You'll be needing good dampers on that girl then, why not go with the standard peugeot 5206 TE dampers? Hard to beat in my opinion unless you go up the money. I use B6 with standard everything else on my gti and find them to be exceptionally good. B6 and B8 are the same unit for the rear, the B8 with the shorter body for the front when using lowering springs. Excel G are the standard road going gas charged dampers from KYB,the Ultra SR are supposed to be stiffer and more sport orientated,but to be honest I found little, if any, difference in the two apart from price. I suppose a lot depends on the roads you drive on but I most definitely would not recommend the ultra sr with eibachs on the front if you're banging around on bumpy back roads. The rears are a stiff monotube design the fronts are twin tube. If you wish to go standard with shocks I may be able to source original 5206TE rear shocks(new) from mainland Europe. Dealers in Ireland are looking for 225euro + vat ea. for these now and are hard to get. From my searches it seems similar in the UK but no doubt someone else on here would know more about that.

Well, just fitted Ultra SR on mine with standard springs and height. As the original ones were so worn ( more than 260 000km).
The KYBs feel very good, I have Excel Gs on my other car (Accord) and the Ultra SRs are much firmer, very close to Bilstein B6s.
The rears are a bit stiff, but I guess they will soften after a few thousand miles.
Price was also very good, almost half of Bilsteins.

A pair I ordered just arrived, exciting!!

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I'm going to be using nearly new standard springs with them as I want as close to standard ride height as possible, fingers crossed all will be well, can't be worse than my old tired dampers at the mo...

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98 Blaze 6 - Current