thank you all for your help. to answer some of your questions! we here in hawaii are do not have any track races that i know of so that idea is out and it seems that most owners with mustangs here are more into hp and looks. we also have to pay dearly in shipping cost to hawaii as compared to you guys when it comes to free shipping in the lowe 48 states. so, you guys and gals have more bang for your buck. i envy you all.
all your help has been tremendous and gives me an idea as to what i need to do. i would love to hear from anyone in the future with any mods similar to mine in the future. keep um coming and mahalo!

 

skyplilot

Sounds like you have worse in Hawaii than we have it here in Canada. Best of luck

 

Argonaut- I am thinking about getting the Eibach prokits for my 06 GT convertible, what dampers would you suggest to get? I do not want to hurt my ride at all.

Thanks,

Nick

 

Myself and many, many others like the Tokico D-specs because of their wide ranging adjustability. There are other options though, some of the road track and autocross guys like the Koni adjustables.

However, I got to warn you, the Eibach Pro is a stiff spring. Not sure what you mean by hurting the ride but it will be a firmer ride. This is the nature of any lowering spring. I have played around with the D-spec settings many times. You can change them about 10 turns, from full hard to full soft. At a setting of 7 I find the ride quite comfortable on the highway but the car will roll a lot in turns. At a setting of 2 it is too firm imo for long trips but it handles amazing. Case in point, today I drove from my home to Philly along the PA turnpike (2 hrs of solid highway). I had them set at 3.5. About halfway along my daughter in the back complained of feeling car sick. This was due to the firm ride, every expansion joint makes a solid thump you can feel thru the car. It starts to get anoying. On the way home I'm going to crank them out to 7 or 8, should be much more comfortable.

 

Both D-specs and Koni's have a wide range, but they do it very differently. First, D-specs do not have 10 turns. 7.5 turns from full hard is full soft, anything past there is simply starting to unscrew the rod from the guts.

Koni's are not only for the autox guys, they are for anyone seeking the best control and tire compliance. That's not something that is exclusive to autox or track driving. Roads have imperfections, and the car always has mass regardless of where it's being driven. What's more, the car doesn't KNOW if it's being driven on the interstate or around a bunch of pylons.

I sell both D-specs and Koni's. I have a set of D-specs on my floor right now in stock. I won Nationals on D-specs..... I prefer Koni's, I have Koni's on my personal car, and we are changing the car I won Nationals on over to Koni's. Frankly the reasons boil down to the fact I feel they work better and I DO NOT want a shock that changes compression and rebound together unless I have no other choice. I didn't when last year started, Koni's weren't available and I needed some tunability in the car so I went D-specs. While better than Illumina's of days past, they ain't Koni's. Compression and rebound are different types of damping, wanting more of one doesn't mean you want or need more of the other. You don't have that choice on D-specs, you get it whether you like it or not and too much compression wrecks ride quality. You can get it softer, but you give up rebound damping and that's what we want and is what makes performance cars feel crisp.

This is how I work, this is the kind of information I use to help make folks with decisions and recommendations. I'm not your average shop, I don't always care what the accepted thinking is because it's often not right.