What gives with new Bilstein & Eibach Pro Kit install?
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I have the prokit and mach 1 tokico struts and shocks. The only beef i have is my damn camber plates clunking.....but they go away this weekend so its gravy. Far as bouncing around.....HELL NO.....my stang hardly moves at all now. Where I used to fish tail.....i don't anymore.....Hooks up better too
Maybe your shocks are to soft for that spring......its a varialbe rated springs so it should fit with most popular shocks. How does it sit? Could be settling...it will most likely settle up to level out. When I had mine put on it was high in the back and not as high in the front.....after a few weeks they settled pretty level....actually they are still settling
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I had that setup myself. My problem was that the car is timeshared between my wife and myself. Even though I liked the ride I would definitley get "the what-the-hell-did-you-do-to-the-car-now glare" going over rough roads and big bumps, especially those big bumps. So to soften things out, I went with some Tokico Illuminas. Even though I did really like the Bilsteins, I must admit that it the car is much more of a daily driver pleasure with the Tokicos.
Ok I have Eibach pro kit springs and Bilstein shocks and struts and have experienced the same thing especially on one section of pavement on (I 75)
at highway speeds it's the car going over bumps and the suspension reacting faster up and down than your body is. It's kinda of a weird feeling the car is just not floating over the bumps like it was before it's a very strange feeling but once you get used to it you can tell thats what is happening.
at highway speeds it's the car going over bumps and the suspension reacting faster up and down than your body is. It's kinda of a weird feeling the car is just not floating over the bumps like it was before it's a very strange feeling but once you get used to it you can tell thats what is happening.
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I think the main culprit that really underlines this issue is that archaic solid-rear axel. The firmer you go, the more reminders you get about that axel.BLUE03GT said:
Any lowering springs will make the ride firmer. Go with a progressive-rate spring for better ride quality (like Eibach Pro Kit). If you are really concerned about going too firm, then likely you won't need cc plates as they are generally only needed on greater than a 1.5 inch drop.
As a suggestion, I have heard that the Bullitt suspension package is very drivable, and it is also very affordable.
Generally the stock suspension is VERY soft. Maybe your shocks/struts have have become blown way early in life?
BLUE03GT said:
YES floating over bumps a mustangs suspension stock is somewhat stiff but if you get stiffer springs , shocks and struts that are stiffer and have less travel you will notice the bumps that were there befor will feel worse and some you didn't even notice befor, those would be the ones you were flaoting over.
I'm not talking Cadilac floating here just a stock mustang is much floater than
one with shorter stiffer springs and stiffer shocks and struts. If you don't believe me just ask (Stangly w/03 GT)
Just came back, again, from the alignment shop. Had Eibach Pro-kit (springs, hd front and rear swaybar) installed four years ago, and the shop now had installed new Bilstein shocks and struts, and X2 balljoints and bumpsteer kit, and Pacific 1" rear wheel spacers. While driving away I was rather disappointed to hear a repeated clunking sound, and the rear was very bouncy, and didn't steer well. The problem was that the rear Eibach swaybar was broken in two just in back of the bolt holes.
New swaybar arrived, and it had fitment problems, didn't line up real well with the left control arm, so we shimmed it to fit. Alignment was with about 5 degrees positive caster, 2.5 degrees negative camber, and 3/32 toein with the caster camber plates. It's a stiff drive, feel every bump, but it's nailed to the ground, bumpsteer is all gone, tracking problems are gone, and it corners REALLY well.
New swaybar arrived, and it had fitment problems, didn't line up real well with the left control arm, so we shimmed it to fit. Alignment was with about 5 degrees positive caster, 2.5 degrees negative camber, and 3/32 toein with the caster camber plates. It's a stiff drive, feel every bump, but it's nailed to the ground, bumpsteer is all gone, tracking problems are gone, and it corners REALLY well.
