Koni shocks, wtf? No brake line bracket?

[HardInThePaint]

You would think being that Koni's are so tight and so expensive they would go head and take some time out to ad a brake line bracket on their shocks. But for whatever reason they do not. So my question is, do you just zip tie the brake line to the shock or what? I really don't see any other way to do it other than leaving it hangin.

[JoshM]

That's the only thing that irks me about the Yellows.

Other than zipties, there's really nothing else that I can think of off the top of my head. Search around the MRTs for people with the Yellows and ask if they've found another way to do so.

[ikayto]

yeup my tein SS cost more than koni yellows and I have to do the same.

[cvc7chris]

that's ***..quality shocks and no brake line bracket..wtf..

[F20A CB7]

you should write them a email or something saying why a product as epensive as it is, doensnt come with a bracket.

[mndude07]

Cut the brake line mounting tabs off the stock shocks and mount them to the Koni's:




Sorry I don't have better pics. Those were taken to show my brakes, not the brake line mounting. I had a shop take care of transferring the brake line bracket.

[gloryaccordy]

Zip tie the shyts

[deevergote]

Zip tie the shyts

Been working fine for me for years.

[mondojackal]

Wow. Why make a big deal about something useless. Just zip-tie it, or get some stainless lines made. Then you'll be set for good.

Not trying to be a dick, but they're not really all THAT important.

[ChampCoupe]

just take a hammer and a flat head screw driver and knock the bracket off of the stock shocks. And koni's is not the only company that does this, my d2's were the same way.

[gloryaccordy]

Wow. Why make a big deal about something useless. Just zip-tie it, or get some stainless lines made. Then you'll be set for good.

Not trying to be a dick, but they're not really all THAT important.

Well if the shits get tangled up in a moving part obviously you're screwed; but seriously, it would take a lot for that to happen

I just zip tied them when I had Konis... and I lived to tell about it.

[CB7 Sleeper]

Doesn't sound like a big deal at all. It seems to me you've got it figured out. Zip ties FTW?

[quaidum]

just take a hammer and a flat head screw driver and knock the bracket off of the stock shocks. And koni's is not the only company that does this, my d2's were the same way.

wow i am surprised that nobody else has mentioned that. this is exactly what my brother and i did. just tap w/hammer around on the top of the bracket, comes off effortlessly. no point and cutting or leaving it off,sure its one less thing(well actually two) but it is effortless.

[mx5_guy]

you would think paying that much money they would have a bracket on them.

[mndude07]

Koni makes dampers for a huge ranger of vehicles...more so than alot of other performance companies. The design of their valving system is much more expensive too. The manufacturing processes that each damper goes through is costly enough as it is. Even adding the brackets would add another step and raise the cost of the damper even more, and they're expensive enough as it is. Also, if they put the brackets on, they wouldn't be able to use mass-produced shells.