Anybody tried the Q1A shocks for a Camaro as a direct bolt on to the Alpine?
I made a purchase for the '68 Camaro front an rear shocks to find out what kind of a ride they would do for my Blue Boy V6.
The rear shocks were a perfect fit. Do not yet know how the ride will be.
The front shocks could not be fastened due to the bottom end having a forked slot style, see PIC ....
The Blue color shocks are the Monroe shocks. In the PIC where you only see a portion of a blue shock, that is the bottom end of the rear shock. The other blue shock is the front and it too uses one bolt to fasten into a special Alpine bracket that has two holes for securing the bottom.
Notice the two new shocks have the slotted forked ends. They do not match the Special Alpine bracket.
Maybe there would be a way to make them work if you removed the slotted forked piece and utilized a bolt similar to the Alpine one.
MAybe I will go back to that later. But for now I will continue with the Monroe.
What started all this is I had a bit of noise coming from the front while driving sometimes on a rather rough road.
The ride was not exactly what I would call a smooth one.
When I removed one of the front Monroes I notice the metal sleeve in the rubber bushing of the Monroe was a good bit larger in dia than the stock Alpine bolt used to fasten it in place. This could be the source of a rattle like noise while driving.
I removed the sleeve/bushing and pressed in one that was snug with the Stock Alpine bolt, assembled the Monroe shocks and will give it a trial run later today....
Wondering if any others using the Monroe shocks discovered the same looseness in their shock mount? Maybe you too have the same situation as I but do not know it!