What do you guys do if you need shocks for a car that are very rare, and even if you had the OEM item, you would want something stiffer? Is there a manufacturer who lists their dimensions and damping rates so that you can find an appropriate cross-reference?
Name the car and somebody here will probably know the answer. Also I think bilstein makes general purpose HDs for hot rods and such.
1967 Fiat 850 Spider. It's received a bigger motor than stock, so each rear corner is carrying well over 400 lbs. The shocks are standalone because the coils are real short and there's not room there. The front has coilovers that are in good shape.
Thanks for the tip on Bilstein. I'm sure that there's products out there that will do the trick. Just have to find them.
In reply to Kramer:
That's a solid system, pick out one with dimensions you like, reverse search the part number to see what it came from, and then go take that cars info to various performance shock makers websites and repeat the whole process till you find a car/shock that has performance shocks available.
I know that the torsion spring Chrysler cars (Cordoba coems to mind) have really short, short stroke shocks mounted way inboard, I imagine even the really cheap ones are valved pretty stiffly to control the big heavy car with such a short lever arm.
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