I was looking at the AJE website the other day and they make a K-member and A-arm set up that lets you use standard springs and shocks. While saving lots of weight. Jegs sells them, but I was wondering if anyone had heard anything about them?
If you are going to go that far to lighten up the front end I would suggest going with coil overs. AJE seems to make some nice stuff but everybody, including me will point you to Maximum motorsports for your susupension stuff. I havn't seen anybody run AJE parts yet... not to say that they aren't good but somebody would be hard pressed not to go with the industry standard of aftermarket suspension that has been proven. Griggs and MM stuff is top quaility. They will cost you a bit but AJE if I remember correctly wasn't all that cheap either. I have a set of tubular A arms and coilover kit from MMR and I must say that they look pretty nice(not installed yet). They claim to be almost identical to the MM a arms but half the price.
Kevin
AJE is pretty good stuff.
I sort of agree with Sicarious, maximum has better quality, but pricing really isn't a bit more, more like double. And the maximum stuff isn't as light either, better strenght has a weight penalty, so if you are in it for weight savings, it's not the way to go.
I would love to throw a MM max grip package on, but not this car. The budget and what I am going to do with this Stang will not permit me to go MM. I also already have some suspension parts on the car already so I am part and piecing all of it together. Is that MMR that you where talking about from Maximum?
MMR is Modular mustang racing. I bought my A arms and coilovers in some package that they were advertising on corral. I was able to get mine fox lenght a arms with sn95 ball joints. They come with poly bushings and seem well made.
Kevin
I purchased and installed the AJE K and A arms from Jegs. Those AJE guys were very helpful with my questions regarding the install which was a snap. Real personal service, you know? They told me to "drive it anywhere" when I asked about the possibility of the thing coming apart on a daily driven vehicle (we've all read the horror stories). I admire that kind of "bring it on" confidence. Anyways, I got the thing aligned w/ Steeda sport springs nestled in the cups and isolators in place, it handles sharply sans the kidney pounding ride.
I have the AJE with their uppers so i don't have to use coil overs. Excellent fit and quality. The MM is beafier, but I only drive my car on the weekends and such. either way, you will be fine.
I'm running the AJE k-member and tubular a-arms on my stang. I've got the coil-over setup on mine. I run the car on the street and occassionally at the track and it holds up nicely. I actually live pretty close to the guys as AJE so I drove over to their shop to check them out before I bought anything. Real nice guys that are really helpful and know their stuff. They even put in SN95 ball joints for me since I'm using the SN95 spindles. If I were building a road racer / autocrosser I might go with Maximum Motorsports but I think the AJE stuff is top notch for street/drag cars. Definately was a huge weight saver over the stock k-member.
I went with PA Racing's tubular k-member and A-arms. I was going to buy AJE but decided to go with PA. They are great, it fits perfect. I didn't do it to lighten the car nor for any other reason but looks. I didn't need the clearance or anything. I also bought the k-member and a-arms with spring perches so i could still retain my eiback pro-kit and kyb struts. Yes coil-overs are nice, but to be honest they aren't worth the money. I got suckered in and bought MM"s complete coil-over kit for my daily driver. When pulley into the drive way the rear coil-overs clatter because the rear end raises so high, i will never buy these for a street car again. NOTHING beats the stock style suspension in my opinion. MM's road still as crap as well, sure you can adjust ride height. But i never even bothered. It was just a pain because if you changed anything you always had to readjust it.
Just my .02
Edit: I will say MM is the best quality, but they are still over priced. And also the MM k-member screws up your front end specs. So then you front tire rubs the fender extensions, etc. Just a pain. Its not worth it in a street car. With that car i ended up going back to my stock K-member, tubular PA racing controls arms with spring perches and and a eiback pro-kit. Simple, cheap, and done right. No problems to this date.
Wow I don't think I have heard of them. Who sells Pa Racing stuff? Thanks for your opinion. That is what I was thinking, this car I am building will be a street/strip car. One day I will build a autocross car one day, but not this one. Anybody else out there have AJE on there car?