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Clunking in rear?
Wednesday, May 06, 2009 4:28 PM
Finally got my suspension in my 01 Sunfire. I went with the Koni Yellows and the Eibach Pro-kit. Absolutley the best investment I have ever made to my car.

Now what i'm trying to figure out is why I have a clunking sound in the rear. I have both fronts and backs set at full soft, as thats what Koni suggests for the first 500k. Has anyone else had this problem? I've searched and came up with rear strut mounts. Could this be my problem? If so what do you guys recommend for rear strut mounts?

Thanks Shawn.

Re: Clunking in rear?
Wednesday, May 06, 2009 6:07 PM
I have this problem, but it didn't really rear its head until I put the solid mounts from OEM on, then I had a lot more spring gap.

Basically what (I think) is happening to you is that when you go over bumps, your spring is no longer captive (it either comes off the perch or off of the mount)

What I did to remedy it was to get two CS100s and two 18DS100s from http://www.hypercoils.com/ . These keep your springs captive, even at full droop.

I have Koni Yellows with RKSport (GC) coilovers, which is very similar to your setup, so I'd bet that's what you're running into.



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