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Chris, that may be true sometimes for a street car. But on cars that are a little more serious, I like to use the sway bars only to add a little of the roll stiffness and are actually more important for tuning the balance than adding roll rate. But on a street car, if you don't want to run...

External reservoirs are common on higher end setups. On those, I don't think they're doing the same thing. That looks like it is just extra space for nitrogen. On better reservoirs, they usually house an additional valve that can be used to adjust damping. Usually it is just compression...

So this thread was long. And I actually read everything. And it was really just about strut tower bars. I don't get it. Supras don't have struts, so they don't have strut towers, so there's no where to attach a strut tower bar. They have shocks and shock towers and shocks have nothing...

But you can call up Discount tire and tell them what sizes you want. It may not be one of their preset packages or whatever that is. But you can get better sizes and a better setup. It may be a couple dollars more, but it's more than worth it. Or you could be super cheap, buy a prepackaged...

What do you mean a combo? Are you just planning on buying really cheap wheels off of ebay? You can order different sizes and pretty much whatever you want if you go through a good company to get the wheels. You don't have to be stuck with some stupid stagger that people think is right.

Can't you get a new set of those for like $500 in sizes that you want? Or probably even cheaper?

Do you plan on turning? Or are you going to squeeze some big rubber on those skinny front wheels? Why an 8" wheel in the front if you're going to run 285's in the back? If it's just a drag car, then I guess it wouldn't be bad, but even for street driving, it will look dumb and handle worse...

Front is 4.125" Rear is 7.1875" Measured off of Bilstein OE replacement dampers.

I think front is around 4", rear is around 6". Something like that. I have shocks here I can measure, I just don't have a tape measure next to me right now. I'll get you more accurate numbers later tonight. Tim

Where the springs measured correctly? I'm not doubting you, I'm just curious. Because the way the OE springs are shaped and mounted, you have to account for the dead ends at each end of the spring. The way I would test would to have the springs mounted on a stock damper. And then do the test...

The bilsteins are not externally adjustable for valving, but you can adjust the height. You will not be able to drop the car 2-3" on those without running much stiffer rates or you will risk bottoming out the shock under normal cornering. You can do a lot with the setup you have. If you...

You do not need a kinematics program to see that the suspension pivots do not maintain a constant axis throughout travel. All you need to do is look at the geometry and you will see it. If that is not enough, then unbolt the shock and move the suspension through it's travel with a jack...

Why are you having so much trouble believing that the stock springs are around 460lb/in?

Chris, you know how I feel about delrin used for bushings like that. I don't think it's a good idea. Maybe IJ will chime in about why he didn't want poly back there. The only reason I could think of is that it's too stiff and causes bind, but if poly would do that, then delrin would be...

It's says FRP next to each of the fenders.

A1 did not copy anything. One of my good friends actually designed those arms a few years back for another friend's supra. He just designed them to work the way they needed to. There's only so many ways you can make a suspension arm. Tube with right and left hand threads, rod end/bushing on...

Well good job believing everything you read on the internet. Rubber bushings, operating exactly as they said in that link, will add affect the suspension. They add both spring rate and damping into the equation. Which is nonlinear and hard to account for without complex models. They do...

Stock is 459.2 lbf/in Front/212.8 lbf/in Rear. RSR stuff should be listed on their website.

Send him steering rack bushings as well. It will probably be the only place I will be using poly and it would be nice to have available.

No you won't. It depends on a lot of things.