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Paul, It sure must be a great improvement compare to heavy truck technology leaf springs... I'm just debating if I can justify the cost. I think there is three set ups currently on the market: Alston, Detroit Speed & Engineering and Air ride technologies. http://www.scandc.com/alston.htm http://www.detroitspeed.com/productpages/indproduct/rearsuspensionprod/q uadra_prod.htm http://www.ridetech.com/productinfo/airbarstang.asp Even if I choose the Alston set-up which is the cheapest, it's still a lot of cash for "two shocks and a couple of feet of tubing"! Do you know if it works together with a stock routed exhaust system? To me it looks like it will be a tight fit in there. /Niklas ........................................................................ . Niklas, that setup is VERY tempting for me as well... There are a lot of guys on the protouring site that LOVE it. There was a company down in central florida who installed one on the sema car, and afterwards flogged it and LOVED it combined with Speed-Tech's from subframe (which is a lot less that DSE's frame). Speed Tech Subframe with the SC and C/AFX spindle kit would be the ULTIMATE front suspension to me! Oh yeah don't forget AP Racing brakes! It seemed as though there were a lot of nay sayers when it first came out because it is a 4 link, which is known to not be as good as a 3 link for track days and such. But it was decided that it was really not noticeable to 90% of the people who drove their cars that hard because it was a well thought out design. To me the value of adding coilovers to the equation, makes it so that I am REALLY interested in this setup when the time comes to work on that part of the car again. I have coilovers on my WRX and find that the slight changes in ride height really help the car react differently, Corner weighting is also nice, for an Auto X or track car. Also the ability to raise the car up if needed for some reason, or you want to ride around with it dumped for a while (check your alignment first!) then you could return it to the stock ride height if you wanted with some rally wheels and no one would know on cruise night. Paul Z. 68 350 5 Speed Coupe ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions to Firebird-L: <[email protected]> Unsubscribe from Firebird-L: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Help: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/firebird/Firebird-L.html> Classifieds: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/ubb/> Owner Pictures: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/show/> Donations: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/store/cart.mv?999999> FGF Merchandise: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/store>
