1g suspension advice

[Johng322]

I am putting together the suspension setup for my car and would love any opinions/advice. My car is going to be a daily driver with a couple of open track days a year.

To start I purchased the energy suspension bushing kit. To that I am adding the Whiteline front 22mm and rear 26 mm adjustable swaybar. For the shock I am running koni's all around with ground control sleeves. I will also be using the rre upper plates with added caster and the camber adjustment and installing the active toe eliminator kit by jay's racing. Is there anything I am missing? Should I look into rear subframe bushings while I am doing everthing else?

Also what would be an appropriate drop all around for this car? I don't want to go so low that i will actually be hurting handling. With the proper amount of lowering would I need to add a rear camber kit or will it not pull the camber too far negative? Thanks in advance for any advice.

 

[wrencher]

I have modified quite a few different vehicles for track use.
I found the best method is to go slow with handling mods.
Meaning one step @ a time.
Seems to wok out the best, to take the car from a baseline drive to the edge & imodify from that point.

Sometimes mods just dont work well in the road race department, hard to get that figured out if you do a lot at once.

The bushings should be a good mod might want to start there & do some local auto X & get the car's characteristics down.
That will give you the best feedback if the mods match your driving style & improve the car.

There is not ton of suspension travel as is so dropping it a lot will not help.

 

[myfirstgsx]

most guys do a 2 inch drop all the way around with no negative affects

 

[leepen]

most guys do a 2 inch drop all the way around with no negative affects

not sure that is accurate..1.5 no effect

 

[dmock]

hey when i bought my car a couple years ago (90 tsi awd) the guy gave me an energy suspension bushing kit with it.. how hard is it to put in? ill have plenty of time so ill be able to figure it out but i guess what i need to know is if ill need any special tools? all i have is pretty basic stuff right now thanks

 

[Chill Kill Kult]

hey when i bought my car a couple years ago (90 tsi awd) the guy gave me an energy suspension bushing kit with it.. how hard is it to put in? ill have plenty of time so ill be able to figure it out but i guess what i need to know is if ill need any special tools? all i have is pretty basic stuff right now thanks

sometimes tough. If all you have is basic hand tools it might be over your head. At the very least you need a bench vice or a dangerous contraption to press the new bushings in. By dangerous I mean something like a C clamp with a breaker bar or something that can surely cause pain when it slips. As for removing the old ones you can get pretty far with a big hammer and a chisel, but there are easier ways.