MM XD LCA's First impressions

[BooWFO]

Peices look great. welds are clean. Everthing mounted up very easily.
On road. After getting done took the car on a quick test drive on a curvey road.
Cornering - rear wanted to push the frontend HARD, reminded me of driving a 911 porsche, of course I do have 315's in the back and 275's in the front but I never noticed that behavior with the stock lca's.
Highway- Feel the road, also feel any and all vibrations from the suspension and chassis. At 55mph mirrors begin to vibrate can't make out what is in rearview other than something there. Odd thing is around 90 it becomes smooth as glass.

Launching - haven't had it to the track yet, but the first few launches it does hook hard, doesn't get nearly as squirrelly when I hammer into 2nd.

Overall - Unless they greater improve my 60' times at the track I'm going to wish I had went with the hd's.

 

[Torinalth]

XD is for those with slicks and high horsepower... thought i mentioned that in another thread... anyhow.

well, thats about right as far as what i noticed... however i did not get more vibration at all. something else you will notice is when taking turns.. get most of the way through the turn then hammer it before you straiten out and prepare to pull some Gs... the out of a corner exit grip under hard accelleration is really odd feeling.

Torinalth

 

[Dragstr05]

XD is for those with slicks and high horsepower... thought i mentioned that in another thread... anyhow.

well, thats about right as far as what i noticed... however i did not get more vibration at all. something else you will notice is when taking turns.. get most of the way through the turn then hammer it before you straiten out and prepare to pull some Gs... the out of a corner exit grip under hard accelleration is really odd feeling.

Torinalth

Wish my car felt like that, all I get is a ton a body roll. I guess thats what I get for riding on the stock suspension, but that will change.

 

[helty]

fwiw, I went with HD's and didnt notice a difference in my 60' times. In fact, my best 60' was pulled off with my stock LCAs.

That could have been attributed to track prep, or the beat to hell all season Sumitomos I have. Just thought Id throw it out there. I wish I would have went for the XD's.

That said, the quality is top notch.

 

[BooWFO]

XD is for those with slicks and high horsepower... thought i mentioned that in another thread... anyhow.

well, thats about right as far as what i noticed... however i did not get more vibration at all. something else you will notice is when taking turns.. get most of the way through the turn then hammer it before you straiten out and prepare to pull some Gs... the out of a corner exit grip under hard accelleration is really odd feeling.

Torinalth

Ummm I think the 468rwhp and 548ftlbs my car makes qualifies if the launching on et streets and or slicks doesn't.

Yeah reminded me of driving a porsche. Coast in hammer gas and bam your gone. But go in hard on the throttle and think your plowing.

 

[Torinalth]

Ummm I think the 468rwhp and 548ftlbs my car makes qualifies if the launching on et streets and or slicks doesn't.

Yeah reminded me of driving a porsche. Coast in hammer gas and bam your gone. But go in hard on the throttle and think your plowing.

and now i see the reason for the XD....

easy way to beat the plow... throw the car in with a quick countersteer, then over compensation into the corner with a light braking once you overcorrect.. this will invoke lite oversteer that i control with how much throttle i give it. and either bring the back end out if i misjudged the turn, or 4 wheel drift through if i have the room... all depends on how you want to take the turn... takes practice, but best way to beat snowplowing... also, stiffer rear springs/swaybar.

Torinalth

 

[squares98]

"Yeah reminded me of driving a porsche"

"easy way to beat the plow... throw the car in with a quick countersteer, then over compensation into the corner with a light braking once you overcorrect.. this will invoke lite oversteer that i control with how much throttle i give it. and either bring the back end out if i misjudged the turn, or 4 wheel drift through if i have the room... all depends on how you want to take the turn... takes practice, but best way to beat snowplowing... also, stiffer rear springs/swaybar."

Sounds like you need some drivers ed.

 

[Torinalth]

how so?

 

[hognutz]

Peices look great. welds are clean. Everthing mounted up very easily.
On road. After getting done took the car on a quick test drive on a curvey road.
Cornering - rear wanted to push the frontend HARD, reminded me of driving a 911 porsche, of course I do have 315's in the back and 275's in the front but I never noticed that behavior with the stock lca's.
Highway- Feel the road, also feel any and all vibrations from the suspension and chassis. At 55mph mirrors begin to vibrate can't make out what is in rearview other than something there. Odd thing is around 90 it becomes smooth as glass.

Launching - haven't had it to the track yet, but the first few launches it does hook hard, doesn't get nearly as squirrelly when I hammer into 2nd.

Overall - Unless they greater improve my 60' times at the track I'm going to wish I had went with the hd's.

that is odd because my mirror is rock solid. I don't notice that much vibration. maybe a little but nothing crazy. I get a little more road noise. It is more of just a low, slight howling sound. I only hear it mainly if I put the rear seats down. the solid bushins are probably just transmitting the gear howl.

as for the front pushing this is true but in my case it is only because now I can enter corners fast enough to push the front tires rather than just having the rear end slide out like before I put the arms on. IT is funny how if you keep the rear tires in line with the front tires the car is not so loose in the rear.