Im struggling to find a set of good nivomats (or new old stock) for my V8-S, the ones on my car are shot and the suspensions quite hard and sits too high at the rear. I dont want to fit a s/h set to fond there no better than the current ones.

I like my car to be original but Im thinking of fitting springs and shocks instead, I take its a case of taking off the old ones and fitting the new?

Im more bothered about comfort than anything as im no boy racer but I do think the Sd1 looks better slightly lowered. Can you fit vitesse rear springs and standard shocks? Or will that ruin its composure.

Rimmers do complete sets of suspension for a reasonable sum in my opinion, so I may go the whole hog and replace the lot.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

alreet mate

I have just done this very same conversion using the Rimmer shox and spring kit. The rear complete was only £75 and was a doddle to fit. I also bought the spring retainer kit, a tenner.
The car looks good, riding a decent height and not too low or too high. I've just got he front left to do.

hope this helps

Simon

No problem, I understand that nivomat springs are different to standard ones.

The suspension on the rear of my car seems rather hard and sits high even though ive fitted a replacement set of nivomat springs to it which weer fractionally shorter than the ones on it. If my nivomats are the originals they are 28 years old and past there best.

So are Vitesse springs much lower than standard, to be hones its only the rear that sits too high for me.

Vitesse springs are 1" lower than std spec.

I fitted vitesse springs on my VDP with std shocks, but fount the dampers bottomed out on large bumps with passengers on board, suggest vitesse spec dampers too

Hmm but then the suspensions harder than usual, my othe cars are hydraulic citroens so i like a soft ride, my days of going round corners fast were years ago lol

Got out bid on a set of nimats last week which went for more than the complete kit from Rimmers!

Before i spend the £100 is there anywhere else cheap to get these from?

Another set of nivomats just went for £170! not including springs!

So what Im going to do is get a complete suspension Kit from rimmers for £15 more but will get the Vitesse/VDP kit which sits a inch lower as my car sits far too high, especially at the back. That way I get new shocks all round, I know some may think its sacrileldge lowering a Mk1 but I think they look that bit better lower.

I don't know if your still looking but these should be cheap enough to get posted

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ARSE Too late ive bought and paid for my rear shocks and springs from Rimmer bros and they are enroute!, never mind.

Sorry mate, I've been looking since you posted but those were the first I found

!UPDATE!!

Had the conversion done today, and I must say im delighted with the results, the rides SO much better, smoother and doesnt crash over the potholes, also with the vitesse rear springs that car now sits level and looks far less "jacked up" and a bit meaner too

The old self levellers are rock solid hence why the ride was so bad.