I had a chance to install these the other day and yes­ter­day was my first ride with them and it’s time to do a lit­tle report.

My stock shocks had been rid­den pretty hard and it’s no won­der that they were pretty much shot after 42K. I decided to give the Elka Sus­pen­sion a shot as I’ve heard good things about them on this board and they were quite a bit cheaper than the com­peti­tors setup. The install was pretty easy. You will need a jack for sure but other than that no spe­cial tools are required. […]

As soon as I pulled out of the dri­ve­way I knew it was right or at least pretty close. No more side to side roll and the Spy­der tracked so much bet­ter than it did with the stock shocks. This thing felt like it was on rails now. The rear shock didn’t need any adjust­ment that I could tell but I will play with that later just for fun.

I looked for every bump and pot hole I could find and hit them head on. The shocks soaked up the bumps great and I got to say I felt like I was rid­ing a new Spy­der, not new as in not old but new as in totally dif­fer­ent than stock. I guess I should have done this a long time ago but I just didn’t want to cut loose with that much money not know­ing if it was worth it or not.

I worked my way up on the twisties start­ing off slower than I nor­mally run them and fin­ish­ing off run­ning much faster than I should of. The Spy­der did great and I’m very happy with my invest­ment. If I wind up with an RT this will be one of the first things I do to the front.

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For more infor­ma­tion about Elka shocks for your own Spy­der, please con­tact John Ilkiw at 1–800-557‑0552 ext. 257.