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One thing I might do is to swap over to slightly softer springs. This car has 450 and 600 lbs (I think I remember reading that on one of the bills) Hyperco springs and the ride is a bit hard for my "firm" ass.

You might try adjusting those Koni's first. You may be able to set them to a softer setting.

Anyway, you are a BLESSED man Mark! Congrats!
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Originally posted by Tom@Seal Beach:
What size tires does it run?

I have Aldens, but want to change them out to the Koni's with steel bodies for durability...the goal is to turn it into a daily driver (10k+ miles per year and solo 1 events).


The rears tires are definitely 315/35/17. I think the fronts are 245/40/17, but I'm less certain of that.

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Originally posted by Z06 Pantera:
I would put the 450's in the rear and get 300's for the front. I have had MANY customers tell me that the ride is great with those values...


Scott: Yeah, that is what I have on my white car and the ride is virtually identical to the stock suspension (a good thing, IMO). Good thought, and only two springs to buy!

Thanks,

Mark
Tom, today's Konis are high pressure gas charged shocks. The 300psi or so gas inside the shock for foam control generates around 45 lbs of extra spring strength on each corner. On our '72 L, I run 250 lb front springs and 275 lb rears, plus the extra 45 lbs for each corner from the shocks. Larry Stock runs only slightly stiffer spring weights on his do-everything Pantera that has not been as severely lightened as our car. It makes for a comfortable ride and good handling- at least for these two Panteras; YMMV.

Gas Konis use narrow heim-joint ends that need shims to fit a Pantera's mount tabs. In addition, the heims are for 1/2" bolts- and a Pantera uses slightly smaller metric bolts. So Koni dealer D. Quella supplies 16 of such shims to fit the shocks to a Pantera. E-Bay Koni sell;ers will not include the shims.Note the he ims do NOT increase road noise inside the car, contrary to what you may have read. Matter of fact, we run all-urethane bushings along with the heim-joint shocks and road noise is no different than when the car was stock- by dB meter checks.
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Originally posted by jb1490:
Congrats Mark! What a great car!!

With all those cars, you will need a bigger trailer so that you can bring all of them to car shows. Big Grin

John


Thanks John.

Just need to figure out how to get the cost of diesel down...

Big Grin

I wish this was mine, but it belongs to fellow Pantera owner Carmen who has made many a long trips with a Pantera quite tolerable (as in we fly, the cars don't).

Mark

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... we fly, the cars don't


Weren't you trying to pickup a used transport on e-bay a couple of years ago so that the cars could fly too? I'm sure you've still got a mockup of the TPC logo on one of these babies just waiting for the right deal to come along!

Finally we are getting some above-freezing weather here. Spring is coming. It will be a few months, but I decided to roll 2281 out and give her some fresh air to run and warm up. I was REALLY tempted to go for a spin, but so much salt still remains on our roads. Plus, I'm not sure I'd be able to make it back up my driveway...

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Beautiful pics, Mark. What could be cleaner that your white cat in a Canadian winter!



It almost makes me want to come back. And I love the tread on those Michelins. They never should have changed it. The new ones don't come close.

Let's see... how about a road trip to the sunshine somewhere? Just think of the awesome album of pics you could post. That would be monumental.

And what memories... just sayin.
That "hill" is my driveway. It doesn't look that steep, but it has foiled many ill-equipped vehicles in the winter. I have less-than-fond memories of installing snow tires at -30° in the dark on the flat end of my snowy driveway when I foolishly swapped some cars around in the garage and couldn't get one of them back into it.

I had expected I would have better luck reversing the Pantera back up it, but in the end it was better just getting a bit of a run and going forward. The laneway curves about 2/3 the way along, but fortunately there was nothing harder than snow to run into (well, except the house at the end).

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Originally posted by JTpantera:
Quite impressive. Very clean white paint to look that good against snow. I really like the setting.

Pretty indeed. At least you have the weight in the right place. When I just got my CTS-V I had to drive it to work in fresh snow and with 650 HP and summer tires. Chaos on all streets, everybody going slow. I had a few not insignificant inclines during my 47 km route. I had to plan them very carefully, I went slower up them than the others so I would have a gap in front of me, because morning traffic stopped occasionally, and I knew that if I had to stop on an incline, I would not get it moving again until spring. Ordered winter tires/rims that day...

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