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My tip: Don't lie directly under it when you're finishing unbolting everything.

Is there really a tach mounted to the rear view mirror?

Go in the Suspension and Vehicle Dynamics section and read.

So you want to use stock upper mounts? Or you want to get Tein of HKS upper mounts? You can use normal spring hats for 2.5" ID coil springs on stock rear mounts, the front mounts are a little different and you could try some things, but using rear upper mounts in the front would probably...

So lowering springs suck. Rates are all over the place, the balance is usually off, most are progressive and who knows what the actual rates are for them. That doesn't mean that someone should post a link to the rates post in the suspension section, it means that no one knows what the force...

EDFC is not the same as TEMS. TEMS is a whole system that will adjust the dampers based on vehicle speed, steering and braking inputs. It's actually a pretty decent system, especially for the time. EDFC is just in car adjustment for the dampers. It doesn't monitor anything or adjust...

You can run tems shocks without the actuator. Just make sure they're adjusted properly. They should hold adjustment, but I would at least check every once in a while to make sure they didn't move.

Why not anything but Tein? I mean Tein may be a small step above Megan and Ksport and such, but it's nothing to really brag about. The best crappy coilovers are still crappy coilovers. But if that's what you want, then just save up for that. And since you're going to save up for that...

It seems like a lot of people run stock springs and shocks for drag racing, whether this is just because it's a cheap option or because there isn't anything better, I don't really know. A good setup could be put together for drag racing, but I don't know of anything off the shelf for this...

The alignment would depend on a lot of things. How stiff is your suspension, how much power you are putting down, how much the car weighs, etc. Also, without aftermarket suspension arms, it might be hard to get everything exactly how you want. I would get it on the rack and see what you...

If you're getting that much play, I hope you fixed that problem by now. But it all depends on what you want to spend. There are aftermarket arms that you can buy, you can get new bushings for the arm, you can pick up a used arm with bushings that aren't blown. It depends on how much you...

I would suggest some type of coilovers at least. I would hate to see another person try and run lowering springs and think that it's a track car. Now obviously, I would suggest my coilovers if you really wanted to best for the price. But there are off the shelf asian coilovers that might...

Like I said on the notes on there, I don't know how accurate most of the MK4 stuff is. I only tested stock and some version of the TRD bars, the ones that I got from Dan Cord. The rest were estimates based off the numbers published on Titan's site. But the Mk3 stuff was all actually...

But he said he wanted an agressive setup and didn't mind rolling/pulling and doing what he needed to fit the wheels. I would say 9.5 all around. With +15, you will need to run a smaller tire, you could probably squeeze a 245 in there and not have much trouble fitting everything. But if...

Ride quality has little to do with sway bars except for one wheel bump type stuff. But for general pitch and heave stuff, as long as your d-blocks aren't creating too much friction, the sway bar won't contribute much of anything to ride. Otherwise it wouldn't be doing it's job properly...

What are you saying isn't possible? Having a car low but still having suspension travel? It is possible, when you stiffen the springs, you don't use as much travel as you would need stock, so you can go lower and still have more than enough travel. But don't take that as me not agreeing...

255 is way too wide for a 7.5 if you want the car to feel like anything other than mush while you're driving. Either get wider wheels or deal with the fact that you have skinny wheels and can't fit a big tire.

It's just a big claim to say your car is that light. That's why I want some proof, like get it on some corner scales and take a picture or something like that. If you're just basing this off a scale at the drag strip or truck stop or whatever like that, those things are always off. I've...

2640 in an MK3? I don't believe it. Not in an I'm in disbelief way, but in a way that I think you're wrong or lying. If it's really true, I need to see some kind of proof. But there's no way just removing stuff will get you that light.

And those tech tips are good, but they're still pretty basic in terms of what needs to be done. It's not the calculations that are the hard part, it's knowing what numbers you would want to see. I mean there are guidelines for different types of setups, but they're just guidelines and there's...