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Made a Tennessee Run Sunday

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FormTA:
I have mostly PTFB suspension.  I have the GT rear springs and even on their highest setting they are a bit low for me. I made new shackles to raise it a bit. I think the solid body mounts made the car much better but I also installed his subframe connectors. Either way I don't feel the ride is too harsh because of those things. I believe my little harshness I feel is from my cheap shocks. Mt fron seems fine, it's the rear for me that seems a bit stiff. One day I will replace my rear shocks and hopefully that will help. I do understand that the GT springs and 17" rims help give that stiffer feeling and are doing what they are supposed to do. My car corners like it's on rails.  I have given rides to some buddies who are into BMW twin turbo cars and they were really impressed with how my car takes a corner and sticks to the road ( unless I light em up and kick it sideways 😀 ). So two thumbs up from me on PTFB stuff.

rkellerjr:
I have the same but slightly different setup as FormTA. I bough the GT suspension kit from Pro-Touring as well as solid body bushings. I did NOT like the rear being that low as it would hit the bump stops every time I went over a bump. I tried different shackles but they didn't help so I replaced the GT rear springs with stock springs. The car has a slight rake now which looks good and it handles crazy good. I did add sub frame connectors as well. After burning out a set of stock shocks on Tail of the Dragon I went with Koni classic shocks. Car rides great just cruisin but handles like a Formula 1 car ... well, not really, but, it handles well. I think you'll like the suspension change.

kentucky yeti:
The usual mission creep set in.  I made another run to PTFB and picked up tubular uppers and the PTFB (longer) ball joints, as well as built lower arms.  Add those to the solid body bushings, the new front coils, the rear springs, and the Koni shocks- and I am pleased with the results.  Of course, it has a trip this week to be aligned, so it hasn't had a road run yet.  Oh yeah- the gas tank had top drop to get the bolts out of the rear springs.  That led to buying new tank straps (just because- no real reason).  The tank looked great inside and out.  When we fired it up, I had a gas leak.  One of the sender unit lines had cracked upon reinstallation.  I could have spliced it with a rubber fuel line (they did that from the factory to join lines) but...  What the heck.  So, while ordering a new sender, I also ordered a new tank.  If anyone needs a nice original tank, or lower arms, or upper arms, or a new set of upper ball joints that I ordered from RockAuto before going with PTFB longer ones...  I have a lot of stuff to get rid of LOL

stros:
Very cool.  I also have the PTFB GT suspension but the one item I didn’t get were
the control arms.  I’m curious how much difference they make over the stock ones.

Wallington:
 I wonder if PTFB Dave can provide some updates since he's a 'sponsor' and keeps getting free plugs.

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