MGF MK 9.5 FCCKit Coil Conversion Susp.

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Item code: FCCKit MK9.5

£1,500.00

(Excl VAT VAT£1,250.00)

MGF Coil spring conversion kit FCCKit MK 9.5

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PLEASE NOTE ; IF USING PAYPAL THEN CHOOSE THIS OPTION. Their charges are approx £80!/4%
This kit is for all cars with hydragas suspension 1995- early 2002. NOT TF models ..use TransFormer for these later srung cars.
Please note there may be some production differences to the photos.
This limited production run of 25 kits are now sold out so I have decided to make another 50 which will probably be the last that I will manufacture,these are all hand assembled and after over 520 kits sold I think I've worn my hands out! Plus that is a lot of revenue for the current Government to squander on adgendas we have no control of!!
NOTE for UK delivery costs this is approx £45 due to shipping surcharges for the 36Kg weight.!

.Allow 3-6 weeks from ordering. In a World of ever increasing prices I have managed to reduce the cost of this product by selecting the best prices from different sub-contractors. More work for me but the bottom line is a saving to the customer from over a year ago! The cost of shocks and springs have risen considerably as well.
.Price increase from GAZ March 2026 now added.
The turrets have a fixed shock mount and eliminates the aluminium adjustable top mount due to the cost of this part. Stainless steel, as the cost advantage of mild steel and then zinc plating is negligable and the enviromental impact is far less with stainless steel. I have been listening to Greta ;-)
The kit is made from stainless steel so is a hybrid of the MK9 and MK10 hence MK9.5
This is the only suspension kit that replaces ALL the old hydragas parts with NEW . You will have a brand new reliable suspension that require no pumping or faffing ever again.No special tools required to fit and a competant mechanic can fit this in a day..add extra time for geometry check and adjustment.The coil in a can systems are around £1600 and you will still have to pay for new knuckle joints and top arm bearings bringing the total to over £2000!
Remember that the old hydragas units ,some over 30 years old now, are sort after by people that want to be plagued by constant maintenance and fluid pumping and will offer crazy money for the used worn out hydragas units!! They often fetch £200-300 on Ebay! These crazy hobbiests are suffering from hydragasitis and the only cure is a FCCkit as prescribed by the MG doctor ;-).
Please check your countries regulations about using a different suspension as this can vary considerably due to local regulations. EG. New Zealand,Germany.Spain.

If you think the MGF was designed to have hydragas then read this extract from MG Enthusiast magazine interview with Gerry McGovern "
Recent, Feb 2020, MG Enthusiast interview with Gerry McGovern OBE chief designer at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR)Now Ex JLR!, who was part of the original design team, says 'The hydragas was frustrating from a design perspective because it created so much variance in the vehicle's ride height which meant you saw a lot of MG's with a 4x4 stance..in hindsight things that should have been done differently.. bigger budget and...not using hydragas suspension ..'
So there you have it from the horse's mouth so to speak..the car was fundamentally flawed from a suspension point of view and would have probably had a conventional coil over set up if the budget was available.The MGF was not 'designed' to have hydragas it got it by default! Cars that were 'designed' to have hydragas/hydroelastic were the Allegro and the Metro as well as other Austin Rover cars of that bygone era of the '70's and it worked well for these cars but not a sportscar made in the '90's . Well, dreams can come true with the FCCKit!! You can now also upgrade your Metro Mk1 and MK2 front suspension with similar recently developed kits.
Please note these kits are fully developed with over 9 years in production (2017) and when compared to coil in a a can (CIAC) systems the FCCkits replace all the moving suspension parts (not ball joints) so you are not fitting new to old components. eg top arms,knuckle joints etc. The cost for a CIAC system is invariably more if you replace all the parts that are supplied in the FCCKits and the loads are not transferred into the weak areas of the body shell but are supported by the subframe as the later MGTF system.Currently a CIAC system is £1056 plus vat int the UK and £1648 from a EU supplier.!! Neither are supplied with top arm bearings and pivots or new knuckle joints..this would push the prices beyond the price of a FCCKit!!
BTW despite claims by some retailers that sell re-gassed hydragas units as 'refurbished' it is not possible to refurbish the units fully. The internal valving corrodes and the rubber membrane that separates the nitrogen from the fluid also perishes and can fail without warning. A re-gassed unit has nitrogen recharged through a welded on valve and maybe the outer casing repainted to disguise any corrosion but doesn't address the internal corrosion especially the internal valving.The hydragas units had a limited service life span of approx 10 years and to stretch that further than designed makes them much more unreliable. Re-gassing them to full pressure will also shorten the life span.You wouldn't use a 25 year old tyre even if you put fresh air in and painted it with tyre black! As time goes on there will be less and less serviceable units, with springs and shocks they will always be available in any part of the World. You won't need to find a garage with a hydragas vacuum pump, fluid and with the expertise to change one! In any event the standard ride height as Mr McGovern states was far too high (factory height was 368mm) and this caused far too many issues. With a FCCKit you can set the ride height from 330mm and also adjust the camber and damper settings allowing you to set the car to your requirements.When you take into account the number of components that are replaced it is good value for money compared to the alternatives.and you have a brand new reliable suspension !
(102) Mike Satur - YouTube

Please check your countries regulations about using a different suspension as this can vary considerably due to local regulations. EG. New Zealand,Germany..

