I am going to start upgrading the suspesion on my car..(finally) i quick question for all of the supsension experts,

is there any sort of system to upgrading, i have the list of iteams that i have put together from this board (thanks so much to everyone who posts) but here is what i need to know, get ALL of the parts together first, and then put them all on at once, or should i just put parts on the car, as i get them?

 

That's usually a matter of whether you have the cash to buy everything at once or bit by bit. It would save time and money to install a new center link, outer tie rod ends and struts at the same time because you need to get an alignment done after doing any of those things. If you can, it's probably better to do everything at once because then you will have it done and aligned correctly.

 

if money isn't an issue and you can afford to have the car sit for a while i'd do it all at once. there will be several things you'll have to bolt and unbolt over and over if you do it one at a time, depending on how far you want to go with your up grades.

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ICON Motorsports

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i am going to be geting SFC, LCA, Swaybars, panhard rod, wonderbar, lowering springs and shocks.

i will have enough for everything but the shocks at once, or i can get the shocks, and leave a couple other things off.

what my question was, was if i put SFC, LCA(and brackets), Panhard and the srpings on, by upgrading that first, and then 1 month later puting the rest on, if i am going to be putting too much stress on the old parts, (sway par, panhard) from stiffinging up everything else?

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Why don't you save on the LCA's by boxing your own and buy the shocks?

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Matt86Z
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I know one pain in the butt with doing it all at once is: You'll never know how much one thing helped. I did that when I "finished" my Firebird; I put on all the performance stuff at once. Someone asks me how much my chip helped- and I don't know. They ask me how much the high-flow cat helped- and I don't know. etc, etc... I know the car was better overall, but I couldn't test each part.


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