Best Aftermarket Suspension Set-up
finally someone admits that the price difference is not much if at all.. all the years of guys saying that a tb suspension was so much cheaper. it just isn't.
imagine that. i've been saying that the tb and full r&p systems are much closer then most will admit for years now. glad to someone actually typed this..
not to me.. if i'm already at 4K with either system 900 bucks isn't making or breaking the sale. i'll just save a bit longer or sell something for such a small difference.
for me i'd run a manual rack well before a manual box. had them both over the years and prefer the rack over a manual box. in reality though i'm going power steering either with a rack or borgenson box. just nicer and more comfortable driving in my opinion..
Well, I’m one of those guys that has said the torsion bar suspension is substantially less expensive. And
20% less is still substantially cheaper in my book for the manual to manual comparison. $900 is a chunk of change for most folks. So yeah, I’m gonna keep saying it’s substantially cheaper, and posting exactly the break down of what I mean.
The other thing is that in the name of making it across the board a bolt on operation with like to like parts, a substantial amount of savings is missed with the torsion bar suspension. Another $480 shows up in your pocket if you just use the stock LCA’s with reinforcing plates. If you’ve already got 73+ spindles you save another $175. Suddenly you’ve spent $1,500 less, and those aren’t even options for the coil over conversion. Engine mounts are ok? Or maybe you just need a poly insert at $56 instead of $229.
I mean if you’ve got a 73+ disk car and can weld on LCA reinforcing plates and use your factory engine mounts with new poly bushings and your 73+ spindles you’ve saved over $800 vs the list. So that’s $1,700 less overall for manual to manual, and you could knock that entire $800 off a power to power comparison as well, which would make that $1k in savings vs the conversion. And those aren’t options for saving on the coil over conversions.
It’s also worth mentioning that both the RMS and the QA1 coil over conversions (w/ sway bar + engine mounts) are more expensive than the HDK by several hundred dollars. And neither has a manual rack option, so you’d have to buy the package, sell the power rack, and buy a manual rack, adding to the cost further.