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Ridetech HQ Series Coilovers Front Pair GM G-Body 1978-1988
$890.00

RideTech HQ Series Adjustable Coilovers for 1978-1988 GM G-Body

Upgrade your 1978-1988 GM G-body with the RideTech HQ Series Adjustable Coilovers. Designed for models like the Monte Carlo, Regal, Grand National, and Cutlass, these coilovers provide superior handling and a smooth ride, while allowing you to customize your vehicle's ride height to suit your preferences.

Key Features

  • High Performance Components: Featuring robust 1.834" pistons and heavy-duty 5/8" shafts, these coilovers are engineered for durability and performance. The impact-forged bodies ensure they can handle the demands of the road.
  • Customizable Ride: With 24-position rebound adjustment, you can easily fine-tune the shocks to match your driving style and the unique demands of your vehicle.
  • Comprehensive Testing: Developed through extensive testing across the country, RideTech calibrates the shock settings and spring rates to ensure optimal performance in various driving conditions.
  • Warranty Assurance: Enjoy peace of mind with our exclusive 1,000,001-mile warranty, a testament to the quality and reliability of our products.
  • Designed for Compatibility: This coilover system includes two HQ Series shocks and two Hyperco coil springs, specifically designed for use with RideTech StrongArms for enhanced performance.

Vehicle Fitment

  • Buick Regal (1978-1987)
  • Chevrolet El Camino (1978-1987)
  • Chevrolet Malibu (1978-1983)
  • Chevrolet Monte Carlo (1978-1988)
  • GMC Caballero (1978-1987)
  • Oldsmobile Cutlass (1978-1988)
  • Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais (1978-1985)
  • Oldsmobile Cutlass Cruiser (1980-1983)
  • Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme (1978-1988)
  • Pontiac Grand Am (1978-1980)
  • Pontiac Grand Lemans (1978-1983)
  • Pontiac Grand Prix (1978-1987)
  • Pontiac Lemans (1978-1981)

Customer Feedback

Users have noted significant improvements in both handling and ride comfort after installing the RideTech HQ Series Coilovers. Many appreciate the ease of adjusting the ride height, allowing for a more personalized driving experience. Whether on the street or the track, these coilovers deliver the performance that classic muscle car enthusiasts crave.

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About RideTech

Ridetech manufactures exciting suspension systems that improve the handling and ride quality of your muscle car, truck, Corvette, or hot rod. From restorations and show cars, to high-speed autocross and track day cars, Ridetech offers a wide range of premium products including air suspension systems (air ride), coil-overs, shock absorbers, coil, and leaf springs, tubular control arms, roll bars, sway bars and much more.

Being a Hot Rodder is more than parts and problem solving, if you are one too, then you already know what we mean. It is a lifestyle and a passion, and it is built on sharing with friends. Being a Hot Rodder means you never enter any town as a stranger, you always have fellow enthusiast to sit down with and feel at home. This is why we spend so much of our time and resources on attending events, we want to meet you and hear about your story – even if you aren’t a customer, even if you buy someone else’s product… 

Our approach to problem-solving, “can-do” perspective and relationship-driven business tactics have provided openings into many areas of business including agriculture, commercial transport, and defense projects as well… but at the core, we remain true to who we are – we are Hot Rodders.

Technology

RideTech greatly improves the ride quality and handling performance of your late model muscle car. Choose coil-over suspension, air suspension or monotube shock absorber upgrades. RideTech’s engineering team starts from the ground up with impact forged aluminum shock absorbers bodies that are vastly superior, with respect to quality, to anything offered from the factory. As such, RideTech offers an unbeatable 1,000,001 mile warranty. Like high-end exotics and race cars, RideTech shocks are monotubes. The design provides precision rebound and compression control as well as enhanced reliability. 

Coil-overs are popular upgrades for Mustangs Camaros and LX muscle. A Coilover is simply a shock surrounded by a coil spring; it places the shock and coil in one linear unit. A Coilover is a simple solution for most suspension designs, but can often be difficult to understand what you need. Fortunately, RideTech has your back with 21 years of suspension development.

Choosing a coil-over begins with two important decisions. The first is choosing the function of your vehicle. If you are building a performance car, then you will want a coil-over that has an adjustable shock. This allows the driver to tweak the “stiffness” of the suspension with a twist of a knob located on the shock. This adjustment knob controls the shock valving which controls the damping of the coil-over. This is a huge benefit for drivers who want to fine-tune their performance for the track, autocross, or the road. 

The second most important decision in choosing a coil-over is finding your desired spring rate for the coil spring. Spring rate is the force required to compress a spring 1″ and is an important factor in how comfortable your car rides and your ride height. RideTech has worked out ideal spring rates for your vehicle and intended driving style.

Product Line

RideTech offers a wide range of products for street rods and one-off custom cars with fabricated chassis including coil-over suspension, air suspension, and shocks. The world's greatest custom car builders choose RideTech suspension for exceptional handling and ride quality.

Complete Air Suspension, Coil-over Kits, and Conventional Streetgrip Suspension System for your classic muscle car and cruiser. 

RideTech offers high-performance suspension components for all generations of Corvettes including coil-over conversions, shock upgrades, sway bars, and even MagneTuner, a plug N play controller for Magneride-equipped C7 Corvettes. A RideTech exclusive, our Track1 line of ultra-high-performance suspension components for C2/C3 Corvettes are proven race winners. The Track 1 line includes extreme duty IRS components as well as upgraded spindles with C7 Corvette bearing packs. Everything is designed to work with stock Corvette frames.

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