[s-cars] 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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