Price for Nitrons fitted?

[Mattt]

I'm considering putting Nitrons on the car, they seem to cost £1,170 inc VAT from Racetech.

Any idea on fitting/set-up costs?

[sidpinup]

I am having them fitted to my Tam at TVR Power, 3 hours to fit @ £60 per/h +vat

[Don1]

No wonder Power are busy - great pricing.

[Pursyluv]

Had quotes recently from 3 different garages - in round figures it's £1,500 including fitting and VAT, been agonising for months whether to go this route, still no closer to deciding

[sidpinup]

They do take about 2 weeks to come from Nitron though still waiting for mine to be delivered. The price of the shocks from Power is £1050+vat but that is with ebach springs. £995 with the blue springs IIRC.

[Walford]

F\\cked about with my 2001 Tuscan camber, Castor, KPI, scrub rad, track, rack height, steering arms, ye it improved it quite a lot, but always felt easily unsettled
But putting Nitrons on was a massive improvement to road driving at normal speeds,

people talk about Nitrons for track use,for me the real benefit is comfort and feel in the wet and going to Tesco,s at 60 mph

they are the mutts nuts

but i am glad i tried every thing else first, (sad case i know)

[Martin B Tam]

Taylor's charged similar money to Power a couple of months back to fit a set

Best upgrade I have made, I bought mine from Meteor Motorsport, run by an ex 7 owning friend who ordered from Nitron with custom valving to replicate the dyno plot of Ohlins shocks which should give a slightly softer ride, click for click. Mine is road biased and very happy with the result, the car just absorbs the potholes and stays on line whatever the provocation.

Martin

[portzi]

sidpinup said:

I am having them fitted to my Tam at TVR Power, 3 hours to fit @ £60 per/h +vat

£1200 is about the going rate for nitrons, everyone who I have spoken too who has them fitted have noticed an improvement on ride quality, mine are fitted on my chim just not driven it yet , and if TVR power are fitting them at that price you know you have piece of mind that they will be fitted to perfection

Mark

[Buzz Billsberry]

Agreed the Nitron dampers & Eibach springs are the way to go its got to be the single best upgrade/improvement I've done on the Tamora since I bought it last April. I paid just of over £1k delivered back in April last year. I run them inverted which helps with unsprung weight distribution not that it makes much difference on the road but as I was fitting them....as for fitting they are a doddle and I got the ride hit within 2mm which I was pleased with.

Buzz

[sidpinup]

The main reason I went for Nitrons is that they seem to be the only shock that you don't ear negative comments about. I know some people are happy with golds, reds but equally you hear people can't get the setting right etc. With Nitrons people generally say as above, best upgrade. For me its worth a few £ more to know its going to give better handling and ride without any hassle.

[Sevenman]

Buzz Billsberry said:

Agreed the Nitron dampers & Eibach springs are the way to go its got to be the single best upgrade/improvement I've done on the Tamora since I bought it last April.
Buzz

The Tamora I bought last October had brand new Gaz Gold Pros fitted. I am fairly happy with them and can't justify changing them at the moment but it would be interesting to do a test of the differences between the two setups on the same model over the same road.

[sidpinup]

Happy for you to have a go in mine when it's back....I am down in the Bath area.

[Sevenman]

sidpinup said:

Happy for you to have a go in mine when it's back....I am down in the Bath area.

Not too far from me. Could always meet somewhere with varied roads for comparative tests before reporting back to the forum.

[Targarama]

I had Nitrons, Eibach springs and Str8Sixes bump steer mod done at the same time. The shocks and springs are great, but the bump steer mod made a big difference to how the car can be hustled along a cambered country lane. I have the shocks set quite soft (8 front 10 rear I think, could be the other way around) and the car is very stiffly sprung, but at the same time rides better than on the original setup. Personally I paid for Nitrons as I didn't want shocks that would give problems in the future, I don't want to be fixing them again.

