Update
So I'm waiting for RideTech to send me new and improved front endlinks.........still waiting........mine were bent, ever so slightly, how? I do not know, but they had a slight bend in them, they are aluminum. They never made noise. Otherwise the RideTech coilovers are a great option for the money. Their communications could be better, I tend to converse via email due to work commitments. This is going back to since maybe February. Still....waiting...
Anyway there was some Z/28 struts/spring assemblies on ebay a few months back, I bought a set. And I bought the Z/28 anti-roll bars. The z/28 springs are stiff, borderline for me. With my Moreno camber plates, the front sat higher than the rear. I don't buy that the Z/28 stuff sits lower than the 1LE stuff, at the least it is the same ride height.
So I thought about blazing new trails. Z/28 struts/shocks with a set of BMR 1" drop springs
. Would the Z/28 struts "pack down" with too much dampning? (So much rebound that the springs would not spring back to a consistent ride height) No they haven't. I bought a set of JPSS Black magic anti-roll bars (ARB) from Bill Hurd because with the 1LE anti-roll bars I felt there was too much roll. Lowering springs lower the center of gravity but can affect the roll centers which induces more roll.
I just did a track day at Pitt Race on May 18th. Car rotates nice with throttle application, though maybe not as much as when I had the RideTechs and OE 1LE ARb's. i do have the JPSS fornt bar set to full stiff though. Transitions are nice. I had -2.0* front camber, .-8* on the rear . One thing I played with over the winter was the caster. I made new caster blocks and set the Morenos to more caster. I attained 9.5* of caster! Might be a record! From what I understand, beyond how caster affects the "feel", it helps the inner tire in a turn. if you run lots of negative static camber, this hurts that inner tire in a turn, it is leaning the wrong way. More caster helps you run less static camber. More static caster helps that tire. Now, how much? I do not know, I did not get any tire temp readings that were worth a damn, (only after cool down lap>>worthless).
Toe is at 1/16" in front, .20* rear. I set the alignment at the shop I mentioned earlier in my thread, Lohr Auto. I set the front to -.8* front camber, noted the adjuster at the knuckle , then set it to -2.4* (safe max) and noted the adjuster again. Each revolution of the adjuster at the knuckle equals .4* of camber change. I can now switch from street (-.8*) to race (-2.4*) without having to visit an alignment machine. I leave the Morenos alone because they are mostly adding positive caster, with just a little help adding negative camber. I adjust toe with a LongAcre Toe bar.