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Old 02-10-2005, 01:49 AM
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Originally Posted by BonneMeMN
FE2 and F41 are the same except for spring rates. Your swaybar is the best one already, you just need endlinks and the springs.
are FE1 and FE2 the same? I thought I had FE2, but just checked RPO and FE1 it is.
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FE1 is soft,

FE2 has the beefy sways and mid range springs

F41 has the beefy sways, silly springs...

Hans - Stiffening the front end of the car will give it a slight understeer shift, and stiffening the rear will give it more oversteer. Being FWD, and a normal avg joe car, it has lots of understeer built into it. Try swapping out the rear Sway bar first, and do performance endlinks on all 4 wheels. The springs will be good as well.

The front bar is a PITA, it only comes out ONE way, and requires 2 people. Many enthusiasts on other boards just swap out rears because they're easy, and it helps kill understeer more then doing both sways.
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Originally Posted by BonneMeMN
Hans - Stiffening the front end of the car will give it a slight understeer shift, and stiffening the rear will give it more oversteer. Being FWD, and a normal avg joe car, it has lots of understeer built into it. Try swapping out the rear Sway bar first, and do performance endlinks on all 4 wheels. The springs will be good as well.

The front bar is a PITA, it only comes out ONE way, and requires 2 people. Many enthusiasts on other boards just swap out rears because they're easy, and it helps kill understeer more then doing both sways.
Ok thanks a lot, I think I will do what you say and swap out the rear when the endlinks get here. If it is still not enough for my tastes, I will do the springs and front sway.
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oh what I wouldn't give to have a spare set of f41 parts laying around to put on the lesabre. i would take a couple days off of work to do that job!

*sigh*

but i guess it wasn't meant to be...
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*sniff* *sniff*

i needed that moment.

why don't you come up to michigan some time? we've got tons of yards up here with tons of H-bodies laying around in them. although, strangely, the last one I went too, I found only 2 h-bodies. but I guess that'* a good thing, right?
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