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Hi guys,

About 9 months ago, my stock suspension decided it had enough, and I went to the local Pedders to explore options. They made an offer of fitting various combinations of parts to the car, I test it, and then when we're happy with a set, that becomes the set they sell to local R33's, and I get decent suspension that I've been able to chop and change before settling.

Unfortunately, I then lost my licence.

Now that I'm back on the road, too much time has elapsed for me to take the current suspension back, which is fair enough, but I'm not *quite* happy with the setup.

At the moment, it's got a set of Pedders Sports Ryder springs all round, with KYB shocks on the back and Pedders Touring Black shocks on the front. All the shocks are variable rate, meaning that for gentle movement, it's forgiving, but when pushed (ie, loading up the outside shocks in a hard corner), they harden up. The springs have lowered the car by about 30mm. It was sitting next to a mate's stocker 33 the other day, I was rather surprised by the difference. It's not too low though, which would destroy handling.

It's definitely not a bad setup, far, far better than the stockers, especially on the crappy roads in rocky, and is beautiful and smooth on the highway. It can be fairly sporty, and combind with my whiteline handling kit, there's hardly any body roll around fast corners, but it's not *quite* what I'm looking for.

Basically, I'm after expressions of interest in taking these coilovers off my hands, bearing in mind that it would have to be after I've replaced them with something else. They've done less than 3,000kms, easily, and while I've tested them vigorously, they've never been bashed hard or hurt, and they could be considered 90% new.

I paid $1200 (ex labour) so obviously the final sale price would be somewhat less than that. If you're looking for 'way better than stock, but not as vicious as jap aftermarket' suspension, post a reply or pm, and we can see what we can work out. :rofl:

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I'm not 100% sure how much they cost me in the first place, but probably around 75% of that... I *think* they cost me $250 or a bit more, so maybe $200... if I decided to split it all up. Would prefer to keep them as spring sets.

The other problem I have is that if I sell you my front dampers, I have a very strangely suspended car.

Sorry, don't have any pics of them, and I can't take them out of the car... because I need them to get home. ;)

http://www.pedders.com.au/catalogue.asp?prod=TBG

That's Pedders' site on them. I crawled under the car on wednesday just to confirm it's them up front and the KYB's up the back. I'll let you know what I decide to do with them. Good to know that people are interested, at the very least.

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