I am thinking about buying a the Roush Suspension kit (not the track pack one). I am wondering if anyone has it on their car and if you like it. Also, it lowers only one inch. Do I need an adjustable panhard bar, bump steer kit, and/or camber/caster kits? Or is it a bolt on and go. I am not planning on doing any racing, other then an occational autocross. Looking to lower it a bit and increase the cornering a little. I miss the handling of the Audi S4 I had before. Also, my car is a stock GT convertible.
I do not want to piece out all the suspension stuff seperately. I would prefer a kit and have always had good luck with Roush stuff even though its not the cheapest.
ORIGINAL: shelby69 I am thinking about buying a the Roush Suspension kit (not the track pack one). I am wondering if anyone has it on their car and if you like it. Also, it lowers only one inch. Do I need an adjustable panhard bar, bump steer kit, and/or camber/caster kits? Or is it a bolt on and go. I am not planning on doing any racing, other then an occational autocross. Looking to lower it a bit and increase the cornering a little. I miss the handling of the Audi S4 I had before. Also, my car is a stock GT convertible.
I do not want to piece out all the suspension stuff seperately. I would prefer a kit and have always had good luck with Roush stuff even though its not the cheapest.
Thanks for the help.
Hi shelby69,
Pass on the Roush S197 suspension you can easily do better on your own or by following one of my simple recipies for S197 handling success. First off you need to relaize that with a convertable you have a chassis that will never be an effective platform for a truely high-performance suspension and that what you should buy and install for your car largely depends on what you want to do with your car, where you live, what your roads are like etc. Your S197 is not very stiff with the roof cut off so one of the best things you can do is to improve your chassis stiffness. To do this you need an effective strut tie bar (Agent 47 is the only decent STB on the market) and a set of the stiffest subframe connectors welded into the chassis which are BMR's rectangle tubed heavy duty subframe braces. You will need to modify the BMR brace slightly due to the verts rear braces but the shop welding them in will see the changes needed. Then add a moderate rate Sport spring with a moderate ride height and adjustable dampers (D-Specs will work better in this application) and improve your rear axle location with an adjustable Panard bar and HD Panhard bar brace and a set of GT500 LCA's. then just install a good set of performance tires and do the usual brake upgrades (pads, racing fluid, S.S. brake lines, brake cooling ducts) and stop right here, you are done as the vert's chassis is the limiting factor. If you had a coupe that S4 would be looking at your tail lights as you pulled away from him in the twisty bits. Settle for keeping him in sight and enjoy the sunshine.
HTH!
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