Customer reviews.
Last Picture is from Andy Lincoln and son from Califormia USA. enjoying touring with his Abingdon and recently fitted FCCkit. (2025)
Thierry, France.

Best MGF Modification ever !

Thanks to Mike to do it for us and for his patience to help fitting correctly. Always available for advices or just to check, it's really appreciable in this world in this business. It is a best modification you can do it for your MGF. The car is completely transformed and suddenly recover a performance suspension (as it should be for sport car like Lotus at the time). Adjustable dampers allow to set it for road or track. Adjustable high riding between front an rear is also a liberation of hydragas system (and don't change). Adjustable camber is also a great as benefit. It requires a serious mechanic level to do it correctly with hours to spend with complete geometry resetting at the end, so don't hesitate to let a professional to do it if you are not able or if you don't have enough time. it's worth it undeniably instead of reconditioned (painted and £3 of nitrogen isn't reconditioned! MS)spheres and rusty pipes !
JLC 03/23
Car now taxed and I’m running around in it, albeit with maximum negative camber. The ride is transformed, no other way to describe it, even on the worst of roads there is no more rattles and bumps, it just glides over. I would even suggest it’s as good as my Avensis saloon car I drive most other days. It makes the car quieter and more relaxing to drive. I remember the last time I drove with my spheres still in place it wasn’t pleasant, I dreaded every bump. I am fast forgetting what that was like. Thursday I’ll be getting the camber done and then it will handle properly as well.

M Hartnell

My car is an MGF Trophy. I purchased it in 2008. After 4 years the rear displacer leaked, No replacements were available so I fitted 2 second hand standard spheres. Then I had the first suplex kit designed for the Trophy. This caused problems but it kept the car on the road,

In 2020 I bought the kit manufactured by yourself. It was fitted by the Bristol MG Workshop. We were all impressed with the quality and ease of fitting.

The difference was amazing. I have driven it for some 20.000 miles. It has been completely trouble free and transformed the car. The ride is more positive and supple and the handling superb. The only issue that has arisen is a broken spring on the front nearside. This is no surprise with the state of the roads around here. It's extremely common here for springs to be replaced, something that was unheard of a few years ago.

I would recommend this kit to any MGF owner. MH. 22/09/23

MGF SUSPENSE Report from Tasmania.

