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Your getting there! I would still keep the rear torsion bars in there and go with a lower spring rate in your helper. You only have to reindex the bars once for your desired ride height and then that's it for a street car, you never have to touch it again.
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Any particular reason for this? Concerns about the strength of the shock mounts? FWIW the Paragon kit does come with the Racer's Edge lower shock mount. I guess the attraction for me is being able to lower the ride on a track day but keep it stock on the street and not carrying the extra weight around if I don't have to.
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I would stick to stock Euro ride height which I think is about 1in lower than US. Just make sure your front control arms are parallel to the ground and if there any rake, that the back is higher (1/4-1/2) inch higher than the front, but level is good.
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That's what I was going to go for and I was going to have the local Porsche shop check the height while it's on the alignment rack and help me dial it in.
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You don't need to match the spring effective exactly right front to rear, just close enough. You can dial in the handling to your preference once you drive it a while on your new suspension using bigger/smaller sways and tire widths. It's a process and everyone will like things a little differently.
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Ain't that the truth. I'm sure for the first six months I'm just going to be thrilled to have something decent on there at all. =)
[QUOTE=9FF;6490550]Finally, if you do remove the torsion bars make sure you remove the rubber "doughnuts" on the spring plates and fit something like Delrin.[\QUOTE]
I've got the polygraphite ones coming for the spring plates. Should I switch to Delrin then?
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You will also need a good alignment after everything is fitted. Lowering will push your tires into positive camber territory and you don't want that. GL
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Yeah the plan is to take it to the local Porsche shop w/ new rubber, have that installed and balanced and then a full 4 wheel alignment done all at once. No sense in wearing new rubber funny.
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Thanks again!