should I upgrade my lower control arms for nitrous use?
Planning my 100 shot nitrous install.........should I upgrade my lower control arms and rear sway bar? Everything is stock except for Bilstein shocks. Just wondering how much wheel hop i'll get? My car is a 99GT.
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You will get a lot of wheel hop, had a lot when stock.
Wheel hop + Traction= Broken axles. Up grade the lowers for sure its a great cheap mod to plant more power and make the car handle better as well. I have lakewood lowers and they are cheap and work great. You can ask Knife13 as we both are on 275 street tires and I pull on him even while spinning the tires because of my better suspension. |
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Should I keep the stock rear sway bar....or upgrade that too? |
Lower control arms would be a great upgrade even if you wern't adding nitrous. I think the stock sway bar will be fine unless you want less understeer.
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Lakewoods seem like they are best for drag but I'd say MM for all-around use.
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Boxed lower control arm's with polyurethane bushing are all the same really. I would get whatever is the cheapest. If you want something better like a weight jacker or aluminum lower control arm then I would worry about who you get it from. Just my opinion of course.
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Yes, but since the arms need to twist, the bushings need to give. I'm sure the Lakewoods have stiff bushings compared to the three-piece ones on the Steeda and Evolution Motorsports or combo poly/spherical on the MM, Evolution, and Global West pieces. For the strip, this means nothing since the axle/body isn't twisting sideways like it would on the road. Again, it all depends on application.
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I bought the MM lower control arms. They didn't come with hardware. Should I reuse the factory bolts or buy new ones(grade 8 or better?).
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You re-use the factory bolts. The stock hardware is just as good as G8 or better. My panhard bar came with a 10.9 bolt, pretty hefty.
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you should upgrade your control arms if you plan on driving it faster than the average secretary would. Stock suspension is t3h suckz0r
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