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Old 01-01-2015, 10:08 PM
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Originally Posted by philooo
I am looking forward to your install,

I still have a full GT3 suspension set in a box, that I never installed but I think I will do it pretty soon.

I believe the biggest improvement if you car is high mileage would be to replace all rubber bushing you can. Either with monoball/spherical ones, if you like tight feedback or with stock new one:
- dog bones / upper rear control arms
- lower control arms, not sure if anyone sell the rubber alone, so may have to buy new arms
- trailing arms
- and the last pain in the ***, the big rubber under the rear frame, which so far I have never seen any DIY posted for.

These cars are great, their biggest enemy are these rubber bushing which are dead simply because they are old. mileage doesn't matter on these ones.
I believe the GT2s have solid subframe bushings already? Or maybe that is just legend...

Front is OEM.

Rear has adjustable LCAs, Tarrett monoballs, caster pucks, toe links, eccentric locking plates.

Soon to have Tarrett rear top mounts as well.

I changed my old 996TT dog bones and saw no improvement to be honest. I'll hold off on those until something is loose

Originally Posted by powdrhound
You want to get a corner balance done with the DLs one side of both front and rear disconnected. One your CB is done, and while the car is still on the rack, reconnect the DLs and adjust the length so there is no preload on the sway bar.
Understood. Will follow that procedure.
Old 01-01-2015, 10:58 PM
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Hey Henry, GT2's do have solid/metal subframe 'bushings'
Figure out what you're doing for coilovers?
Cheers,
Rob
Old 01-01-2015, 11:03 PM
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Originally Posted by 993GT
Hey Henry, GT2's do have solid/metal subframe 'bushings'
Figure out what you're doing for coilovers?
Cheers,
Rob
OEMs revalved w/ 700/900s

Give me some time to learn w/o all the *****
Old 01-01-2015, 11:34 PM
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goodstuff
still figuring out what my plan is for spring rates, but think 700/900 might be my route as well...looking forward to your review
Old 02-19-2015, 07:32 PM
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I went for the Tarret collars at this time as well. This way when I go for the JRZ/MCS 2ways I should have most of what I need in there. For now, I don't have any ***** to fiddle with.

Note: Apparently, I should have asked Bilstein to clean up the shocks explicitly. They did not.


;-) Yes I know the stack heights are all different. Just getting stuff assembled.
Old 02-19-2015, 07:59 PM
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pretty !

can you tell us which spring you decided to go with and if you asked for a special revolving or just stock ?
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sure! I went for 700f/900r springs. I gave those specs to Bilstein but they didn't ask about any other specifics -- they said they do these cars a lot and knew what to do. I did have the shock dynos sent over but I'm not really sure what they mean. Want me to post the dyno charts?



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