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Originally Posted by derosa4
Very well said....nice to read an eloquent post once in a while.
I too am weary of the Suspension Snobs smoting down anybody not wearing Konis.
Its quite tiresome. Koni Koni Koni.....
A one off design, limited production set-up (Shocktec, the Bilstein based coilover, comes to mind as just ONE example) will probably smoke any of the best Koni set-ups described on these pages, but....where does it end??$$$ Oh look, now I can't afford gas... DOH!
Track time is an often overlooked suspension piece...can you do anything with what you've got? If you jumped in a '74 Valiant-leaf springs and all- and ran around the track with those cars, how would you do?
I bet you would do pretty well.
Whatever you do, remember this is supposed to fun, or at least a great experience...don't spend yourself out of that mindset. Buy the best you can afford and run the hell out of it.
The photo of you spanking a quarter of a million $$ worth of cars through that corner was priceless!  |
Thank you for the kind words.
I was talking to a friend who used to race. The advise I was given, and in my mind it was gold was, go with the Megan's, poly bushings and a stout swaybar. Tune it for all it's worth, and when your skills improve beyond the suspension, then and only then consider an upgrade.
Having driven the car in show room stock trim once, I can say that the Megans are a vast improvement over a AGX/stock spring combo (according to my butt suspension dyno), but as mentioned, I only had 5 laps of testing.
BTW, that shot was taken half way through lap 2, by lap 4 I had 10 seconds lead on the next car behind me and I had lots of speed left. I was slowly picking up speed so I could see where I started to feel the limits being approached.
I could go on and on about how great it felt, but I will post an update after the engine change and next track day.
I plan on posting a video on you tube after I get it pulled off the GF's camera.
