Bpohlman13

If I dont like the characteristics of the stiffer roll bar in the front, i will switch it out to the stock one. Thats not too hard to do.

As for tires, I have been looking at the nitto nt-05. What is your view on these tires? What tire do you believe would best suite my needs? I dont plan on turning this into a track car any time soon, and dont mind road noise. This is my dd that i will every once in a while go track it for fun. If at some point I want to track it on a regular basis, I will buy a dedicated set of tires and wheels just for use on the track.

Jazzer The Cat

I like the NT05's and think teej runs or has run them, so can give you a first-person review. You're in Cali, as I am, so you can run a pretty aggressive tire, if you so choose. I run a set of PS2's for Winter and 888's for Summer/HPDE race use. I am happy with this combo, but may switch up my race tires at some point.

Grippier tires are not only more expensive to purchase, but wear faster and "R" comps have a lot less tread depth from the start.

Jazzer

teej281

Jazzer, you are correct that I've run them in the past. I dont have them on my car currently because I got a heck of a deal on 335's! I loved my NT05's. They were great and stuck well, were quiet, but didnt get more than 12k miles out of them. So I had to replace them in less than a year. My Toyo RA1's have lasted me longer than the NT05's and they are an R compound 100 treadwear tire. NT05's on all four would make for a good setup. 295/35-18's out back with 255/40-18's up front will match height.

As far as your body roll, I have stock 03 cobra out back and stock GT out front and with my coilovers I don't have any body roll hardly at all. So you might want to consider changing up to coilovers. Any stiffer stock location springs might be a little hard to swallow as far as ride is concerned. Heck, I cant even find any IRS springs that are going to be any stiffer than the H&R Race. They really are a great investment. And you can set your ride height to where you want to and dial in your handling with the different spring choices.

Bpohlman13

I guess I will return the swaybars and spend the extra $100 on front coilovers.

teej281

Good choice! Helps with body roll and brake dive a lot! My car hardly dives at all with the coilovers!

brent22

Digging the mods man!

Jazzer The Cat

Some body roll is not a bad thing and, in fact, is necessary to some degree. Go out and find a large parking lot and get a feel for understeer/oversteer issues. If you have body roll, but lots of understeer, you need to beef up the rear bar/springs, more than the fronts.

Jazzer

Bpohlman13

Ok, so I am addaing and changing a few things to the list.
Nitto NT05 tires
Cobra 10th anniversary Rims (18x9 and 18x10) These are about the same weight as the XXR 521's
I am also going to install the eibach rear sway bar to compoensate for understeer
MM front coilovers (Need to call MM to decide on the proper springrate)
Custom rear braided brake lines

Hey teej, about how long are the rear brake hoses for the cobra? Im running ones for a solid axle because My car didnt have ABS. So regular cobra ones will not work.

Then all I really need to finish my suspension setup is MM k member and tubular a arms. Which will happen when i put the engine in, in a few months.

Jazzer The Cat

Jazzer

crash

Let me know how it all feels afterwards. I'll need to replace my shocks/struts soon and I kinda want to do a little more than that. ****, next time I'm in socal i should just hit you up lol. Speaking of meeting up, Jazzer, we should have lunch again when it gets warmer. I still need to check out this road in your sig!