By mariusz (203.134.17.8) on Thursday, April 26, 2001 - 02:16 am:

Will these fit the 75' 1200 without mods?

If so can anyone in the US get them for me?

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Mariusz

By Don (209.181.52.37) on Thursday, April 26, 2001 - 07:14 am:

Yes they will fit, and they are geting hard to find but if you want the next set I run across are yours.

I think the 73-74 strut casings with the front koni inserts all the way around would be a good choice, and they are actually easy to shorten in the front by taking off the nub, and cutting down the housing. + you can get these
The rears will have to have a piece of tube welded to the nub to stabilize it. and the total extended length is shorter than OEM. All this info was gathered from looking at both types of koni inserts and casings.
I think RaceCraft may have some practical experience with this. What do others have to say? I'm about to cut down one type or the other and any advise will be great!!

By Charles (137.219.16.107) on Thursday, April 26, 2001 - 03:24 pm:

The front dry inserts will drop into both the front and rear openable strut casings. The rear needs a spacer dropped in underneath and very slight mods to the top mount to suit.

The wet kits will go into non openable strut casings with a lot of work. They need to be sleeved (the casings) and threaded tops need to be made up and welded to the top of the tubes. While going to this much effort you may as well take an inch off the shaft and an inch of the body. This reduces total extended shock length by 2 inches but still gives the same amount of travel. It also allows you to lower the car up to 3.5 inches with your coils still held captive.

It is a lot of tedious lathe work to get all this bang on but the results are great. Best of all they are then fully rebuildable.

I have never seen the cvcc casing that would take the wet kits but if they fit on (assume they would) then this is a very easy swap but you are still stuck with stock height.

Remember when you buy the wet kits you also have to outlay a small bit on new seals. They are always cactus. As the inserts are sealed it is hard to comment on the condition of the seals but I guess the oil they have had in them would have maintained seal durability.

By Don (209.181.52.27) on Thursday, April 26, 2001 - 06:02 pm:

Thanks for the info! I have a some 75 CVCC wet struts. I think they may be USA only. This is why you guys in Australia have a hard time getting them?
The wet struts inserts are actually longer than the dry strut insert with the nub removed. this is why I'm going to use the 73-74 setup to get my car on the track until I figure out what I can cut to allow me to shorten the wet casing for more travel with the dropped suspension.

By Charles (137.219.117.127) on Thursday, April 26, 2001 - 08:12 pm:

With the wet insert you cut off the top of the shaft on a lathe and mill up a new end the same as the original. With the sleeve you pull off the locating spring wire and cut off how ever much you need on the lathe again. Do the same with your strut bodies (ie take out the same length section as you took off the sleeve) and reweld. In Australia we never got the CVCC engines. Our 1500s and 1600s were non cvcc, we never got the 1800 (EK).

Charles

By Don (209.181.52.41) on Thursday, April 26, 2001 - 08:18 pm:

Charles, thanks a million! Like they say no substitute for experience.