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Any word from Bilstein or shox.com?

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Old 04-16-08, 03:51 PM
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Has anyone received their shocks? I was given an expected ship date of 3/27 but that obviously didn't happen seeing as I'm 2 hours from the Bilstein factory and they haven't arrived. Does anyone know if they've been further delayed? I got so sick of waiting, I just put my new wheels on and I'm rocking the 4x4 look.
Old 04-16-08, 04:47 PM
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For real! I'm still waiting to hear about the blisten's coming back to market so I can do my own setup ala the blixer_drew supra thread. Red Phoenix is rocking the setup and he lives not 25 minutes from me so I'm super envious!

What on EARTH is the hold up at this point I wonder?
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I heard that one of the shocks is sourced from somewhere else or a different car... I dont remember. The other they have (talking about front and rear).

Still rocking the CO's...
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The version for us here in the US is a revalved unit made for the Supra in Germany. They are getting the "cores" in about 2 weeks, should have them revalved and shipping in a month.
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I got impatient and lucked out on ebay (I hope) and got these:



They came from a JZA80 RZ so I guess they're JDM. Hope the valving is the same as the ones that Matt got. I'll find out when I find time to put them on. Can anyone confirm if the stock JDM springs are eibachs? I want to try them on first and see the drop/ride quality before I replace them with Hypercoils.
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Default Got these yesterday...Ordered them monday?

I must be missing something. I ordered these monday and got them yesterday. Not sure why everyone is having trouble. Must be a different model or something. These are Bilstein HD's for the Supra.


Old 04-18-08, 07:40 PM
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did you get it from shox.com?
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They must have some stock that they held onto. I'm looking into cancelling my order from shox.com right now...
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the fronts are available no prob, but the rears are not......or the other way around..
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shox.com just emailed me and will have a status update on Monday. If it's more than another week or so, I'm just going to cancel and order elsewhere. Evileagle you are correct, I believe the rears are the hard-to-get ones.
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Damn I am so glad I got mine when I did. Used.. but atleast im on Coilovers now...

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I'm really itching to get my set in, even though im not doing the coilover thing. just the shocks and supra springs
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Originally Posted by mteele
I'm really itching to get my set in, even though im not doing the coilover thing. just the shocks and supra springs
doing the same. if somehow i need more drop, i'll do coilover. anyone have pics of the sc with just stock bilstein-supra spring setup?
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Grrr...eshocks has none in stock now. Bilstein won't even give an ETA. This is getting ridiculous.


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