First Step with Suspension

[Pa-fatboy]

If I have a limited amount of money for suspension, what would you guys recommend as a first step for my daily driver? My GT is a non-trackPack. The only frame and suspension mods are the strut tower brace and the vowel area brace, not sure what that's called.

I was looking at updated sway bars front and rear. I would like to drop it an inch, but also want to do that right. I'm not sure just replacing the springs is a good idea without looking at shock and struts too.

Say you have $400 for suspension, what would you do? Ultimate goal is to create a canyon carver that will be at home on the track and my local highways and industrial parks.

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[rio16]

If you wanna carve them TWISTIES Steeda G Trac brace, sway bar, springs and TIRES

 

[IvanCRF]

Free Front Swaybar Mod...Minus many drill bits.

 

[derieuz]

Step 1) Address subframe deflection. BMR, Steeda, or FTBR kit's will work.
Step 2) Toe-to-Knuckle Bearing, Ford Racing or FTBR kit will work.
Step 3) Toe links, BMR, Steeda, FTBR, or Ford Racing will work

Those 3 things should make the rear end feel a lot more communicative with the ground, should be less than $400 or less.

Make sure you pre-adjust toe links (if you opt for adjustable ones) and pre-mark where the eccentric toe bolts were before removal of the OEM toe links so you do not have to realign your car immediately.

Ultimately, those will be a great start to help your rear end out

Phase 2, I would get new swaybars and springs. If you do not want to change the springs right away, find either a progressive spring or a spring with very close to OEM rates (Like the BMR performance ones). If you go with shocks/coilovers, you'd probably get good results with most combinations. Popular ones seem to include the FRPP shocks with the Steeda Linears or BMR handling springs.

 

[SpeedLu]

Step 1) Address subframe deflection. BMR, Steeda, or FTBR kit's will work.
Step 2) Toe-to-Knuckle Bearing, Ford Racing or FTBR kit will work.
Step 3) Toe links, BMR, Steeda, FTBR, or Ford Racing will work

Those 3 things should make the rear end feel a lot more communicative with the ground, should be less than $400 or less.

Make sure you pre-adjust toe links (if you opt for adjustable ones) and pre-mark where the eccentric toe bolts were before removal of the OEM toe links so you do not have to realign your car immediately.

Ultimately, those will be a great start to help your rear end out

Phase 2, I would get new swaybars and springs. If you do not want to change the springs right away, find either a progressive spring or a spring with very close to OEM rates (Like the BMR performance ones). If you go with shocks/coilovers, you'd probably get good results with most combinations. Popular ones seem to include the FRPP shocks with the Steeda Linears or BMR handling springs.

Good info.

 

[Sinub]

You can notice noticeable positive affects from just springs. You just have to do some research and see what springs work best with stock.

 

[Anthony@HTM]

This is a very common question with many threads pertaining to this.

Cradle lockout, vertical links and toe links

 

[David@Steeda]

pm incoming, these threads seem to pop up pretty often.

 

[Pa-fatboy]

Great info all. Thanks for posting.

Sorry to be repetitive to other posts. I guess it's not that intuitive when doing searches to be able to find and read other posts to relate how it applies back to me.

 

[hiccup]

What the heck is this free sway bar mod?..is it worth doing on a perfpack gt?

 

[draconis123]

pm incoming, these threads seem to pop up pretty often.

Can I get that pm as well? I have same plan in the coming months.

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[JmalB]

What the heck is this free sway bar mod?..is it worth doing on a perfpack gt?

If you look at the front sway bar you will see there is a lot of metal between the holes and the rounded portion of the bar. Enough room drill holes. Drill the hole. Use the new hole. Free stiffer front sway bar.

 

[David@Steeda]

Can I get that pm as well? I have same plan in the coming months.

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You got it!

 

[NightmareMoon]

Tires have the single biggest effect on handling. They cost more than $400.

A stiffer front bar will only reduce grip at the front, although it may tighten up the response.

Better to adjust the alignment to get a better turn in response.

Springs might be a good idea, but yeah you would probably want to address the shocks at the same time.

 

[craig.martell]

Can I get that pm as well? I have same plan in the coming months.

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Me too please.

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