Re: Bilsteins + H&Rs

[William J Erikson <williamjosiah@juno.com>]

My car does what you're describing - a lot. It's VERY sensitive to what
the road is doing - leaning left or right, cracks in the road, anything.
This happened, I think, when I changed my alignment from stock to -2
degrees of camber on both sides and 1/8" of toe out. I think it's worth
it.
	-Josiah



On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 18:45:32 -0700 Brad Sheridan <brads@mindspring.com>
writes:
>
>  Up to this past weekend, my 87 16V had the stock suspension still on 
>it.
>And it had lots of body roll in the corners, and the car would squat 
>and
>dive alot on takeoffs, gearchanges, and starts. So I put in Bilstein 
>sports
>shocks/struts and H&R lowering springs this past weekend. This was my 
>first
>time replacing struts/shocks and springs, but most of it went pretty 
>well.
>I had access to air tools, and other machine shop tools, so that 
>helped
>alot. I dropped the car off to get it aligned today, and told the shop 
>I
>wanted 0.5 degrees negative camber, and 1/32" toe out on each side. 
>The
>shop did exactly that, and told me what I wound up with, which was 
>pretty
>close to exactly what I asked for. 
>
>  I just got finished with a short test drive, and all I can say is 
>WOW!
>Zero dive/squat on braking/acceleration. The car is flat through 
>corners it
>used to have major body roll through. And yet it seemed to soak up 
>the
>bumps reasonably well. Unlike the ST springs I had on my last rocco, 
>these
>seem to be well matched. The fender to tire clearance is the same from 
>side
>to side. But it does seem as the rear sits a bit higher than the 
>front, by
>an inch or more. Is this normal? With the stock suspension, the rear 
>sat
>way too low, I think because it was in such bad shape.
>
> The first thing that came to mind was that now I need more power:).
>Before, the power and suspension seemed well matched. But with this 
>new
>suspension, the car really feels like it could use another 100 hp at 
>least.
>
>  The only other problem I noticed was that the car wouldn't track 
>quite
>straight. Sometimes it seemed to drift(very slightly) towards the 
>right,
>other times towards the left. Is this a result of the toe out spec, or 
>is
>there something else to look at? If it was pulling just to one side, 
>I
>would assume it was the alignment. But this doesn't seem like that at 
>all.
>
>Thanks,
>Brad
>
>
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