I was wondering if anyone has tried (or looked seriously at) sticking the magnetic ride system from the ZR1 or ZL1 in your 3rd gen and how it worked out.

 

Not something that is simply 'stuck' on a different car, I'm sure it has not been done, since nothing from those platforms will interchange with a f-body anyway.

 

Will probably be a while before we see an aftermarket controller to make using the magnetic controlled shocks possible on another application, its like an abs system, there is a lot of specific programming involved, to control them.

 

I know it's not a bolt-on by any means and requires tons of mods and custom pieces. I was just curious if anyone has tried it.

 

Wouldn't want to even if I could.

On the Corvettes, the cost of replacing the shocks on the magnetic ride control cars is aprox $700 PER SHOCK. Rule of thumb? Buy a Z51 instead. Skip the magnetic ride setup.

 

SO ? A quality normal adjustable damper of somewhat comparable level is approximately the same cost, it really isnt a high cost for what they do.

 

$2800 for a set of shocks isn't expensive? They aren't going to handle better than the Z51 setup. They're just adjustable from the cabin of the car. Not worth it to me.

C6 Corvettes can get a set of 4 Bilsteins for $325.

 

I didnt say it was expensive, I said that it was comparable to a set of quality adjustable dampers, yes a set of 4 non adjustable bilsteins is $325, a set of KYB's could probably be had for 180$ that doesnt put it in the same ballpark.

No they are not "adjustable from the cabin of the car" they are realtime controlled via microprocessor, that is a bit above just being able to change a few settings from the drivers seat.

 

Yea, that's what everyone said about ABS when it first came out, but people started swapping it from similar sized cars into classic cars without any programming and it worked fine. Things like staggered tired and dramatically different weights/distributions screw with the controllers, but basically all it does is monitors the wheel rates and makes sure that they don't change dramatically relative to each other.

this is kind of like ABS, stability control, awd, IRS...

In the hands of an experienced driver, there are cheap, old school combinations that will be faster, but for daily use they make nice creature comforts... you and I might not want them but the average monkey on the average street probably would if they could have them cheap enough

 

This is a good deal different than swapping to a similar sized car and tire sizes, you do that with abs you're still dealing with a car on 4 wheels, that you want to do the same thing.

With shocks the valving is different for virtually everything, placement of the shock in relation to the arm, the weights of sprung and unsprung, intended usage, etc.

As far as my reference to the ABS I was just stating that they are microprocessor based on the control, and not that simple in their function, as Reid Fleming would think its just something you adjust from your seat, a few different settings, when its actually controlling the shocks 100% fulltime, even an ABS system waits for something to be wrong then adjusts, the magnetorheological shocks are continuously varied.