M030 underbits
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sawood12
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M030 were Koni dampers and Promax refurbishes them amongst others. The M030 option in the early cars included the Koni adjustable dampers and suspension (front struts height adjustable with progressive rate springs and dampers adustable for bump), uprated torsion bars at the rear, uprated bushes including the strut top mount, uprated ARB's (rear one is adjustable), some uprated bushes in the rear axel assembly, LSD gearbox with oil cooler and uprated 'medium black' brakes.
Later TurboS cars had the LSD gearbox and uprated brakes as standard so the M030 upgrade was the Koni suspension.
Later TurboS cars had the LSD gearbox and uprated brakes as standard so the M030 upgrade was the Koni suspension.
edh
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Suffolk944
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All being well am going to be getting some KWv3 suspension stuck on my car in a few weeks time so my current 968CS M030 set up (refurbished) will no doubt be up for sale at that point [/end shameless plug]
sawood12
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Without a shadow of a doubt, no matter what model of 944 you have, if there is only ever one mod you do to your car ever then it must be KWv3. It will transform your car in every conceivable way. Superb and not that expensive despite what people think. It is the cost of a decent Mountian Bike if you install properly and a half decent one if you don't. Forget MAFs, chips, air filters, turbo's, ARB's, LSD's, M030 you'll get much much more out of the KW.
sawood12
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Initially Promax, who installed it but earlier on this year I got the front raised a bit as Promax set it at quite a nose-down attitude and the geo was checked and tweaked to correct for the raised nose. Settings were as standard but towards the extremities of the tolerances to enhance road holding, and even at these more-road orientated settings the car felt great - planted, really really good body control.
If i'd have kept the car longer then i'd have had the geo reset. The specialist I use - Zentrum, do a thing where you take the car just before a trackday and he will set it up depending upon a description of how you want your car to handle, you take the car on a trackday and take it back afterwards and he will re-adjust for free if you want it tweaking. If you pay more money (alot probably) he'll even come on a trackday with you and tweak the car track-side through the day. He's done alot of racecars in his time.
If i'd have kept the car longer then i'd have had the geo reset. The specialist I use - Zentrum, do a thing where you take the car just before a trackday and he will set it up depending upon a description of how you want your car to handle, you take the car on a trackday and take it back afterwards and he will re-adjust for free if you want it tweaking. If you pay more money (alot probably) he'll even come on a trackday with you and tweak the car track-side through the day. He's done alot of racecars in his time.
craig2105
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Brilliant - thanks chaps. I'd love to go for KW's but it's way beyond my budget this year - I have belts etc to worry about yet and £1300 plus set-up costs (as I understand it) is too prohibitive. I'll hopefully get a run out in a KW equipped car soon as I'm keen to compare with my boggo car.
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