[Ed Bighi]

One of these days I am going to throw a set of rear 26 turbo torsion bars, G50 carrera sways along with bilstein sports in my sister's 84 carrera just to see what it will feel like. While I know what 23/30 feels like since I have that on my SC, along with what 22/28 or 22/29 feels like since I have driven plenty with that setup, I want to see if the standard late turbo setup on bilstein sports will approach that "just right" feeling I get when I am in a 930 with the same specs. I want to see just how much the shorter trailing arms and revised a-arm mounting geometry really do. Or maybe find what is the lowest ammount of modifications to achieve the biggest result is in an SC or Carrera. All while being able to drive hard through crappy streets if need be, but still being decent on the track. Not something I can do without losing tooth fillings in my sc which weighs in at 2250 on the torsion bars mentioned above. And all on factory parts since I have been into this sort of thing lately. After all, other than the shocks, everything else can be had from a junkyard. If I like it, I just might ditch the 23/30 on the SC and put on standard turbo items. After all the car is light enough to increase their effect.

While on the subject of suspensions, I have always wondered what the RUF CTR ran on. I know it ran on bilstein sports or some other custom bilstein valving. I know the sway bars on that car were not the adjustable through the body type. They were a standard carrera design with the only difference being their size of 23 front and 22 rear. But I always wondered if it ran on stock turbo torsion bars. If if did, they worked great. No test of that car ever mentioned it being too softly sprung.