which one-engine or suspension?
12-10-2006, 04:30 PM
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which one-engine or suspension?
i am either going to go with engine or suspension mods for my car over the winter....if i go the engine route, i am going to get TF street heat manifold, TF stage 1 cam, roller rockers (dno to get either 1.6 or 1.7), valve springs and then eventually save up for heads...if i go with suspension i am going to get lakewood 90/10s and 50/50s, upper and lower rear control arms, caster cambers and frpp c springs and save up for weld draglites. which way should i go with??? and which one would make a bigger difference in performance??? if i am forgetting any mods for either suspension or engine let me know
12-11-2006, 02:04 AM
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RE: which one-engine or suspension?
Suspension first!! i say this for a couple of reasons.
1) You do the suspension now you won't have to worry about it later after you start making good hp.
2) putting all that hardware on your stock heads really won't make all that much more hp, i would just wait to do the heads, cam, intake all at once.
I remember reading about a car in 5.0 magazine that had all boltons and a full suspension and was running 12's on a stock longblock. I would also recomend not getting the 90/10's and 50/50's if your going to daily drive the car (really bumpy ride). Just get a set of fully adjustable front struts and rear shocks and just setting them up at the track for racing then a setup for the street.
1) You do the suspension now you won't have to worry about it later after you start making good hp.
2) putting all that hardware on your stock heads really won't make all that much more hp, i would just wait to do the heads, cam, intake all at once.
I remember reading about a car in 5.0 magazine that had all boltons and a full suspension and was running 12's on a stock longblock. I would also recomend not getting the 90/10's and 50/50's if your going to daily drive the car (really bumpy ride). Just get a set of fully adjustable front struts and rear shocks and just setting them up at the track for racing then a setup for the street.
