front suspension advice
front suspension advice hello everyone
i recently installed bilstein slp shock, sub-frame connectors, adj. Panhard bar, strut brace, and control arms. Now i am focusing on the front. after i pick springs (leaning towards stranno or BMR) I am really not sure where to go from there. My car is a daily driver/weekend cruiser. what i am looking for is a car that handles like its on rails, without spending a fourtune. i drag race maybe 2 times a year. canyon carving is more my thing... I am just looking for some pointers. i have read through other threads most people want both drag and road course. im more like:
1) canyon carver
2) road course
3) drag racing
thanks for any help you guys can give me.
i recently installed bilstein slp shock, sub-frame connectors, adj. Panhard bar, strut brace, and control arms. Now i am focusing on the front. after i pick springs (leaning towards stranno or BMR) I am really not sure where to go from there. My car is a daily driver/weekend cruiser. what i am looking for is a car that handles like its on rails, without spending a fourtune. i drag race maybe 2 times a year. canyon carving is more my thing... I am just looking for some pointers. i have read through other threads most people want both drag and road course. im more like:
1) canyon carver
2) road course
3) drag racing
thanks for any help you guys can give me.
hello everyone
i recently installed bilstein slp shock, sub-frame connectors, adj. Panhard bar, strut brace, and control arms. Now i am focusing on the front. after i pick springs (leaning towards stranno or BMR) I am really not sure where to go from there. My car is a daily driver/weekend cruiser. what i am looking for is a car that handles like its on rails, without spending a fourtune. i drag race maybe 2 times a year. canyon carving is more my thing... I am just looking for some pointers. i have read through other threads most people want both drag and road course. im more like:
1) canyon carver
2) road course
3) drag racing
thanks for any help you guys can give me.
i recently installed bilstein slp shock, sub-frame connectors, adj. Panhard bar, strut brace, and control arms. Now i am focusing on the front. after i pick springs (leaning towards stranno or BMR) I am really not sure where to go from there. My car is a daily driver/weekend cruiser. what i am looking for is a car that handles like its on rails, without spending a fourtune. i drag race maybe 2 times a year. canyon carving is more my thing... I am just looking for some pointers. i have read through other threads most people want both drag and road course. im more like:
1) canyon carver
2) road course
3) drag racing
thanks for any help you guys can give me.
got good tires. sway bars are 1 thing i was thinking about. how does a strano set compare to my ws6 stock sway bars? and anything else in addition to sway bars?
right now the car is a bolton car with a 100hp wet plate. but once the lq4 is complete im aiming for 500+whp + 200hp wet plate.... wont use nitrous much as i think 500+whp makes a great daily. but i like the idea of an extra 200 at the flip of a switch...
right now the car is a bolton car with a 100hp wet plate. but once the lq4 is complete im aiming for 500+whp + 200hp wet plate.... wont use nitrous much as i think 500+whp makes a great daily. but i like the idea of an extra 200 at the flip of a switch...
got good tires. sway bars are 1 thing i was thinking about. how does a strano set compare to my ws6 stock sway bars? and anything else in addition to sway bars?
right now the car is a bolton car with a 100hp wet plate. but once the lq4 is complete im aiming for 500+whp + 200hp wet plate.... wont use nitrous much as i think 500+whp makes a great daily. but i like the idea of an extra 200 at the flip of a switch...
right now the car is a bolton car with a 100hp wet plate. but once the lq4 is complete im aiming for 500+whp + 200hp wet plate.... wont use nitrous much as i think 500+whp makes a great daily. but i like the idea of an extra 200 at the flip of a switch...
