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.

Thanks

 

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.

 

Thanks.

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.

 

Lakewoods seem like they are best for drag but I'd say MM for all-around use.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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?).

 

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.

 

you should upgrade your control arms if you plan on driving it faster than the average secretary would. Stock suspension is t3h suckz0r