[TVRWazzock]

I've had Nitrons with Eibach springs fitted to my Tamora since March 2007. Been very pleased with them and well worth the investment. I noticed an immediate improvement in handling over the original shocks. Another good thing about them is that you can easily adjust them, especially on track days when you can experiment with different settings. I had mine fitted by Dulfords at the time of my 4.0L upgrade. It might be worth you giving Colin/Neil a call at TVRSW. Neil might be able to get a better deal for you.

http://www.tvrssw.com/

[ShiDevil]

Sevenman said:

The Tamora I bought last October had brand new Gaz Gold Pros fitted. I am fairly happy with them and can't justify changing them at the moment but it would be interesting to do a test of the differences between the two setups on the same model over the same road.

If your's arent leaking or damaged, there is going to be hardly any difference, to justify changing as you say. Having spoken with a few tvr garages, the standard ones are fine, unless your doing something dramatic round a race track. If you have issues, change, but to move from perfectly good ones, to upgraded ones, seems pointless for day to day driving.

I find it hilarious that people are changing to these upgraded shocks, when they have perfectly good ones, when they aren't on track, and when you look at the mileage they do per annum. I know it's personal choice, but if your driving 2-3k miles per annum, seriously, what is the point/benefit.

[Targarama]

ShiDevil said:

I find it hilarious that people are changing to these upgraded shocks, when they have perfectly good ones, when they aren't on track, and when you look at the mileage they do per annum. I know it's personal choice, but if your driving 2-3k miles per annum, seriously, what is the point/benefit.

But you'll spend ages messing around making your own carbon pedal box plate when one exists on the market already for a few quid more?

Seriously though. std TVR shocks tend to be well past their best after 4-5 years, most will have leaked or even failed by then. I had a leaky front shock and my springs were too soft for fast road use, plus the car was sitting too low. Standard replacements are not cheap, so I bit the bullet and did the suspension properly

[sidpinup]

ShiDevil said:

I find it hilarious that people are changing to these upgraded shocks, when they have perfectly good ones, when they aren't on track, and when you look at the mileage they do per annum. I know it's personal choice, but if your driving 2-3k miles per annum, seriously, what is the point/benefit.

I had 2 shocks leaking and that's an MOT fail so needed to change them. Speaking with Dom we worked out that a set of the new Bilsteins, although very good, worked out to be almost as much as Nitrons so an easy choice. Plus wih a more powerful engine better shocks make a lot of sense to make use of the extra horses.

[Sevenman]

ShiDevil said:

If your's arent leaking or damaged, there is going to be hardly any difference, to justify changing as you say.

Indeed - mine are working fine. If I had been changing the shocks I would have probably gone for Nitrons, but I am sticking with what is on there.

As for no difference, it depends on who you talk to. I get the impression that Nitrons give you Lexus-like comfort on bumpy roads while allowing grip and control levels that put a Radical to shame.

I would like to do a side-by-side test to see what the differences are from the drivers seat...

ShiDevil said:

if your driving 2-3k miles per annum, seriously, what is the point/benefit.

3000 miles in the last 3 weeks But I agree that the shocks may be more capable than are needed for the use a lot of cars get. But TVRs don't need to make sense, and a lot of people just want the best parts. No bad thing.

[Walford]

ShiDevil said:

Is there really any major difference between standard shocks and nitrons etc. Are people changing them, when their shocks are still perfectly fine or hopefully when they are knackered? I can only see the benefit if they are knackered tbh, as the standard shocks seem fine.

Yes

(if we are talking T350, Tamora,and Tuscan. Sags are completely different chassis, apart from being grouped on here)

the TVR setup is a light spring with a lot of pre load, the Nitron setup is a spring rate of more than double with very little pre load, and the damping altered to suit


I think your getting confused with damper,s when most of what is being done to improve the feel of these cars is being done on spring rate and pre load changes, when then necessitates damping changes