TRD=STIFFER? Thesis on TORSION? ...crispaloney?

[crispone]

TRD brace (front) and rear swaybars are tracking for delivery TODAY!

Full review of my experience pending.....

heh, heh, heh.....


- crisp

[PXLpainter]

^^ Ha! ...and you thought the CP-e performance diff was amazing... just wait!!

[gnegroni]

I want a RSB for x-mas!!! Too bad I will spend the money drinking and making my insurance payment.

[PXLpainter]

Hey Crispy Critter - where's that report that was pending...???

[crispone]

Hey Crispy Critter - where's that report that was pending...???

PART 1: (Front Tower Strut Brace - reprise)

....pulling into the drive, I can make out a longish cardboard box.... the TRD Rear Sway Bar and Front Tower Strut Brace, no doubt!

I slip into the house for a few minutes, playing it off like my family is my only focus in life.... for about 7 minutes, anyway.... after mumbling something about taking out the garbage to my wife, I slip back out and check out the BRIGHT RED powder coated bracing pieces... hmmmm... a glance under the rear linkage, and I can see that part will take a few minutes... so I grab a socket and Tower Strut Brace, and pop the hood.

10 minutes later, and the brace is in!

I pop back into the house, and mumble something about running to the local drive-thru... stopping to gaze under the hood by light of my mercury garage lamp, and then drop the lid with a grin, as I prepare to go thrash the chassis around for a few miles...

Upon transit out onto the road, several hundred yards up the way I cross the Ottawa River, and the barump....barump.... over the two seams sends back an immediate notion of rigidity improvement by way of a front end that is now "locked-in". Diving into the first swing-back right, I push the front into the apex and feel the reduced flex that previously haunted the front end under pressure. A quick run through the gears, and a detour out past the old steel over-hung girder truss bridge, and I wind it through second as the only local segment of quick handling reference comes up in a rush, my own personal chicane.... CP-e intake howling like a turbocharged shop-vac on steroids, the dynamic transitioning of point of load and inertia diversion plays the tune of a newfound melody rich with metaphorical handling rock after plushy pop had settled it's habit on my prior driving experience. After each brief stop, I found myself launching as hard as I could... from a dead-nuts-on aligned pull.... to a slight off angle punch.... and even half-lock turning launches, which twisted BOTH tires loose throught the balance of first and grabbed first traction slipping it's way through the clutch packs into second....

Car definitely leaves the line more constently with reduced torque steer and wheel hop, has a much firmer and noticably more rigid demeanor at high speeds, and braces the whole front end with greater authority than the rolled flatstock of the OEM bridge....

PART 2: (Rear Sway Bar) PENDING.... (gotta get a beer...)


-crisp

[Biggi_e]

haha i love the way you write your entries! great stuff

[PXLpainter]

Okay - Part 2 will blow your mind man! Just make sure you use the inside setting!

[Down2TheC]

Find a good cloverleaf to play on.

[crispone]

Okay - Part 2 will blow your mind man! Just make sure you use the inside setting!

Yup, yup.... BOTH have been on for weeks now.... it took YOUR prodding to complete the post tease from before I made the mods! (Beer brought along Sandman last night before I could complete the review with RSB... I'll get there!)


-crisp

[Down2TheC]

Maybe just post your review onto the Tutorial where folks of the future will find it. Then you can add any comments/lessons learned. Just a thought.

[PXLpainter]

^^ Nah - tutorials should be more pictures than words... and we all know that CRISP is a Man of FEW WORDS! LOL!!!

[crispone]

^^ Nah - tutorials should be more pictures than words... and we all know that CRISP is a Man of FEW WORDS! LOL!!!

werd



-crisp

[**PoshPepper**]

^^ Nah - tutorials should be more pictures than words... and we all know that CRISP is a Man of FEW WORDS! LOL!!!

werd



-crisp

Oh how appropriate...

[crispone]

Hey Crispy Critter - where's that report that was pending...???

PART 1: (Front Tower Strut Brace - reprise)

....pulling into the drive, I can make out a longish cardboard box.... the TRD Rear Sway Bar and Front Tower Strut Brace, no doubt!