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hello everyone
i recently installed bilstein slp shock, sub-frame connectors, adj. Panhard bar, strut brace, and control arms. Now i am focusing on the front. after i pick springs (leaning towards stranno or BMR) I am really not sure where to go from there. My car is a daily driver/weekend cruiser. what i am looking for is a car that handles like its on rails, without spending a fourtune. i drag race maybe 2 times a year. canyon carving is more my thing... I am just looking for some pointers. i have read through other threads most people want both drag and road course. im more like:
1) canyon carver
2) road course
3) drag racing
thanks for any help you guys can give me.
i recently installed bilstein slp shock, sub-frame connectors, adj. Panhard bar, strut brace, and control arms. Now i am focusing on the front. after i pick springs (leaning towards stranno or BMR) I am really not sure where to go from there. My car is a daily driver/weekend cruiser. what i am looking for is a car that handles like its on rails, without spending a fourtune. i drag race maybe 2 times a year. canyon carving is more my thing... I am just looking for some pointers. i have read through other threads most people want both drag and road course. im more like:
1) canyon carver
2) road course
3) drag racing
thanks for any help you guys can give me.
For handling:
#1 Good shocks
If you have the stock shocks in the front then grab some Koni SA's now while they are on sale. Best bang for the buck shock out there for all around performance.
#2 springs (strano or custom)
#3 swaybars
The WS6 swaybars are nothing special (the front is 2mm bigger over the base one, and the rears are the same as the base car), strano swaybars or UMI swaybars will be a night and day difference and very well balanced unlike most others.
A side note, if those rear LCAs are poly/poly combo then you might want to change those out as they will bind and hurt handling.
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I'm around (generally, though Race season starts for me this week) to help work through this. I get the idea, but the issue is with the details. The biggest being that I can make the car handle... but I dunno what your idea of "for not a lot of money" is. THAT is different for every single person. Individuals assign value differently, they have different ideas of what on rails is, etc.
If you can give me something more solid to work with, like a budget you want to play with I can work on a setup that fits that desire along with the "handling on rails" part. I'm not going to tell you that you have to have every single part known to man for this car, I'm only going to tell you what I think you should do based on what I've read here added to some knowledge of the budget in mind to come up with a result that suits what I think you are after. And I'm pretty good at it.
But I am not a mind reader. And knowing a budget is part of this. The other part is knowing what you don't like about how the car drives now (more than "the handling sucks"). Specifically what are the things it does the worse that you hate the most? Based on that I can make even better decisions because I have more tangible data to work from.
If you can give me something more solid to work with, like a budget you want to play with I can work on a setup that fits that desire along with the "handling on rails" part. I'm not going to tell you that you have to have every single part known to man for this car, I'm only going to tell you what I think you should do based on what I've read here added to some knowledge of the budget in mind to come up with a result that suits what I think you are after. And I'm pretty good at it.
But I am not a mind reader. And knowing a budget is part of this. The other part is knowing what you don't like about how the car drives now (more than "the handling sucks"). Specifically what are the things it does the worse that you hate the most? Based on that I can make even better decisions because I have more tangible data to work from.
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well i did just do a good amount of work to the rear suspension. i am going to drive it for a few weeks, see where the weak points are. thank you everyone. and Sam after everything i have read on here you are the only guy to go to. you will be hearing from me soon. thanks again
Knowing what you did to the rear would also be a factor. Some things back there mess with the end result. Remember that handling includes balance and predictability, and if the ends of the car aren't 'happy' with each other the result suffers.
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Results matter. Talk is cheap. We are miles beyond the success anyone else has had with the 4th gens, and C5, C6, C7 Corvettes,
10 SCCA Solo National Championships, 2008 Driver of they Year, 2012 Driver of Eminence
13 SCCA Pro Solo Nationals Championships
2023 UMI King of the Mountain Champion
www.stranoparts.com --814-849-3450
Results matter. Talk is cheap. We are miles beyond the success anyone else has had with the 4th gens, and C5, C6, C7 Corvettes,
10 SCCA Solo National Championships, 2008 Driver of they Year, 2012 Driver of Eminence
13 SCCA Pro Solo Nationals Championships
2023 UMI King of the Mountain Champion