Impressions:
Coming soon - with all this winter weather, I haven't had a chance to align or flog the car yet!
Past experience from folks seems to indiciate that it makes the car much more tailhappy, even a bit too much. I have a 22mm front swaybar by Whiteline from Mofugas that I will put on the car if it turns out to be a bit too twitchy.
Update: 2002.12.17:
I autocrossed the car finally. It was a completely different animal! There was a ton of front-end grip, and the car's dominant behavior was definitely understeer. For my complete writeup, see the racing section.
Update: 2002.11.05:
I went to get the car aligned yesterday. With my car at ~14.5"/14.5" ride height, I installed the rear bushings facing inboard, for maximum camber gain. That turned out to be just about right - the factory camber adjustment is about 2* off of full-negative, and I run -2* rear camber for my autocross car.
I will be racing the car at an autocross soon, but I'll make some other statements. The rear of the car is definitely a bit more, ah, liveley than before. When slaloming it aggressively on street tires, the first end to get unstuck is the rear. While a very subjective statement, the car feels much more 'solid' in the rear - you can feel more of what's going on back there. The car may finally not push like a pig!
Ride quality is definitely reduced - without that rubber to soak up little bumps, you feel much more of what's going on in the road. This is especially true of the front bushings.
Credits/Thanks:
A few notable ones here:
Erron Spalsbury - for welding the control arms
Erik Arentzen - for driving those bushings up to Ft. Collins for me
Mofugas Motorsports - for all around amazing service and support. Rob Schwenke does a great job.
Final Pricelist
This is what I spent on the project, not knowing what you should know now:
| Item |
Cost |
From |
| Energy Suspension Rear Bushings |
$38 |
RRE |
| Whiteline Bushings |
$44 |
Mofugas |
| 6 Washers |
$5 |
CD Fasteners (Ft. Collins) |
| 2 Balljoints (upper link) |
$50 |
Autozone |
| Press 6 Bushings (take 1) |
$50 |
Automotive Machine Shop Service (Ft. Collins) |
| 2 upper control arms (junkyard) |
$5 |
Junkyard |
| press metal bushings *back* in |
$20 |
Automotive Machine Shop Service (Ft. Collins) |
| 4-wheel alignment |
$55 |
M&O Tire |
| TOTAL: |
$257 |
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My Ingalls adjustable arms are now for sale.
Any questions/comments/flames/love letters to:
mrjones@holly.colostate.edu
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