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Old 06-25-2006, 12:41 AM
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Originally Posted by BOYRACER
what kind of suspension are you looking for?
I would love to go Moton's, but too much considering i dont know how long im keeping the car for. Im going to do the JIC cross, with a stiff spring rate setup, i love back breaking rides My H+R sucks!
 
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Originally Posted by Zippy
Do sping rates in the front have to be softened to compensate for the 100 less pounds?
No since it's only about 6% of the weight of the front part of the car. He thought that the suspension (H&R coilovers & sways) was fine up front and didnt need any tuning but he did say I could get a front upper strut bar to stiffen the front up a bit if I wanted to.
 

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Originally Posted by iLLM3
I would love to go Moton's, but too much considering i dont know how long im keeping the car for. Im going to do the JIC cross, with a stiff spring rate setup, i love back breaking rides My H+R sucks!
You can do the GT3 adjustable sway bars now and not worry about those damn curved fron drop links!
 
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Originally Posted by Zippy
You can do the GT3 adjustable sway bars now and not worry about those damn curved fron drop links!
Yea im definitely doing the sways. Some people say just do rear though, or is it front, i wonder why
 
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Originally Posted by aj996tt
Thanks for the info- are all the steps pretty well known?
I think they've been discussed before, but the Tony and the mechanic who worked on my car walked me through what they did step by step when the car was on the rack. The most challenging work was getting the 996tt sub axels out of the cv joints/axels which only took about an hour for both.
 
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MArtin, time to take me for a ride!
 
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Originally Posted by iLLM3
Yea im definitely doing the sways. Some people say just do rear though, or is it front, i wonder why
Because they are lazy and the front drive shaft means you need the illusive CURVED front drop links so the sways don't bash into the shafts.

This obviously wont be a problem for you!
 
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The rear will give you better turn in and more oversteer...
 
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Thats it im disconnecting my RWD on my car.
 
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Originally Posted by Raza
MArtin, time to take me for a ride!
Careful Raza, I just might give you the mod bug that I got and you'll be going to a RWD set-up...

Btw, looks like that rear wiper delete is pretty easy to do...did you order yours?
 
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Originally Posted by SCM3
Thats it im disconnecting my RWD on my car.
See Vik, 6speedonline can make the "mod" virus worse...I wonder how many I will infect with the "RWD fever" from this thread...
 
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Originally Posted by USCTrojanMan29
See Vik, 6speedonline can make the "mod" virus worse...I wonder how many I will infect with the "RWD fever" from this thread...
LOL serious, i think this thread started the rwd conversion craze even more
 
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It's definately got me thinking. Anyone looked into that GT2 LSD yet? I bet its really expensive!
I did a little math and on a stage 2 car with about 525bhp, a loss of 125lbs equates to 19.6 bhp. If you also factor in an increase of 5% freed up from the drivetrain you should have another 27 bhp! for a total of 571.83bhp. Obviously you are not really gaining hp but this is what you would need in an AWD 996tt to be the equivalent of a 525hp RWD 996tt.
 
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This seems to be what all TTs need! I think you should invest in an LSD now...
 
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