mustangbr

Unfortunately I think Koni Yellows + Springs + strut mounts or cc plates + pan hard bar would pass my $1000 budget.

2012StangMan

Yeah. You cant really lower these cars on the cheap. Mine came out to about $2500. But I went ahead and got everything. And don't forget to include the price if you have it all done by a shop. They will charge you way too much for some simple stuff. Not sure of your housing situation, but I was able to do mine in my garage on jack stands. Pretty straight forward.

UPRSharad

Very few of us are rich. There's nothing wrong with upgrading one or two parts at a time. That's what I do.

Fox Fader

My car has only 15k on it so tomorrow, (unless I get lazy) I'm doing SR Performance springs and Ford Racing bump stops (All less than $130 catching the cyber Monday sale). If needed, later I'll get a PHB and camber bolts.
Down the road I'll do shocks and control arms.

Your $1000 pot doesn't even need to be that high.

mustangbr

Thanks for the replies.

The only reason why I wanted to do all the upgrades at the same time was because that would actually save money for installing in the shop.

Baggeds197

Save your money and bag it lol

Norm Peterson

I would go with 18" wheels and tires and put the money you saved over 20's into doing the alignment job right with either camber plates or Steeda HD strut mounts.

Even in street driving it is possible for them to slip, which will compromise the alignment setting.

Most crash bolts are only torqued down to about half what the OE strut bolts specify. Ford's own camber bolt is the only exception that I am sure of, and they require drilling or grinding.


Norm

StangingAround

I have the eibach camber bolts and have done two autocrosses seemingly no worse for the wear. Is there something I should look for just in case?

Norm Peterson

They will not show "wear".

The mostly benign possibility is suddenly noticing that your cambers are no longer correct.

In earlier S197s, a umber of people broke a steering knuckle at either autocross or road course running. Insufficiently torqued strut to knuckle fasteners were identified as a potential contributory cause. Steps were taken to reduce the likelihood of this happening, but a crash bolt that loses its clamping load for any reason would undo much of the design changes made.

Overtorquing a crash bolt will yield it and turn it into a conversation piece paperweight even if you don't actually break it.


Norm

robb15033

You can get excellent results with just H&R SS springs and a set of Steeda strut mounts. Any extra cash after parts, install, alignment, could go to an affordable KONI STR T set, maybe.
LINKS:
http://www.americanmuscle.com/hr-spo...-2011gtv6.html
http://www.steeda.com/store/steeda-m...unts-555-8135/
http://www.stangmods.com/Koni-STR-T-...108-p/4108.htm