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Whats the Next Step for Suspension
It's winter time and that means time to tweak. I'm looking for the next logical suspension upgrade.
The car: 1981 SC w/ 3.6 - Weight 2688 4-5 DEs per year very little street Suspension 22/28 Torsion Bars Corner Balanced New Bilstien HDs up front New Bilstien Sports in Rear 22mm Front Sway ( solid non adjustable) 20 mm Rear Sway (Ditto) New Bushings all around The car is slowly becoming a track car with about 10% of time on the street. I trailer it to events. My thinking is that I will over time need to go to Monoball front and rear Bigger sways - Adjustable -23mm Front and rear Bigger Torsion 23-31 The question is what first. I can only afford one of the above this winter having just purchased a trailer and planning additional Brake work. My thought is the sway bars. Any Input? Jeff
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12-27-2005, 05:21 PM
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Smart Racing sway bars. Your torsion bars are pretty close and when you change them the next time you'll want to get shocks to match the bars.
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I will vote for the SRP Sway Bars as well....
Jim
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How does the car feel now as far as understeer, oversteer, or neutral handling? I have adjustable sways, and I find them key in dialing in the amount of neutral/oversteer I personally prefer. Smart Racing makes great sways, but they certainly aren't giving them away. I will eventually replace my Weltmeisters with them as budget and interest allows.
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Tarrett sways seem to offer what Smart has but saves $350 or so...... I have not heard a good arguement for the Smart bars over Tarrett yet. I also need to do this vs. my 22/21 Carrera bars.
I'm running 23/29 torsions and weigh about the same....I agree that the 23/31's would be a nice addition for you. After you are done, you may want to consider sending your Bilsteins in to have them re-valved to the spec of the car...sways/torsions/car weight etc.
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The SRP bars are a tad lighter. The curved parts are nice. They were first with a real high quality bar. Other reasons... Hmmm, let's see....
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the SRP bars allow you to "grow"
If you want to upgrade to a bigger bar later on, you can get just that the arms/droplinks will mount to the bigger bar that said, the tarett bars are very nice too
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