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[simulatedwood]

Murlo,

Your setup should work just fine, Have you seen some of the setups evodave has been running (I believe 10.5 with 295 width) ? I think you are pretty safe on that setup. As far as Camber goes, Jeff the alingment guy was able to eek out 2.5 degrees of camber on the fronts on my setup just flipping the blots and applying pressure on the lower control arm with a bottle jack when tightening the bolts . As for the rest of the suspension, biggest bang for you buck will be a rear swaybar. I picked up a perrin from MAP for $180. Between tires, agressive alignment, and rear sway. You will be on rails.

[Murlo26]

Originally Posted by simulatedwood

Murlo,

Your setup should work just fine, Have you seen some of the setups evodave has been running (I believe 10.5 with 295 width) ? I think you are pretty safe on that setup. As far as Camber goes, Jeff the alingment guy was able to eek out 2.5 degrees of camber on the fronts on my setup just flipping the blots and applying pressure on the lower control arm with a bottle jack when tightening the bolts . As for the rest of the suspension, biggest bang for you buck will be a rear swaybar. I picked up a perrin from MAP for $180. Between tires, agressive alignment, and rear sway. You will be on rails.

Yea I am not too worried. So you think hold off on the drop for now and if that then the Whiteline RCK as well since i was getting that because of the drop?

Regardless I am happy since I am finally getting rims. I am really pushing the budget, but I didn't want to buy tires to go on the stock rims again since I wanted bigger tires...and then i would have to buy more again when I got rims. So kind of the lomker attitude of while your in there, i have that too Just not quite as bad.

[scheides]

Originally Posted by Murlo26

I only wanted to get my alignment done once

Alignment is something you should check up on once in a while, maintenance if you will. The bumps and bruises from driving a car thousands of miles can throw stuff out of whack more than you'd think!

Originally Posted by simulatedwood

As for the rest of the suspension, biggest bang for you buck will be a rear swaybar.

High five! This is in round #1 for mods on any car I have owned, it is insane how much of a difference you get for $200 and some cussing (during install ).

[mlomker]

Originally Posted by scheides

Alignment is something you should check up on once in a while, maintenance if you will.

On a car like this, I figure every Spring.

some cussing (during install ).

The hardest part on the X is dropping the exhaust. It'd be a 10 minute job otherwise.