Thanks Pfadt!!!

[1977and2010]

I finally installed all of my suspension pieces. I used Pfadt coilovers, trailing arms, sport swaybars, and endlinks (replaced Pedders solution b). BMR toe rods and Pedders radius, subframe, and diff bushings. I was having bad problems with understeer when autocrossing even using Pedders solution b swaybars (front soft and rear stiff settings) and a set of rear tires on the front. I recently switched to the Pfadt sport sways and added their coilovers and the understeers is ALMOST gone. The one issue I ran into after installing the coilovers was that I couldn't run the rear tires on the front any longer and dial in any neg camber. We even tried 5 mm spacers with no dice. The rear tires would bolt on (with spacers) but camber would only go to -0.4. So that left switching back to the stock front tires, neg camber is now 1.6. I was a little leary of this but after talking to Pfadt thats what I did. After running this weekend I can say I'm impressed, even with the skinny tires up front the understeer was almost completely gone. I say almost because this is a heavy car on street tires and if you want to it can still do it. Also the Pfadt front swaybar was sooooo easy to install I couldn't believe it. There were a lot of little things with the Pfadt parts that show how they put some real thought into designing their parts, like grease fittings, bushings with grease grooves, excellent fit, directions, and all the parts came complete and quickly. Well done guys. But thats enough brown nosing.

The first 2 pics are before, last 2 after. Lowered about an inch and a quarter. Videos are from this last weekend. The mods moved me up into a much tougher class where I got 4th against some really seasoned guys and their cars and 16th out of 68 total cars. The videos were the only two times I remembered to turn on the camera and both times I killed a cone, typical. Now I just need some more seat time with this setup and eventually some sticky tires.

Also thanks to Advance Performance tires in Tampa for a lot of good technical advice.

[Apex Motorsports]

Nice! I'm glad you finally got your suspension sorted.

[1977and2010]

me too, thanks.

[Ject]

Looks great!

Slightly off topic but... hows the head room with a helmet?
I find myself sitting way down in the seat to not rub on the roof with my helmet.
2nd thought, how did you mount camera? (what camera also?)

[1977and2010]

Originally Posted by Ject

Looks great!

Slightly off topic but... hows the head room with a helmet?
I find myself sitting way down in the seat to not rub on the roof with my helmet.
2nd thought, how did you mount camera? (what camera also?)

Headroom isn't bad, I just adjust the seat so I have as good visibility as possible. I made the camera mount out of a piece of 3/4" aluminum square tubing, mounted to the passenger headrest bars. Camera is a canon g5 I think.

[radz28]

Congrats!!! That's some great stuff you have there

[Silver Ice]

Looks great

[1977and2010]

Thanks for the replies.

[bob vogel]

looks like a lot of fun. thanks for the info

[PfadtRacing]

Josh, thank you very much for posting up with how your handling problems were fixed with the addition of our suspension. We have certainly appreciate the trust you put in us on the development work that we have done, that not every company does. PLEASE feel free to give us a ring with any more questions etc.

BTW, did you get the CAD images of wheel spacer option I sent you?

[1977and2010]

Nope and I sent you a pm.