- Wed May 13, 2009 3:38 pm
#116622
Alright, so over the last week and a half or so, i got the energy master bushing kit (Black) along with some Brand New Sk2 Sport Shocks, a ghetto e-bay camber kit i bought off of craigslist and a new used Steering rack. So this was my project for the next however long.
i paired the Sk2 sport shocks with the sk2 springs/coilover setup, i got the energy trailing arm bushings along with the master kit. the steering rack was a junkyard special which looked really good.
so in short, i replaced the steering rack, the front and rear bushings, installed the sport shocks/springs and drove it to work. (with the shitty front camber kit installed)
got the car aligned on friday, but here is where its complicated to explain and very hard for me to understand: it seems like the car is sloppy, now yesterday, i re-tightened every bolt i touched in the process to spec, even the shock bolt. I ALSO took off the shitty ebay camber kit, put in the poly bushings in the upper arms and re-installed everything back to stock with some tighter feeling ball joints and didn't influence the camber hardly at all.
the car seems to wander even more now, i kind of have to hold on to the wheel. is this normal for the energy kit, it's really weird feeling like the right and left are moving independently of each other. it does track straight but i guess the feeling is like driving on grooved pavement on the freeway with bad bushings.... did i do something wrong, miss a step or just not get that memo?
to the people who have installed these, how does the car perform before and after? i mean its better in the corners for sure, but just driving in the ruts on the freeway, it's all over the place, i'm out of ideas so anything would help...sorry for long-winded post, i'm sure i skipped something but anything would help, *What would a bad ball joint feel like/act like? that's about the only thing i did not replace....
Thanks,
James
i paired the Sk2 sport shocks with the sk2 springs/coilover setup, i got the energy trailing arm bushings along with the master kit. the steering rack was a junkyard special which looked really good.
so in short, i replaced the steering rack, the front and rear bushings, installed the sport shocks/springs and drove it to work. (with the shitty front camber kit installed)
got the car aligned on friday, but here is where its complicated to explain and very hard for me to understand: it seems like the car is sloppy, now yesterday, i re-tightened every bolt i touched in the process to spec, even the shock bolt. I ALSO took off the shitty ebay camber kit, put in the poly bushings in the upper arms and re-installed everything back to stock with some tighter feeling ball joints and didn't influence the camber hardly at all.
the car seems to wander even more now, i kind of have to hold on to the wheel. is this normal for the energy kit, it's really weird feeling like the right and left are moving independently of each other. it does track straight but i guess the feeling is like driving on grooved pavement on the freeway with bad bushings.... did i do something wrong, miss a step or just not get that memo?
to the people who have installed these, how does the car perform before and after? i mean its better in the corners for sure, but just driving in the ruts on the freeway, it's all over the place, i'm out of ideas so anything would help...sorry for long-winded post, i'm sure i skipped something but anything would help, *What would a bad ball joint feel like/act like? that's about the only thing i did not replace....
Thanks,
James
