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Originally Posted by chanomatik
That's the way to do it. So many people just throw EVERYTHING on the car as soon as possible, never quite learning it or appreciating each piece purchased. I've always been leery of the idea of purchasing a bunch of suspension parts all at once and installing them. I've always wanted to just piece it out by installing and playing with it for a couple hundred miles at least before doing the next piece.
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“On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'Okay, this is the limit'. And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.” -Ayrton Senna
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I don't aspire to be a professional racing driver, but I've always enjoyed that quote from the best of all time. The experience part is what I'm working on right now. I want to be 100% comfortable at the limit of this car to the point where I'm consistent within a couple seconds on track. Suspension/brakes are ALWAYS first before big jumps in power and I've learned that my choices in those two areas will have the greatest impact to how the car will respond on track with more power.
I want to use the track time I'm getting wisely and really get the car behaving just the way I want it, knowing in the back of my mind that more power through FI is possible.
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Originally Posted by chanomatik
Unfortunately it costs money to have parts purchased and installed or you need the time/opportunity to learn to install them yourself. I've swapped coil overs several times on other Subies, so I'm thinking I could do that, but I just don't know about control and trailing arms and such. Those seem like a PITA to install.
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Rear upper control arms are a PITA, the rest aren't too bad. As with most suspension parts, high torque values are involved. Having the right tools at your disposal make all the difference between a PITA install and an easy breezy one.