Tiger ride quality

clementine said
I like to order shocks by measuring vs what another car runs.

By measuring what? Dampening rates? Number of valves?

Length is easy, getting a shock with the right dampening rates to match your wheel rates is the most important thing. And since dampening rates and graphs aren’t usually available, asking some people that run similar wheel rates isn’t a bad plan.

pishta said
When I first drove my Barn fond 65 home, it was still wearing 1971 air-cushion bias ply tires and original 1965 shocks. It was like driving on glass, and handled like it was driving on ice! Those Bias ply tires really rode well but just didnt handle highway grooves at all. Good luck on a soft tire nowadays that is not a performance soft like a 10,000 mile Continental off a luxo sport model today.

The compound isn’t the primary driver of ride quality anyway, it’s sidewall construction. And with the fairly limited selection of tires for 15” rims getting something with a significantly softer sidewall construction is going to be tough. And of course, the softer the sidewall the worse the handling characteristics will be