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I picked up a nice mint 2003 over the weekend, and i'm trying to plan out mods. I figure suspension / stiffening related makes more sense up front, I can spend a few hundred every month or two and enjoy the difference in the ride.
and after that, maybe some high performance engine mounts, I chuckle a little at how much the transmission tilts with accel/decel
But beyond that, I'm stumped as to which changes make enough of a difference to be worth it. Not so much worth the $, but worth the effort of installing
I picked up a nice mint 2003 over the weekend, and i'm trying to plan out mods. I figure suspension / stiffening related makes more sense up front, I can spend a few hundred every month or two and enjoy the difference in the ride.
So the question is what ones are really worth it?
I like the 3 point shock tower brace but there already is some 2 point brace there, I don't know which it is. so this seems a worthwhile upgrade
The undercarriage single bar seems to make sense for its price
and after that, maybe some high performance engine mounts, I chuckle a little at how much the transmission tilts with accel/decel
But beyond that, I'm stumped as to which changes make enough of a difference to be worth it. Not so much worth the $, but worth the effort of installing
maybe this rear shock tower brace?
Of course better sway bars, but I figure it makes more sense to stiffen up the suspension first to get max value out of that
Are the door bars worthwhile? and do they make getting in and out much more of a pain in the neck?
^This is all you need. I put on fender braces and those were instantly noticeable the first corner and bump I hit. They also reduced the the cowl shake that I kept experiencing when I first got my NA.
I've tried those shock tower braces, they don't make enough difference for you to feel anything, It's a waste of money and just adds weight.
Basically what i said, "frog arms" were the OG brace, AFAIK. Now that they are no longer made the FM ones are probably the go too. I just couldn't think of the name of the FM ones at the time.
Well, sure the sway bars are for body roll. If you don't stiffen up the body although you'll reduce roll, you'll still have the body flex, potentially even worse as now more of the force is put into the "frame" of the car as the suspension tries to take a flatter path. Body roll isn't in a turn identical front to back, so you'd be putting more torsional stress on the piece in the middle, the "frame". At least that's what I was thinking.
Well, sure the sway bars are for body roll. If you don't stiffen up the body although you'll reduce roll, you'll still have the body flex, potentially even worse as now more of the force is put into the "frame" of the car as the suspension tries to take a flatter path. Body roll isn't in a turn identical front to back, so you'd be putting more torsional stress on the piece in the middle, the "frame". At least that's what I was thinking.
Of course better sway bars, but I figure it makes more sense to stiffen up the suspension first to get max value out of that
This is what i didn't understand.
Anyways, a good suspension will have about.... 148,982,124,463.3x more impact to making the car good than anything being talked about in this thread.
Of course better sway bars, but I figure it makes more sense to stiffen up the suspension first to get max value out of that
This is what i didn't understand.
Anyways, a good suspension will have about.... 148,982,124,463.3x more impact to making the car good than anything being talked about in this thread.
Yeah, true. I guess I was thinking more in order of pain in the neck to install too get the hard parts done so my project energy doesn't peter out before i get to them. pretty common on my projects really, I complete 80% and trail off
02-20-2018, 07:03 AM
Stiffening a 2003
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