Back in the mid '80s, my first Triumph was a '78 Spit. This car had the
typical Spit swing spring tail droop. Local to me was a business called
English Only (in Detroit) that sold a no-name brand coil over shock. He
sold them for $95 per set as I recall (rather pricey back then) and it
lifted the back end of the car right up.
My '71 Spit bodied GT6 (retro fitted with a swing spring) has the droop
and rather them getting the spring re-arched (again) I am looking into
options. I understand that I can specify air shocks for say a mid '70s
Corvette based on discussions on this list. Recently I had a brainstorm
- those shocks with the booster coil springs must have been for a
Corvette. I just tried JCWhitney - they have a listing for the air
shocks but no listing for the coil over shocks for the Corvette.
Anyone else familiar with a coil over shock that would act as a booster
spring (not replace the swing spring)? Is there another reasonably
common vehicle that uses the same shock as the Spit? Anyone out there
using or have used air shocks on a Spit - how do/did you like them, what
was the vehicle handling like? Currently I have Konis in the rear and
Spax in the front - although I am not certain that I am perceptive
enough to adjust the shocks. I do know that I need to raise the back
end of my vehicle and that I currently end up on the suspension stops
(in the rear) more than I care to.
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