Daffy

I have about 80K miles and the car is getting bouncy, not mushy like a coil spring car, I assume the shocks are toast. Interested to hear some opinions on replacements. I'm leaning toward the Bilsteins but would like to hear some opinions

Chukman

Bilstein B6's seem to be very popular if you're just looking for a nice ride and nothing more performance focused.

Dano523

B6 for the base car would be considered oem type swap, will the B8 are slightly stiffer, and would give better handling instead.
As for B8's and say Koni FSD, both are going to ride about the same in stiffness, but the FSD do better with off camber road chop to keep the tires connected to the ground.

If you want to go even stiffer, then the DRM shocks are B8's, but set up with slightly more stiffer dampening instead.

And keep in mind that with the shock swaps, going to change the ride height of the car slightly, so will need to get all 4 tires realigned.

Myself, with the car at 80K, would replace the ride height adjusters as well,
https://www.corvettecentral.com/c7-1...ushions-575020
Once done with the installs, Take the car for a short ride to allow the suspension to settle in, reset the corner balance with ride height adjusters to get that right, then take the car to have wheels aligned.

If you don't want to use scales to set the ride heights to get a perfect corner balance for the 4 corners, then just park car on level ground and measure from the fender tips centers to ground, so you have 26.5" to the ground for the front and 28" on the rears to the ground. If you want to lower the car slightly, then can do so with right height adjuster, but do the same lower from the above number evenly for all for corners. Do not just adjust all the ride height adjusters all he way up to there lowest positions, since this is going to corner unbalance the car from to back instead.

Note, when you are adjusting the ride height adjuster, get the weight off the wheel for that corner, before you adjust the ride height adjusters up or down. Then before you measure again, take the car for short ride, to allow the adjuster to settle again. And what helps to allow the adjusters to settle faster to the trans spring, light coat of dielectric grease on the bottom of them, when you are installing them.

Daffy

Thanks for the information