Flybiyou
20+ Year Contributor
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- Apr 8, 2003
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somewhere,
Illinois
Hello everyone. I had a 98 gst that I sold 8 yrs ago when I got married. Owned it for 6yrs Miss that car but the wife let me buy another one. I just picked up a 97 gst that is stock except a few small bolt ons. It has 145,000 miles on it but the motor is strong and the previous owners kept all receipts for everything oil changes to repairs. I am going to revive this car and first step is making sure the suspension and steering is up to streetable safe par. Especially since the last owner slammed the car 3" on unknown springs and autozone shocks.
So I was looking at replacing every front and rear control arms uppers- lowers- trailing arms and hub assembles- tie rods and all new bolts and hardware. I am buying the front knuckles as well due to I remember my last 2g axels froze in the hubs. This way I can band saw the knuckles and hub assembles if need be to free axels. I also am going to by Koni yellow struts and the Eibach Prokit 1.2" drop to replace the horrible set on there now.
Anyways to my question. I was also going to buy the Prothane Total kit and replace not all but some of the bushings to get some more stability. Especially the rear knuckle upper bushing since it is smashed at the moment.
What bushings out of the kit would you recommend to use? It will be a weekend fun driver only not a DD.
Also I'm using all oem parts for the control arms tie rods etc etc. With the Prothane kit- Konis struts and lowering Springs I'm looking at $3300.00. Cheapest I could find online for oem parts was $2440.00 Anyone got any ideas to save some cash on this revive?
And b4 anyone brings up spend money else where I'm also doing the timing belt with water pump and clutch during all this to refresh everything mechanical. Which puts me at $4300.00 . I forgot how expensive this hobby was. I haven't even touched looking for supporting mods for future turbo upgrade.
Thanks in advance
So I was looking at replacing every front and rear control arms uppers- lowers- trailing arms and hub assembles- tie rods and all new bolts and hardware. I am buying the front knuckles as well due to I remember my last 2g axels froze in the hubs. This way I can band saw the knuckles and hub assembles if need be to free axels. I also am going to by Koni yellow struts and the Eibach Prokit 1.2" drop to replace the horrible set on there now.
Anyways to my question. I was also going to buy the Prothane Total kit and replace not all but some of the bushings to get some more stability. Especially the rear knuckle upper bushing since it is smashed at the moment.
What bushings out of the kit would you recommend to use? It will be a weekend fun driver only not a DD.
Also I'm using all oem parts for the control arms tie rods etc etc. With the Prothane kit- Konis struts and lowering Springs I'm looking at $3300.00. Cheapest I could find online for oem parts was $2440.00 Anyone got any ideas to save some cash on this revive?
And b4 anyone brings up spend money else where I'm also doing the timing belt with water pump and clutch during all this to refresh everything mechanical. Which puts me at $4300.00 . I forgot how expensive this hobby was. I haven't even touched looking for supporting mods for future turbo upgrade.
Thanks in advance
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