Any downsides besides price to these ?
Also I have about 10k on my ground control setup which I believe are custom valves koni yellows .
Well, lets see, I installed the Turner lower shock mounts a few weeks ago - the $250 monoballs...and the only thing I can say is that the car felt more 'quiet' as in the usual rumbles of normal driving on road imperfections were noticeably reduced and turning, acceleration was even more stable (VERY minutely noticeable because I also have the Dinan rear toe links which greatly reduced acceleration instability as well as turning instability). Is it worth the $250 for the lower monoball shock mounts? Not really... ONLY if you literally have money to spend freely and nothing else is needed.
So we now come to this juncture...my Koni shocks at 60K are kaputt and the foam absorbers are destroyed on all four shocks and the rear mount is probably almost totally gone...thus the shock upper pole is vibrating against the mount walls causing the sound of a bag of bolts rattling - on normal roads driving at slow to medium city speeds.
And in order to eliminate the need to replace the top shock mounts repeatedly, I am going to upgrade to the Turner Monoball Top Shock mount... it will increase NVH a little according to them, but they also said that about the bottom mounts and the increase was negligible. At this point anything will sound quieter than what is going on now.
I will be curious to see if I notice any performance benefits from using both top and bottom shock mounts. I will update and do a review on both soon.
The final step would be to replace the front fork with Dinan Monoball bearings... a step that seems a bit stupid for the $500 price tag. But alas...I am quite a stupid person when it comes to financial sensibilities and modding my car.
