Friday, June 1, 2007

My Knuckles HURT. Front Bar On, Car Aligned, and WHAT A DIFFERENCE!

This car fights me. It fights me in turns, it fights me in the shop.

It took me 6 hours on my back to install a 35mm front sway bar. Why? Because I'm inept at car maintenance, mainly, but also because this car sat in a garage for 8 years, and the bolts surely resembled the lack of use. When finally on the car, I noticed a slight improvement, though I wasn't totally impressed... yet.

After Kyle Bishop (www.bishopmotorsports.com) told me I had Toe-IN and whacked out camber/caster, we set the toe-OUT to 1/8" total, -.9 camber (maxed out stock LCAs) and +5.5 caster.

WHAT A DIFFERENCE. If you own a F-Body - GET AN ALIGNMENT and a front bar!! Holy CRAP! My z28 NEVER felt this responsive. We'll see how it does at the next autocross events coming up..

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