The M3 made its debut yesterday with the AST 4100s on it.  Terry was way out front until an Evo snuck in and took the lead by 0.2s.  Pennington is extremely favorable to AWD.  As we all know, it is tizight.  Ronnie from AST will be here the weekend of the next BMW autocross.  We're going to bring him out to show him what the crazy Americans are doing in the middle of nowhere Mineral Wells.   Can't stay all day though, because we're being trained on rebuilds and custom valving.

Brian Hanchey
vorshlag.com

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CA Bimmer (4/23/2007)

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I will try to keep my speed down for you.

HA!  Course designer:  Please put some turns in this course to slow Doug down.

BTW, we should have prototype double adjustables on the car for that event.  They are telling me the rears have 40mm pistons.  Yummy!

Brian Hanchey
vorshlag.com

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'06 Mazda RX-8

Some good pictures here (we're finally shooting with Hanchey's Nikon SLR + real lenses at events): Gallery

Here's some more up-to-date info about AST:

AST Video Link (great video)

New pictures. This stuff looks like a million bucks! Vorshlag spec'd AST 4100 series shown at left, AST Sportline 1 shown at right. The Sportline 1s come with 400#/in springs front and rear. The 4100 series comes with a wide variety of spring rates.

Prices from $999 (Sportline 1) to $1500 (4100 series) for single adjustable coil-over racing shocks, available with or without springs. Camber plates and rear shock mounts are also available separately.

http://www.vorshlag.com/cart/index.php?manufacturers_id=10 - all of our current AST goodies

Since we are local to DFW and have shock rebuilding and revalving capabilities, the LSC folks will benefit from  on site support and for quick turn around on services. All racing shocks are typically rebuilt every 2-3 seasons to keep them consistent, but this is less of an issue with the newer monotube designs vs old school (pre-WWII) twin tube designs.

Here the 4100 series E36 struts are shown with the E36 Vorshlag camber plate (new 100% CNC, engraved revision). Our new double adjustable ASTs arrive this week so we should have them in for the next Mineral Wells event. We can already supply AST triple adjustables with remote reservoirs. As added adjustability goes up so does cost, of course. The AST offerings are less expensive than Olhins, JRZ, etc, but are of similar design and quality. They almost compare well in price against low-tech Konis but are vastly different internally (i.e. better). 

Thanks,

Terry Fair - www.vorshlag.com & www.ast-usa.com
"Alpha" E36-LS1 (XPrepared/G Class "No Class") '97 M3 (STU/F Class), '91 318is (STS/C Class)

Will

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Yes, I know my wheels are gold, but I DO have a car so check it.

My name is Will and I like long walks in the rain...ahhhh my ankle!!!

And I have a friend named Richie that abuses his powers.

SJ

We should have a set of E36 DAs here this week for testing.  Once we prove that in, we can do others.  They like to have a set of E30 uprights to start with since they build the strut off of that.  This is not an insert so they need the upright to start with.

Brian

Brian Hanchey
vorshlag.com

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