Need Some Suspension Guidance!

You are going to mix-match your suspension. Long soft springs are what you want in the front. Firm in the rear is good. Do you have subframes yet?

I run lakewood 90/10's and 50/50's, but my whole suspension is drag.

Kdubslugga said:

I do not have subframes yet. So it would be OK for me to run 90/10 up front and 50/50 in back with the BBK Springs?

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Yes, it would be OK, but not optimum. Do you allready have the springs? Thier controll arm package seems like a good deal, and those are definatly an imporvment. What are your goals with your car?

90/10's are over rated as being "race only" items, trust me, they are very streetable.

If the funds permit I would get adjustable struts & shocks. I just went through this delima about stuts while doing my 5 kug conversion. I got the Tokico drag struts for the front and will get the shocks later when I get extra Hot-rod $$$$. I looked at the Lakewoods draga(70/30 & 90/10's), Strange adjustables, KYB adjustables, Koni adjsutable and the Tokico's. The KYB & Koni's are mainly for handling(stiffing up the suspension) and the stange & Tokico's were a mix of both. I got the Tokico's mainly for the ease of adjustment & the adjustment settings, over the Strange adjustables. The Tokico's adjust on the top with a small flat head, and the Strange have an external adjusting knob on the lower part of the strut. Also when you adjust the Tokico's , both rebound and compression are effected, on the Strange only one was effected(can't remember which exactly).

I found out that the stiffest setting(#5) on the Tokico drags is equalvilant to stock struts. So you kinda get best of both worlds, good street struts, and can loosen them up for the track, to be like a 70/30 or 90/10.