F456M
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Hi guys.
Again, thanks for a great forum! I have a 2003 Maserati Coupe Cambiocorsa with Skyhook suspention. The car has been lowered on the coil-over-style shock absorbers about 3 cms according to an old service bill from Maserati. There is nothing written about replacing the springs to lowering springs, so I ampretty confident that the springs are the factory springs. The way one make the car lower, is to reduce the spring tention by lowering the retaining but and corresponding bottom spring support. This acutally makes the spring be weaker and the car tend to bottom the shockers oon active driving and the car is like a boat to steer at high speed on bumpy roads....
Now the other day, I got a measurement fromanother 4200 owner who has broken the car for part sales. I am going to adjust my shcks back to factory spec, and my question to you is if the shocker/spring unit is the same for a Skyhook versus a non-Skyhook car... According to Eurospares part list, the standard and "sport" suspention (I assume these are the Skyhook ones) are different...
What would be really great would be to get a measurement from the retaining nut at the bottom of the sping to the very bottom of the shocker unit on another Skyhook car so I can duplicate that. Has anyone a set of front + rear shockers that they could measure and ost the length here? Would be very very convenient!
I attach the Pictures which shows 19 cm on the front shocks and 22 on the rear shocks on the std. Coupe Cambiocorsa (I neetd to check if this is a Skyhook car if I manage to get the answer from someone). The seller of the shocks is a breaker, so he does not know muchh about the car at all...
Thanks.
Erik
Again, thanks for a great forum! I have a 2003 Maserati Coupe Cambiocorsa with Skyhook suspention. The car has been lowered on the coil-over-style shock absorbers about 3 cms according to an old service bill from Maserati. There is nothing written about replacing the springs to lowering springs, so I ampretty confident that the springs are the factory springs. The way one make the car lower, is to reduce the spring tention by lowering the retaining but and corresponding bottom spring support. This acutally makes the spring be weaker and the car tend to bottom the shockers oon active driving and the car is like a boat to steer at high speed on bumpy roads....
Now the other day, I got a measurement fromanother 4200 owner who has broken the car for part sales. I am going to adjust my shcks back to factory spec, and my question to you is if the shocker/spring unit is the same for a Skyhook versus a non-Skyhook car... According to Eurospares part list, the standard and "sport" suspention (I assume these are the Skyhook ones) are different...
What would be really great would be to get a measurement from the retaining nut at the bottom of the sping to the very bottom of the shocker unit on another Skyhook car so I can duplicate that. Has anyone a set of front + rear shockers that they could measure and ost the length here? Would be very very convenient!
I attach the Pictures which shows 19 cm on the front shocks and 22 on the rear shocks on the std. Coupe Cambiocorsa (I neetd to check if this is a Skyhook car if I manage to get the answer from someone). The seller of the shocks is a breaker, so he does not know muchh about the car at all...
Thanks.
Erik