I know both these guys have their own following, is any one of the two better? like proven better? I'm going to start redoing my rear suspension piece by piece, first with my lower ca's. and I'd like to pick one of these two and stick with them. As of now I'm leaning torwards baseline, but could get talked out of it if teamz has been proven better.

 

talk to 5.0kid.... Basically his whole suspension is through them, and his car is pretty quick

 

Same here front and rear of my car is team z. Dave has said on the corral there is a tenth of a difference in the uppers.

 

really? that's a big difference, especially since all their rear suspension components look the same lol.

 

Team Z and Dave Zimmerman is the man. I know him and kevins parts look the same but daves have been somewhat faster, a big name NMRA guy runs in drag radial went from baseline to team z and picked .05 on his 60' which is a lot when your running 1.2x 60's and he thus picked up a tenth on the top end. Im not sure where Kevin gets his parts made or if he makes them him self but I know dave's are made in house using USA chrommoly tubing. Another thing is that Dave only sells welded in Anti Roll bars where as kevin sells bolt in and weld in. You want to weld those in only when its taking the whole chassis weight on a small down link you want that force to be on a full welded plate and not a bolt in plate on the frame, bolt in should not even be an option. Dave goes to a lot of races as well if you buy his parts he will literally get down on his hands and knees n some times back to tune the suspension for you. Hes always open for tech calls. We were at the track and struggling with the new setup and we placed a call to him and he got us going in the right direction. I also got my car setup at his shop on the scales. A HUGE amount of the top nmra and nmca and ortc guys run his stuff. Its top notch and everything is inspected before and after for defects. I researched a long time before going with everything he had, and holy cow does it work good.

before team z


after team z

much straighter on launch.

 

Are you planning on drag racing suspension? Isn't Z not great for road race?

 

yeah the car is purely a straight line car(other than street time), no fast cornering for me. Looks like I may be going with teamz now. as far as the anti roll bars, I liked the idea of a bolt in one, because I myself can't weld, so it'd be nice If I could install it myself then take it somewhere to get welded while it was assembled. I don't know of any local suspension shops around here that i can take the car too and have an anti roll bar installed. but for now i'll just be getting the lca's, anti roll bar would be next but it'll be a while for that.

 

i know your in saginaw but the 2 hrs drive to taylor would be worth it to get the bar installed. You should have a chassis shop weld it in since it should be perfect square with the frame even bolt in you run the risk of not getting it exactly straight daves guy measure everything out before they weld. btw their welds (show quality)

 

he was talking about the angles of his plants the rear more

 

i talked to dave a little today on the corral, I will be going all teamz.

5.0kid, where is this shop at in taylor? do they have a website?