standard, and they have height adjustment on the shock body, although you can adjust on the spring platform. If you really wanted to, i am sure you could get Flex passed through ADR's as they are virtually the same.

If they would pick you up for other things, the suspension would be the least of my concerns!

[bjones]

Hey Im telling you what I was told, pull your head in for a second if I dont know what the technical name is for a piece of metal and a bolt, Im sure if i showed you an Iscsi interface you'd have no idea!!! It is the clamp or whatever the part that holds the holds the \"shock\" damper body thats adjustable other then the spring platform, this is the part they where talking about...

If you think Im bagging your product in anyway, get stuffed and look under my car!!!!!!

Im just saying what i was told by the australian distributer.

The SS are fine for street use.

[RaceSupplies]

Get stuffed? Nice! I'm not going to argue with you. I didn't say you didn't know the technical name because clearly you do.







Very little difference. Those are for different cars, so the style of the shock body is different. If you think an officer will know visually the difference between an Aus Spec Super Street and any other coil over, he won't.

I'll continue to use my Cusco Comp-S. I just hope others don't have issues with their Super Streets on the track which have either been recommended to them by other shops, or if that was their price limit, as they were never designed to be used in that environment. My customers will never have a warranty issue if they follow my advice. My Cusco's are a street shock, virtually the same as SS and i use them on the track, but i expect to have issues. If i did, i'd just throw another set in as they're only cheap (<$2000 a set) and they do the job, but most people don't have the facilities to just throw another set of shocks in if and when they need to, and can't afford to throw a set of shocks at a car if they fail.

Yes, SS are fine for *street* use, if track use is of no interest which i would find hard to imagine. Some people don't want to pay $300 more for the same product though...

[tbro]

please explain, ADRs???. If the dampers are legal in NSW then the engineers at the RTA would have given a approval for this fittment. In\" theory\" once one state gives approval the other states will follow, re: exhaust stacks up or down on trucks.,(except NSW, their a weird mob) ADRs can only be approved by Federal Dept. If Mazda fitted these dampers to any model mx5 then ADRs would have to be obtained, I doubt very much that a distributor would have the money or engineering depts to justify ADRing one range of dampers. having worked for Jap manufacture doing ADR compliancing I know the cost and paperwork required, upwards of $1,000,000 for a complete new model range. Anybody with the paperwork and nouse can have state approval for aftermarket parts but with such a small market why would you bother! Re:signs in accessory shop etc, fitment of some parts may make you vehicle illegal for street use.

[RaceSupplies]

I find it unusual as well, why they would go to such lengths to get *just* the Super Streets done. It has nothing to do with the RTA, as you say. It goes far beyond them. Mazda have never had these fitted to a standard production car.

I can imagine the reaction from an officer when you tell him your coil overs are ADR approved. About the same reaction when you tell him your A048's are DOT approved. It won't mean much!

[RaceSupplies]

Bringing in some jap made CST coil overs for a mate this week, will hopefully have them in soon. All the features of FLEX but at the same price as Super Streets. Pillow ball uppers mounts, adjustable height off the base of the shock, adjustable dampers. They look go so far!