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Nice upgrades Spirito . From picture with parts, the rear shock absorbers seems to be not sports one. Why you have choose to not upgrade rear shock, they are much cheaper than front one? Well spotted I ummed and ahhed long about this one, read a lot, drove a fair few cars before deciding that for me & the imperfect roads I drive on I wanted to bring it back to the original ride height (my car was lowered originally) and if I was keeping the 17" wheels I was hoping to make the suspension a little more compliant. The front has Koni sports becuase it needs it (does a lot of the work & is likely to wear sooner) but it's usually on about 1/3 setting from softest and the rear has TRW shocks that are to the OEM standard. I have new KYB standard height springs all round, the rear is all polybushed, new bump stops and the front has new arms, strut top mounts etc (standard). I cannot fault the rear end. It feels very well tied down, takes whatever roads I travel over with minimum of fuss & has grip levels that are in my experience incredible. With the polybushing at the rear I didn't think that firmer shocks (Koni's) were needed, in fact I think it would have made things too hard. Everybody I knew with Koni sports on the rear has them on the softest setting anyway which galvanized my choice for standard spec. rear shocks. The front is very good, still not perfect but is settling in now after 5000km's. I'm sure other will agree that finding the right compromise for the front end of these V6 916's isn't easy. I'm toying with ideas of uprating the rolll bars (especially at the rear) to give the steering a little more feel and directness. I am 100% happy with the ride/handling balance ... no longer am I on full alert for potholes & imperfections, mid corner surprises aren't likely to upset the car and I can live with the car on real roads. We don't do a lot of km's but it's our only car & it does a lot of long trips away. It still rides like a GTV (which is very lively). It will never be a boulevadier, it's suspension is a little old in design (Alfa 155 - 90's?) and more geared towards the sporting side. But I've bought the balance back a little bit and now that it's a little more compliant and a little less uncompromising I've found that it's actually more fun to drive faster & I can push it a little deeper without getting white knuckles or feeling like I'm going to break something. These are all subjective opinions of course ... but it works for me.