Modifying a car takes courage, skill, talent and perhaps, some madness. From my feeble attempts to ‘improve’ my 1960’s MG Midget and Morris Minor, I soon learnt to respect how cars are a system of components designed to fit and work together. Modify one component and it could be an endless domino of problems. I found it challenging enough to fit new, after-market components that look the same but are ‘just slightly’ altered to evade copyrights and patents. I do admire the work completed in hot rods and custom cars, many are a one-off works of art. Mind you, many are hideous looking and a mechanical scrambled egg with components from various marques. Modifying a car is a highly skilled process. My cars will remain as their maker intended, until I had no choice.
My 20-year-old MGF, the only new car I indulged myself with; had suspension problems. Like all MGFs, the hydragas suspension needed replacing. The suspension used four displacers containing nitrogen in an upper sphere and a hydragas fluid in the lower sphere. The nitrogen being compressible provides the springing/damping and the fluid controls the ride height. When the car was new, it was brilliant, providing a comfortable ride and good handling but as it aged, the nitrogen escaped and the suspension dropped. Pumping more fluid raised the suspension but it didn’t overcome the loss of compression, (the springing), leaving the suspension hard. New displacers were no longer available. I had 3 options, sell the car, reconditioned displacers or replace the suspension with a coil kit that had just arrived on the market. Selling my immaculate car with 50,000ks in return for the loose change dictated by market value, wasn’t an option. Reconditioned displacers were of unknown quality and very expensive. I was about to move from traffic congested Melbourne to a small, coastal town in Tasmania, an island state, so not having to find where to pump up the hydragas was an advantage of the coil replacement kits. I had the choice of two kits. An Australian kit that had mixed reviews and soon became no longer available. The other kit, known as Xpart/Suplex, was sold by retailer Rimmers UK whom I had purchased all factory spares from. The Suplex kit was described as commissioned by Caterpillar logistics, the official distributor of genuine MG Rover parts and used engineers who were involved in the development of the MGTF. The advertisement description continued: “detailed and involved calculations were performed along with physical testing to determine the effective spring rates, ride frequency and damping forces of the original hydro pneumatic system. The resultant designs were put through two years of evaluation and proving before sign off and release.” The perfect, professionally engineered replacement. No back-shed production.
When the kit was first fitted to my car the suspension was comfortable but the comfortable ride gradually became harder and noisy; 3 months after the installation there was no doubt it wasn’t right. I contacted xpart, their response: ‘nothing to do with us, see the retailer.’ Rimmers said it wasn’t a product they had issues with and suggested I return to the garage. The garage checked and reset the suspension twice, declaring the problem was the suspension design. The suspension got harder and the noise got louder. I continued informing Rimmers, sending descriptions and a recording of the noise. Rimmer’s spoke person politely acknowledged each email and thanked me for my patience. The emails exchange continued for months with no result. Eight months on, Rimmers sent me a warranty application form to fill and I took the car to two garages for diagnosis, both identified the problem as failed rear suspension. Rimmers agreed to replace the rear coil canisters but said I had to wait for the two canisters to be manufactured. Four months had passed when Rimmers told me the manufacture refused my claim because one garage said ‘the rear coil canisters appeared to have leaked a fluid’ when the canisters contained no fluid.
The car was unroadworthy; it skipped/hopped and juddered on turns and slammed over the slightest ridge. Forty kilometres an hour over reflectors on the road surface felt like a mallet striking my spine. I feared chipping my teeth. The suspension loudly clanged, grinded and metal moaned like a rusty gate, loud enough to stop pedestrians; many of whom would comment. Driving so slowly, I frustrated other drivers. The rear wheels developed an extreme negative camber and there was about 10mm between the top off the tyre and wheel arch. On the internet I read horror reports about the Xpart/Suplex kit. Owners displayed photos of their cars’ bodies fractured from the impacts. Forum after forum, owners expressing their frustration. I parked my car and decided not to drive it until it was fixed. Months passed, still no progress. I was paying registration and insurance for a car I couldn’t use. I continued to chase my warranty claim, asking Rimmers to give me 2 coil canisters from the complete kits they have in stock. They promised they were doing their best to resolve the problem as soon as possible and thanked me for my patience. From the internet I learnt about a Mike Satur kit that owners had nothing but praise for. I contacted Mike and he helped arrange test drive of a local car with a Satur suspension. The impressive ride was sure footed yet comfortable. The year ended and still no progress with Rimmers so I loaded up the credit card and purchased a Mike Satur kit. A few days later, Rimmers contact me, agreeing to replace the two coils from their stock, only to withdraw the offer a day later because the manufacture decided to supply me with a complete suplex kit and contribute to the cost of fitting the kit! In a personal letter of apology, the manufacturer explains that they manufactured thousands of these kits world-wide and have very few problems (that's not what I've heard!!) and pride themselves on their customer service. They admitted to failing me and wanted to win back my confidence. After over a year of emails, promises, hoops to jump thru, knock backs, excuses and delays, not to mention the cost; I asked them if it’s an on-going joke.
The Satur kit arrived. I could see from the extensive parts this was a far more serious modification than the Suplex kit. The Suplex kit replaced each displacer with a coil in a canister and a telescopic shock; the Satur kit was a totally new suspension, replacing most of the factory suspension. The hunt for a garage to fit the Satur kit wasn’t easy in country Tasmania, most would respond ‘too big a job’, ‘not my kind of work’, ‘we’re too busy’. Months later, the MS kit was fitted, and driving the car is wonderful. The noise, banging, skipping, jarring and slamming are gone. The car rides very much like it did when new. The garage owner, not keen on modifying cars; said the kit was a clever design but he found the instructions frustrating. I studied the old Suplex components, one of the Suplex rear canisters was scored and the shocks were jelly soft. I noted the central fixing point of each canister had moved off centre, the rear driver’s side being the worst.
Mike Satur’s interest and support was impressive. Throughout the process, he emailed me for progress reports and was always on hand to assist. When the garage couldn’t get the sway bar on, Mike knew the problem and quickly emailed photos and an explanation of the missing spacer. He’s definitely stands by his product and doesn’t disappear once the sale is made. At the time of writing, Rimmers said they will refund the cost of the Suplex kit upon its return.
Car modification is riddled with risks and unforeseeable problems, even for professional engineers. I can only admire those few who succeed, like Mike Satur. His skill re-engineered the suspension and saved my car for me to enjoy once more.
Cost summary:
Suplex kit $A1464 Postage to Australia $A240, import duty $A358, fitting cost $A1300, Towing to and from garage because of covid lock down 5k limit: $A400, garage inspections $380 total: $A4,142
Mike Satur kit inc postage: $A2917.58, import duty: $486.65, fitting: $1700. Total: $A5103

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