I slip into the house for a few minutes, playing it off like my family is my only focus in life.... for about 7 minutes, anyway.... after mumbling something about taking out the garbage to my wife, I slip back out and check out the BRIGHT RED powder coated bracing pieces... hmmmm... a glance under the rear linkage, and I can see that part will take a few minutes... so I grab a socket and Tower Strut Brace, and pop the hood.

10 minutes later, and the brace is in!

I pop back into the house, and mumble something about running to the local drive-thru... stopping to gaze under the hood by light of my mercury garage lamp, and then drop the lid with a grin, as I prepare to go thrash the chassis around for a few miles...

Upon transit out onto the road, several hundred yards up the way I cross the Ottawa River, and the barump....barump.... over the two seams sends back an immediate notion of rigidity improvement by way of a front end that is now "locked-in". Diving into the first swing-back right, I push the front into the apex and feel the reduced flex that previously haunted the front end under pressure. A quick run through the gears, and a detour out past the old steel over-hung girder truss bridge, and I wind it through second as the only local segment of quick handling reference comes up in a rush, my own personal chicane.... CP-e intake howling like a turbocharged shop-vac on steroids, the dynamic transitioning of point of load and inertia diversion plays the tune of a newfound melody rich with metaphorical handling rock after plushy pop had settled it's habit on my prior driving experience. After each brief stop, I found myself launching as hard as I could... from a dead-nuts-on aligned pull.... to a slight off angle punch.... and even half-lock turning launches, which twisted BOTH tires loose throught the balance of first and grabbed first traction slipping it's way through the clutch packs into second....

Car definitely leaves the line more constently with reduced torque steer and wheel hop, has a much firmer and noticably more rigid demeanor at high speeds, and braces the whole front end with greater authority than the rolled flatstock of the OEM bridge....

PART 2: (Rear Sway Bar) PENDING.... (gotta get a beer...)


-crisp

PART 2:

…so. I start thinkin’ I need to add the RSB as soon as possible, as the FTSB is locking in the front of the chassis beyond the rear’s torsional resistance capability to keep both rear tires in a state of contact equilibrium prerequisite to composed traction… especially under deceleration into a steady radius, decreasing radius, or sudden initiation of turn-in while under pretty good velocital force… needless to say, each magnitude of modification brings with it a modicum of deficiency in some other intrinsically related component of form or function. Sooooo…… come morning and another day at the office, I toss the deliberately contorted extrusion of steel into my ‘laras trunk, and make a call to the local shop in the town where my office is at… and I’ve never gone to these guys, but a life-long local associate assures me they're fair. A quick discussion with some guy named “Pat”, and I’m runnin’ the car out to him at lunch break. Around 2:30, phone rings, and they say it’s good to pick up anytime.

A couple hours later, I have a buddy swing me out to the shop, and when I ask for the damage, the guy says $21.32! “WHAT? You’re kidding…” I think to myself… but I hold my tongue, consider handing him a $10 or $20 tip, but don’t know who actually did the job… so… “Thanks!”, and I’m out the door.

I’m right on the edge of town, so I can’t really get the thing warmed up and put it through some “paces” just yet… but driving away from the shop, I sense the improved “stiffness” provided by the better distributed “sharing” of lateral suspension caused by the improved rigidity and “sprung” counter torsion delivered by the stout spring. Later in the evening, I’m pushing it into the Interstate loop-d-loop on ramp, a nice constant sweeper with two foot concrete wall, with just a touch of a decreasing kink at the exit, which actually makes the apex a trick to nail. I push the car in harder than I’ve ever done at the 25mph entry, and nail it with a swift but steady partial arc to the right laying a perfect line until the post apex kink, where a little push is quickly corrected with an affirming load on the pedal committing to maximum power. Nice. Good behavior on a controlled diversion from the predictable smoothness of a lesser pace, carried out under steady but aggressive intent, and met with a sure-footed assurance that instills broader limits and makes mundane the previously tentative maneuver. After a few weeks with this setup, the above is repeated in various states of driving, and in conditions inclimate alike… and the accolades continue to fall from my face a private grin, my only companion, me faithful steed, de ‘lara.




-crisp

[Sp33d]

dude, you are way too descriptive. i know you like to express yourself, but thats jsut way too much.

-mark