Just watched the first video and thought "bad tune or not, that car doesnt sound like its firing on all cylinders". Glad you got it sorted out!
Just watched the first video and thought "bad tune or not, that car doesnt sound like its firing on all cylinders". Glad you got it sorted out!
Can't wait to see what kind of times it runs. High compression is the way to go with e85 on these cars, I can only imagine the extra grunt and crispness to be had especially with a pd blower. The tubular front end is soo tempting with the weight savings but I'm reminded of my old 95 gt with coil overs, too many noises for me.
The coil over noises are killing me. I wonder what exactly makes all the noise. I wouldn't mind trying to get bushings in somewhere or something to smooth out the noises. Makes the car sound like a cheap ol piece of junk with worn out shocks or something.
It's all that mass now hanging off the shock towers which now includes the engine, K-member and 1/2 the weight of the tranny. Lots of movement taking place there. I would consider going back to the stock spring set-up that cantilevers off the K-member the metal fatigue with the coilovers will only get worse.
I had finished the other half of my shock tower reinforcement post on Saturday. When I went to submit the post the cache on Mozilla timed-out on me and I lost the whole thing :cuss: Now I have to re-write it all over again :cryying:
Malcolm, if I remember right the Steeda K member has spring perches. Try that one! I want to see your car soon haha, so glad to see it back alive!
That's a great point. I just went back and looked at my old setup. The springs held the weight of the car at the point where the k-member attached to the sub frame. Now the weight of the car is been held in the shock towers. Completely different and probably the issue.
I wonder if there's a way to have a stock style spring setup and keep the tubular light weight k-member? I'll have to look into it (IE go browse the vendors to spend more money lol). Adding a few pounds back to smooth out the noises and ride would be worth it to me.
BTW Russ if I may suggest. When you make a large post before you hit submit copy and paste the post into TextEdit or Notepad etc. then if your browser craps out or SVTP is offline no worries. Refresh your browser etc. and get that resolved then simply copy/paste back from your text editor and magic
What kind of lca bushings are you running? Could they be making the noise you are hearing?
While the factory unit is on the heavy side I'll take the 25 lb. hit
GREAT THREAD.... That's awesome your boy jumped in and wanted to work on the cobra with you.... :rockon:
I can't even tell you how not in the mood I am to swap k-members again lol but cool man. I'll do some digging around.
It's what came with the kit. It seemed like a very hard urethane. I don't think that's the noise. To me it seems the noise is not really from any one part but rather just the car / dash etc. been shook in a way it's not supposed to. Like if you drive in a car with worn shocks you hear all kinds of noses when you hit bumps, metal creaks, dash vibrations etc. It's like that.
Went for a ride today, windows down, loud exhaust didn't notice it at all. When I drive a little more normal and windows up it's very ...
The reason I ask is Bruce at FTBR recommends grease fittings on lcas with delrin (hard) bushings as they will squeak. I didn't see the fittings in your pics. I was hoping it was as simple as that. Sucks that it's coming from a number of locations. I really hate rattles, creaks and squeeks.
Actually it was a 70 lb difference. Not to be over looked on such a nose heavy car. I did some looking and UPR has spring perches for $40. They use the same two bolts on each side that hold the k-member to the body. Think I need to order those. I don't see any a-arms with spring perches so will probably have to put the stock a-arms back on with the factory coil springs. It'll add some weight back but it'll suspend the car from the correct spot and if it fixes the dash noises over bumps bonus.