Did you call Steve Weiner at Rennsport Systems? He's far and away the most knowledgeable Rennlister. Explain to him what you want to do with the car and he can put a "kit" or a plan together for you. It will be a few bucks more here and there, but in my early days his advice was priceless. He'll tell you to look at the Elephant site, but then he will buy them from Chuck or from the respective manufacturers, I'm thinking street car and you may be thinking track car. If you are going to drive this car in anger then ya, you need Steve.

Also Rebel will sell you individual components like nobody else. I've purchased individual coilover conversion parts, individual steering components when others wanted to sell their entire kit. He'll sell you a single seal if that's what you need.

 

I have had good luck with paragon products.

 

Smart Racing back in the day. I miss them.

 

All I know is I cant wait to start building my suspension up with ER parts. Little things, like their SUPER user friendly website, use of diagrams, references explaining basically everything you need to know... Those are the aspects that grab my interest, initially. Not to mention seeing those gorgeous components..

 

Many guys just want to refresh. Not want to get into the intricacies of suspension setups
Pelican is also good for worn out. Bushings and the like.

 

Hmmm... their website seems lacking to me. It shows all their fancy parts, but no explanation of the part, what factory part it replaces, or how it works with the car.
The only thing keeping me from buying some of their more advanced setups is that I haven't a clue how it even works or what makes it better than the original.

 

Sure you are on the correct site???

I'm pretty sure every part they offer has a description similar to this...

 

HA! Apparently I wasn't at the correct place... I was trying to get details through the suspension builder page...

 

What's wrong with OEM?





When Derrick Bell drives my car it goes really fast, when I drive it - no so much.

Richard Newton

 

HAHA.... you're kidding... right? LOOK AT ALL THAT BODY ROLL!!!

 

Yeah but I get his point. Most of us are a long way from being able to drive our cars like Derrick Bell. I know I don't come close to maxing out my stock suspension.

Wrestling with this now myself, but I think rather than spend an extra few hundred dollars on new torsions for a street-driven Targa, I'm just going to refresh the bushings and buy new shocks.

I have to admit though, there is also the satisfaction of upgrading everything and knowing I'm driving a car with even more potential than stock, even if I may never take advantage of it. Thus the temptation.

Mark

 

I hope you were kidding when you posted that. I'll take a car with body roll I can trust long before I will take a stiff car that wants to slide without warning. The key is balance. You want a car that is still drivable.....

 

I think Trak missed the point.

Richard Newton

 

He made a good point. Body roll directly impacts handling.