Your 94 has electronic actuators at the top of the shock which change with driving conditions. Gabriel/Monroe/Cobra shocks do not have that.

Many have fitted cobra shocks and loved them, but the price recently doubled and they are now equal to if not more than the stockers.

About 3-4 years ago a fellow named Cecil fitted some monroes and loved them, but I don't know if anyone else has.

For that price, I would try them. You will probably have to mod the insulator in order to get anything other than stock to fit - you just have to drill out the center hole a little. Look at the cobra shock threads from a month or two ago for details.

Scott

Personnally, if car is mainly your driver, I would go O.E. and call it good for another nine years.

My 2 cents worth.

Ron

Jason Moriset
93 Pearl (53000 mi)
"If it don't go fast,....chrome it!"

Calvin Louie
94 Mark VIII - Dark Portofino Blue/Portofino Blue

TURN OF AIR RIDE SWITCH!

Squeeze in the two white tabs with your hand and pull up, that will remove the electronic device.

Take a wrench or deep well socket and place over the first bolt (after removal of electronic device), you may need another wrench to keep the "u" shaped bracket from moving while trying to unscrew the top bolt. Once it is removed, The second nut is not going to come off without someone else holding the lower portion of the shock with vice grips or something similar. (I skiped that Part)

Remove the two smaller nuts, north and south of the large bolt.

Raise the vehicle and preferably with an air powered wrench remove the lower bolt. (big sucker)

Shock and mount will fall off vehicle at this point.

Assemble your new shock and mount and replace in reverse order.

The lift makes a world of difference.

It's a real easy job but that lower bolt is a real pain in the lower part of ones anatomy to get of with a socket wrench, unless you have a long cheater. hope this helps somebody.

This is the new shock and new mount as received from FPN

I got the lower bolt loose by holding the fender and using my leg on the wrench,and to tighten I held the fender with my left hand and pulling with my right. Yes it was very tight.Also I didn't need to jack up the car except to install the shocks as I couldn't quite get it in there,but only had to jack it up about three inches,the tire was still on the ground.

Hope this helps

Ron

Where'd ya get 'em and how much where they?

If you do a search of this board, I have posted pics of the procedure I used to modify the rear shock mounts to accomodate 03 Cobra Bilsteins which cost me like $70 for the pair from Max at Five Star Ford.

I did this at 50,000 miles and the results were amazing. Not only did the handling improve but the ride actually is smoother. In fact, I liked the shocks so much that yesterday I went and bought the rest of the 03 Cobra and another set of Bilsteins (already installed) to go with it - it handles beyond my wildest dreams.

Basically, all that is involved is drilling the mount out to accomodate the slightly larger Bilstein and using a larger fastener (10mm nut) to secure the shock. Max also has the correct size fastener for the top and the mounts with a 25% discount for LOD members.

Good luck

Robin

Jason Moriset
93 Pearl (56000 mi)
"If it don't go fast,....chrome it!"