# suspension help **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/suspension-help/265445 **Category:** Vendor Marketplace **Created:** [November 8, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/suspension-help/265445 "2012-11-08T18:19:47Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 15
### Author: ![Cossey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Cossey](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Cossey) #### Post date: [November 13, 2012, 10:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/suspension-help/265445/15 "2012-11-13T10:07:15Z")
> [@bdambro"](#): > > Money isn’t an issue I spend to much anyway with 2 cars a bike anything else I deem nessacary ik it’s not a race car I just basically want no body roll sharp handling anything on the street I could tear up if you get what I mean it doesn’t needto be some crazy race car stuff. But say how good a porche or somthing handles an keeps to the ground is what I’d like bc I like fast corners. An such. No knowledge on suspension just want an know I need it bc the body roll is redic on the Balt > [@FS: honda stuff with pics!](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-honda-stuff-with-pics/50967/15): > > to be honest with you, if price isn’t a huge issue for you, i would say the money you plan on putting into the “race setup” should just go towards a good down payment on a better car with a better chassis from the start. > > the cobalt has a huge issue with the fact that it’s got a rear beam style suspension. it’s very limited and very pricey to “adjust” it correctly to make it a very capable platform. look at something that has got a fully independent suspension both front a rear to allow for you to get the “Porsche” like handling your looking for. > > just my .02, but i have a lot of years of playing with that suspension, and i feel like what your asking for is much easily achievable with something thats not a balt. As Brew said, if money isn’t an option (but in actuality it is, because if it wasn’t an option we wouldn’t be talking about modifying a Cobalt), get a new platform like a BMW M3. Some times you gotta realize you can’t polish a turd. I used to heavily track my Subaru Legacy, but that car started to hit a dead end when I realized no high-end suspension manufacturers made suspension setups for the car. Then I switched to a car that had a much better aftermarket track following and the world has been better since. Keep in mind when I say high-end, I am talking $2,500+ for just a set of dampers, meaning no mounts or springs included. I’m talking companies like JRZ, Moton, Motion Control, Penske, AST, etc… Bilstien, KW, Ohlins, etc… are not even high-end in my book. With all that said, you will not be tearing anything up on the street since there’s only so much a street car could do, and that is even less when it’s a FWD car like the Cobalt. Get a new platform before dumping a cent into the car. You want to make your front engined, FWD car handle like a rear engined, RWD car. It’s not going to happen unless you’re in reverse. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/suspension-help/265445)._