Quad Shocks

[Zinc03GT]

Okay, I did a search and found a couple opinions, but I'm hoping to get a larger pool of opinions to help me out. My buddy installed Steeda Aluminum (non-adjustable) LCAs. He was hoping to get rid of a noise on the rear right of the car. The noise is still there, and he saw that the quad-shock should be replaced. I told him I remembered reading that the quad shocks on our cars can be removed after installing LCAs. Is this correct? Any drawbacks (like wheel hop)? Thanks for any help.

 

[JonJon]

That's what I read as well. The quad shocks are only needed with the stock junk LCA's. If you have aftermarket LCA's you can remove the quads. I'm going to take them off next time I have the car on jacks.

 

[darkstar]

that is true, with LCAs they are not needed

 

[Ryan02Stang]

Ditch the quad shocks...with a good LCA they are absolutely worthless

 

[Zinc03GT]

Thanks for the input. He was thinking he needed something else before he could dump them, but I was sure I had read that LCAs were all he needed.

 

[DTMach1]

well they are supposed to prevent a certain amount of axle bind...I wouldn't suggest removing them unless you got a set of adj. upper control arms.

What you can do is a simple road test. Remove the quad shocks and drive the car around with "spirited" intentions. If the car feels better (ie no axle hop) and has less road noise then leave them off and you should be fine.

If its worse then simply reinstall them...they're not that difficult so this shouldn't be to hard to do yourself.