Awesome video, thanks for all you've done. And all others as well.
"Shop Dog" is the most important part! ??
I see your Steeda rear sway bar is on the lightest setting. I think I will keep mine on the heaviest setting. Seems like I remember you mentioned something about that in a previous post.
Yeah, I noticed that too (and that it appears they were previously set at the medium setting)...
That could work, but really it’s only ‘hard’ when you’re holding a phone and talking while doing it.
It’s the lateral movement of the bar. Still looking for a rubber ring to slip in there to try to quiet it down. Steeda never responded to my mails.
I seem to remember you mentioning the change a while backWhen I put the first set of QA1’s on the middle setting seemed to make the rebound a little stiffer. I was getting a lot of noise from what I thought was the bar bushings. Turns out it was the shock bushings. That said I have both sets of bars on the lightest. The car is flat in corners and just a touch of wobble when going into my neighborhood, which has this stupid drain thing built into the street, at a 20 degree angle. It sends my RH into a conniption fit wobbling. It was just a bit too harsh for something I have to drive 4 times a day usually. I like where it’s at now for pretty much everything. On the middle it was translating vibrations from one tire to the other. It’s slightly disconnected now. Not as loud when hitting a crappy man hole cover that is 2 inches sunk into asphalt. I might continue to fight the hood fight with the Viking/QA1’s but I’d have to swap the top mounts around as well, so if I did that I’d try changing the oil and valves if I could. Setting the bar light was a last ditch effort to shut up the amount of noise I was getting. And while it changed how much and how loud it didn’t solve it. The Koni’s did because of the rubber bushing on the bottom mount.
I do however still get noise from the bar bushings when hitting something big, or every time I pull in or out of my driveway.
Hey thanks for the great video! What tire pressure do you usually run with on your car? Just checking because my GT felt unusually bouncy recently so I realized that it got much warmer out and thus my tire pressure was showing 42-43 at rest which was much lower a month back during winter. I reduced it to 38 all around and the ride became much much better and mellow. Honestly, hardly even noticed the bounciness after that. It is still stiff but I don't get bounced around over every other imperfection.
Everyone that was testing ran different tire pressures while testing. I know Erik tried different pressures to see how it would react and I'm sure he will comment.
thanks.. I am getting tired for my head getting bounced of my head rest...
Hi Chris, All I use are cordless tools and yes a cordless drill is fine. The issue is the drill bit being used. The metal you are drilling in that upper mount is fairly hard steel and somewhat thick so you need a very good drill bit. The upper mount on the OEM GT shock has a larger hole than the one on the non-GT shock so with a good bit you can just drill it out. Upper mounts on non GT shocks have a smaller hole and would be best to start with a 7/16" drill bit then move up to 1/2".
