Miata Mailing List: April 1992, Message #11
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   From: (none)
Subject: GAB vs Koni
   Date: (none)

At the BSCC autocross yesterday I got to make one run in a friends Miata.
His car is identical to mine (Millen exhaust, K&N filter, my old tires)
except he went with GAB shocks, while I use Konis.  The GABs adjust for
both rebound and compression (one knob) while the Konis adjust only for
compression.

He spent quite a lot of time fiddling with the settings until he finally
found a setting he liked.  His times were not all that great, however.
I went and took a fun run in his car and it felt *very* different than
mine.  It was stiffer (and the GABs were not on full hard) and very,
well, darty.  The car seemed to immediately react to steering inputs.
I had a hard time keeping from over-inputting the car.  On the other
hand it was much harder to toss the rear end of the car the way I'm used
to.  This made it difficult to do slaloms as fast, but 180s seemed
more controled.

Anyway, I have some questions for you GAB driver's out there:

	1) What settings do you use?  Do you have a front swaybar?

	2) Why did you pick GAB over Koni?  Driving style?  Millen's
	   recommendation?  Adjustable rebound?

	3) Which do you think is better now that you've bought GABs,
	   GAB or Koni?

I expect that when all in said and done and we've done some side-by-side
comparison's it will all be a wash.  It could get very expensive for
one of us if one of the shocks turns out to be clearly superior.

- Alan