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** This review is relevant to German-sourced (as opposed to via Subaru Japan) Bilstein B6 Sport dampers fitted to an Australian-spec 2.5i Liberty ***
Done - finished at 22:00 last night & didn't even have the energy to take it for a quick test-drive. Found that it is much easier to drop out both front struts at once - you don't get the front swaybar fighting you like you do when changing one at a time.
Marked the old camber bolt positions onto the Bilsteins so I think the camber is reasonably ok. I will get the front camber & toe checked before our drive on Sunday.
Now - how does it drive? Well, wifey thought we were taking her car today & said "Yeah, but is it all back together ok? Should we be taking your car?". Only one way to find out...
OMG - the ride is now F-I-R-M. Manly man firm. Breast jiggly firm. But...the body control is absolute. No float. Nothing. Nada. Just moves over the undulation & stabilises. I would rate primary ride now 9-1/2 out of 10. Total control. Like a REAL sports car.
Secondary ride has taken a hit - was probably 8 out of 10 & now a 5 out of 10. Hits potholes & road joins with a jiggly thud, but I can certainly live with it, even through the park. If they hadn't resurfaced Maianbar Drive six months ago things may be different, but I can live with this. Besides, the car now points so exactly you can steer around the worst of it, even when travelling at a real clip.
So how does it corner? Well, see paragraph four - body control is absolute. You can pile into a corner at stupid speeds & there is no understeer. There is no oversteer. The car just tracks around the corner. At the Willoughby Rd exit off the Gore Hill Freeway (heading north) I used to hook it in hard & get a little roll oversteer-slide. Not any more - it just steams around the corner.
There's a 180 degree left-hander in the RNP posted at 45 km/h. Used to be hitting the grip/control limit at 110km/h. Now at that speed it feels like car is saying "is that all you can do?". Time to reprocess my RNP corner speeds. All of them.
Was able to tease some front tyre squeal/understeer under power around one slow (think 50 km/h) corner, but that's down to the tyres - the Yokohama C-Drives are hardly the grippiest thing around.
From what I remember in my 3.0R-B drive, secondary ride in my car is better - the demonstrator really thwacked into potholes...my car sorta just thuds. I'd probably have to say it's 'cause I'm running 17" wheels/tyres.
BTW - Mr Bilstein believes the reason my order was so delayed was that someone (not sure who ) placed an order with the German factory for 300 complete units - needed urgently before January 2006!
2.5i Liberty wagon
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