Calling all suspension gurus
Robert Myers
robert at s-cars.org
Wed Oct 10 05:27:20 PDT 2007
Hi Y'all,
Miss Piggy is needing some suspension work. She has developed some
rather strange unidentified clunking and squeaking sounds from her
rear end. (OK, Paulie, that's entirely enough of that! ;-)) She
handles fairly well but can use a little tightening up. (Paulie -
quit that!) Her local road environment (southern
West-by-God-Virginia) provides a large number of sharp angle of
attack intersections and some major caverns loosely called potholes
which severely threaten her FMIC. For this reason lowering her
suspension makes no sense at all. The huge number of twisties in her
environment definitely require decent handling.
Ms. P. is a '95.5 urS and has: 113K miles, RS2 mods, FMIC, HRSB, and
BIRA system 3 brakes, HID low beams, plus a number of other
relatively minor mods. She still as her OEM suspension and is shod
with 245/50R16 tires/wheels which provide enough sidewall depth to
help a bit with the potholes. The current struts pass the push and
rebound test OK.
My other s-car has a set of Bilstein HD strut cartridges which have
been reasonably satisfactory but could be improved upon.
What do the suspension gurus recommend for Miss Piggy? OEM ride
height is probably best for conditions here so springs might not be
required but cartridges, bushings, mounts, etc., are all fair
game. I wish I could say that money is no object but it is at least
part of the consideration. :-(
Recommendations?
Bob
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