ACR2NV
10-20-2004, 12:22 AM
The Install:
This afternoon En-glaived and i headed over to Race Related (www.racerelated.com) to complete the install of his Mopar Stage 1 Springs (thanks Modern Performance) and his 26mm(F)/19mm(R) sway bars + endlinks (thanks Cali).
The install went smoothly and quickly.
A visitor to the shop looked at me horrified when i was taking the rear strut tops off because he was under the impression these things would come flying off at me :cool: I had to explain to him about the 125lb rear springs on the car and still weary he watched as i 1-2-3 took them bad boys off and reassembled the setup with the new springs.
I have to say the springs themselves look very quality, they come in gel coated blue aswell as Mopar nicely labeling the rears so you know not to mess these up. I was going to take pictures but we already have plenty of how to's on that.
The sway bars went on smoothly and easily, i mean after all these are OEM units the front one coming from a PT Turbo and the rear coming from a Neon RT/ACR. Cali provided us with 2 sets of endlinks in our transaction which are of the Energy Suspension brand. All in all everything bolted up and sat accordingly.
Pic:
http://24.29.204.118/NeonDan/10.19.04/beforeandafter.JPG
Impressions:
Before you could toss the car around and get a good bit of roll, tires would tend to loose traction easily around turns and torque steer was very apparent. Now the car stays pretty well planted, roll is less apparent and the car just hooks up then goes around turns. We still have a few more suspension bits to add but the car feels 10x better to drive around even with the modest drop. I'd like to let En-glaivedgive his take but i spent a few hours driving the car to ensure there were no funny noises or side effects...im just a tad anal but hey i treat every SRT4 i work on like its my own car...quality/honest work comes hand in hand when you keep that mentality
Nice ride En-glaived, now for wheels :D
This afternoon En-glaived and i headed over to Race Related (www.racerelated.com) to complete the install of his Mopar Stage 1 Springs (thanks Modern Performance) and his 26mm(F)/19mm(R) sway bars + endlinks (thanks Cali).
The install went smoothly and quickly.
A visitor to the shop looked at me horrified when i was taking the rear strut tops off because he was under the impression these things would come flying off at me :cool: I had to explain to him about the 125lb rear springs on the car and still weary he watched as i 1-2-3 took them bad boys off and reassembled the setup with the new springs.
I have to say the springs themselves look very quality, they come in gel coated blue aswell as Mopar nicely labeling the rears so you know not to mess these up. I was going to take pictures but we already have plenty of how to's on that.
The sway bars went on smoothly and easily, i mean after all these are OEM units the front one coming from a PT Turbo and the rear coming from a Neon RT/ACR. Cali provided us with 2 sets of endlinks in our transaction which are of the Energy Suspension brand. All in all everything bolted up and sat accordingly.
Pic:
http://24.29.204.118/NeonDan/10.19.04/beforeandafter.JPG
Impressions:
Before you could toss the car around and get a good bit of roll, tires would tend to loose traction easily around turns and torque steer was very apparent. Now the car stays pretty well planted, roll is less apparent and the car just hooks up then goes around turns. We still have a few more suspension bits to add but the car feels 10x better to drive around even with the modest drop. I'd like to let En-glaivedgive his take but i spent a few hours driving the car to ensure there were no funny noises or side effects...im just a tad anal but hey i treat every SRT4 i work on like its my own car...quality/honest work comes hand in hand when you keep that mentality
Nice ride En-glaived, now for wheels :D