best single suspension upgrade

Good to hear. Coilovers in almost all cases are completely unnecessary for a street car.

The coilover effect is extremely deceiving - most people think you get a huge handling upgrade from simply installing coilovers because they feel stiff and you feel glued to the road, which in most cases this is not true at all. Coilovers can help decrease your overall laptime around a track in a number of ways but the biggest effect isn’t actual cornering ability. I won’t get in to it here, though.

Do your basic stuff talked about here, some chassis bracing and sway bars and maybe a nice spring/strut combo and a good wheel/tire combo and you’ll be driving around in a very nice handling car.

If anything is adjustable, make sure you know what you’re doing before you dive in to it. The feel you get from a lot of these upgrades is usually positive, but it is not always affecting the actual performance of the car in a positive way, some of it can be counter-intuitive. Ask questions and do some reading and enjoy - you’re already on the right track.

I was laughing pretty good after reading the first page of this thread, I’m glad to see someone is now bringing some truth to the topic.

Drifters commenting on handling upgrades… really now.

:stuck_out_tongue:

  1. Bushings (All of them Poly or solid your choice)
  2. Sways w/ end links
  3. Front/Rear Camber Adjustment Capabilites (Plates for the front / RUCA’s or eccentric bushings for the rear)
  4. Tires, something sticky
  5. Coilovers or nice strut / spring combo (depends how much track time you will actually see, street driving on coil overs sucks.)
  6. Strut Bars
  7. Rear Multilink (If you feel the need for that much adjustability)

IMO

Alignment is key. A (modified) car properly setup will make night and day difference.

I agree with Hurricane that bushings are the fist and most important upgrade on any s chassis.
All that fancy coilovers and sways won’t help you much if your car wobble like fishing lure with every maneuver on the road.

where can one find a good bushings kit?