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Old 01-28-2010, 12:17 PM   #22
FUHRIUS
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Location: Los Gatos, CA
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personal opinion...

but I like both the feel and look of the car much better dropped a bit.
I chose go, essentially, ROW ride height with eibach springs and left the stock s struts alone. it gives the car a slightly stiffer ride vertically but did a lot to control roll. with the stock struts, it forced a more progressive feel to the struts, while maintain a pretty plush feel from the stock struts when they're at the beginning / middle of their travel.

most of the guys who seem to know what they're talking about that I've been talking to about where to take my suspension suggest that simply lowering the car gives the best bang for the buck handling improvement. next is to remove as much roll as possible. my next step is to do the gt3 front / tarett rear sways (with the tarett drop links). this should accomplish alot without getting into the bigger bucks of coilovers / control arms, etc.

with everything there will be sacrifice. they biggest potential problem being getting the cars to align properly. I, personally, like having the neg camber that is a certain result of lowering the car. the inside of the rear tires, in particular, take the brunt of it...but I'm still getting 7-8k miles out of my rear ps2's which doesn't seem to be too far off from what people are getting with stock geometries.

btw, the drop links are supposed to be the weakest link in the suspension, especially when pushed hard in a setting like at the track. my car's never seen the track, but I'm starting to move it in that direction.
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