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PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 6:15 pm 
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ok this is what the silver car has/ will get fromt he GTX

34mm front solid Dorman bar (same as the SLP bar on the GTX)
25mm rear sold SLP bar (from the GTX)
front and rear strut tower braces with done rome brackets

any other things i can do to improve it? as it is with the stiff rear i could get the black car to kick out and over steer

not looking to lower the car it will be a winter bomber and low is no go here. eather going to get rear trailing arms from a impala or LS4 car in the junk yard or just box in the ones on the car. any other ideas? the car needs struts any way thinking of getting regal or intriuge rear springs (higher spring rate and progressive no saggy ass)

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 6:39 pm 
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Heavy duty rear trailing arms will work nicely with the mods you have.

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 6:47 pm 
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Where can you get some?

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 7:41 pm 
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BMR sells them on ebay. or on the LS4 v8 cars and 9c1 impalas

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 7:54 pm 
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UMI also sells rear trailing arms for the w-body. You should be good to go with those suspension upgrades.

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Or if you want to go the cheap route, get the Doorman trailing arms from RockAuto. They are the same boxed ones that WBS sells, but for half the price of WBS.

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 10:18 pm 
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but the dorman ones are a small diameter tube that is not much stonger then the stock "U" shaped arms

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They are a solid square arm. I'm sure they are stronger than the stock stamped crap.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 2:14 am 
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they changed then becuase they use to be small hollow round bar

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Don_Rome wrote:
Heavy duty rear trailing arms will work nicely with the mods you have.


^ This. : P

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http://www.umiperformance.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=9_119&products_id=293

Any other places little cheaper than those.

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02gpgtguy wrote:



I have the UMI s and they are nice.....even have a nice grease fitting on them.

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Some input if I may! get the GMPP 34mm & 19mm sway bars. you don't want or need the 25mm. You need to change the links, which make the bars work, that's where the weakness is (see pics). Make the links short and beefy, center section of the front kink needs to be metal I.E. (SS, aluminum, steel). Get the BMR traction/lateral bar kit. Gusset the rear carrier (pic). NAPA's high end bearing hups. With your new struts: GM front springs # 22133030, GM rear spring's #10258880. Additionally you should replace the front A-arms. The stut tower braces as you mentioned are a must & if & when you can at least replace the heavy (56lbs) up front battery with an Odyessy (24lbs) pc925L, this will remove in excess of 100lbs of the frontend. Last but not least never run less than 37 psi in your tires, no matter what kind, (other than snows) & lower psi may be required in snowy condition with regular tires. There are additional things, but these will give you a FWD car that will handle like you haven't driven before.


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PostPosted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 2:09 pm 
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i may not need the 25mm bar but i all ready have the 25mm bar. it was put on the GTX by SLP back in 03 so it is not costing me any thing

i also all ready have the matching 35mm front bar also on the GTX.


but thanks for that info. not going crazy the car will proably never see a track but i like the sway bar end links you did :cool:

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