Suspensions upgrade

[911teo]

I am converting my Carrera to widebody. At the same time I was thinking of upgrading the whole suspension.

What would you recommend for a street car that will do 15/18 DE per year?
Also the car shoudl weight around 2,500lbs and will have a 3.6 Vram in the back.
Brakes are going to be Big Reds and I am planning on using Lindsay Racing 9x17 and 11x17.

I was browsing on the Elephant Racing website.

I know I need to replace the Torsion Bars and shocks to match.

For the others in order of importance what would you do?

- Camber Plates
- Polibronze spring plate bearings/control arm bearings
- front/rear monoball
- adjustable sway bars
- de-cambered ball joint
- low friction control arm mounts

I added the cost of all those components.... It is way over what I wanted to spend.... Any suggestions? Are some of those unnecessary on a street car?

Thanks again

[ubiquity0]

I would do front & rear bushings, torsions, shocks & adjustable sways and leave it at that for a good compromise. I'm assuming that since the car is street-drived as well you're not going to try & run big negative camber?

[Chuck Moreland]

Front monoballs and camber plates are mutually exclusive so you can save a few $ there. The monoballs mount into the factory camber plates.

The camber plates give you more negative camber, which you will want. De-cambered ball joints deliver a similar amount of camber. These products can be used together for lots of camber, but that maybe more than you need. Decide how much camber you want, you may be able to get there with just one of the two products. De-cambered ball joints get you the camber for $100 less, plus you would have replaced ball jonts anyway so you are saving there.

If you want to spread the cost into phases, do it "inside out". That means do the bushings, tbars, monoballs first. These items are less labor when replaced together, much easier to do while-you're-in-there. Plus you'll need to set height, corner balance, and align after each of these items, so do them all together instead of repeating that costly step.

You can defer sway bars to phase 2, since these items are easily added later without repeating labor or disturbing the alignment.