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Stronger Suspension?, Suspension |
Dion |
Mar 24 2005, 12:44 AM
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RN Group: Members Posts: 2,767 Joined: 16-September 04 From: Audubon,PA Member No.: 2,766 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
I had a question on the pics forum and was guided to post a new thread. This was probably discussed before, but here goes... I have recently added new steel flares and larger rims(17x7and 8) Does any one believe because of this the susp. should be "BEEFED" up. I currenly have stock BOGE struts and 170# springs.The rims are secured to the original 4 bolt hubs. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/huh.gif) Cheers,Dion
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Brett W |
Mar 24 2005, 12:37 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,856 Joined: 17-September 03 From: huntsville, al Member No.: 1,169 Region Association: None |
My preferred street setup is stock t-bars with 23mm weltmeister bar up front. Out back 180s with no sway bar work well.
To balance my ride the sway bar had to be run at half way, so I see know reason to go up to a bigger bar for the street. One problem with the 914 front suspension is roll center locations. When you lower the car any from the stock location it will move the roll centers. Add into that the really short A-arms and you get major movement of the roll center. When this happens you have to run a pretty stiff setup to keep roll down to a minimum. Now if you want to build new a-arms and move to nice coil over setup this would limit the need for superstiff suspension, although you will lose a little trunk space. |
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