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Old 06-11-2009, 09:33 PM
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I am looking for some feed back from anyone who has installed Pfadt coil overs on their car. Are you happy with the handling, and the ability to adjust the ride height of your car?
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I am looking for some feed back from anyone who has installed Pfadt coil overs on their car. Are you happy with the handling, and the ability to adjust the ride height of your car?
I love them, handle great and great ride. Very easy to adjust ride height.
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Very well worth the mid, especially on a slammed Vette, now my Vette turns and holds the turns and no more drifting in turns. Got mine set perfect for my driving stiff
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I have a set sitting on my work bench... does that count
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I love them, handle great and great ride. Very easy to adjust ride height.
I love mine.
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Originally Posted by knox79
I am looking for some feed back from anyone who has installed Pfadt coil overs on their car. Are you happy with the handling, and the ability to adjust the ride height of your car?
The PFADT Coilovers and PFADT Competition Sway Bars are well worth the money...I have them on my Z06 and love them!!!

Jim
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Will never run anything else again!!
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I am looking for some feed back from anyone who has installed Pfadt coil overs on their car. Are you happy with the handling, and the ability to adjust the ride height of your car?
Couldn't be happier. Here are some pix of them on my car:

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c5-c...alifornia.html
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I have the Aggressor II package from PFADT. The car handles great , It doesn't lean in turns or dip when heaving braking. My stock suspension handle too soft. My car now handles like a vette and can do anything I imagine. The car sits sits a little lower and gets plenty of looks. Is a must have!!
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Originally Posted by ctvette2003
I love them, handle great and great ride. Very easy to adjust ride height.
Me too!!
Old 06-12-2009, 06:02 PM
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I hit a massive hole last week on the passenger side, BANG BANG, the body didn't flex, I had to pull over and check the panels because I was sure 1 of the tires had to get high enough to strike them. But everything was fine.

By the way, wheel hop is gone, no more bouncing around rough corners and off/on ramps are done at 70 mph
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Thanks for the information. looks like I will be making that purchase. Just was wondering did anyone do the install themselves and if you did how was it?
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do they take away some of the wheel hop on radials on the 1 to 2 shift?
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I had National Speed from Wilmington NC install the coilovers, sway bar, pillow blocjs and cambering kit. It was alot of work and wanted in done right.
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I have them and love them. I am lowered very low and it takes a pretty good bump to bottom out my rears. I am runnin 335s on the rear. I installed them myself. Did the fronts one day and the rears the next. The hardest part for me was getting all the stock stuff off. I used jack stands and a floor jack. The only thing i ran into was I had a noise when i hit bumps. took me a few days to figure out what it was..I finally checked the top nut on the shocks and found that they were loose allowing some play on the top mount. Once I tightened them up all the noise went away and have not looked back since..You will like them..
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what setting are you running SFC? Im slammed and running 10 front 12 rear with T1 bars
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I run 10/12 setting on coilovers its firm ride
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im at 6/6 and its workin so far
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I like my coil overs however the upper shock nuts could loosen, two weeks ago the rear passenger side nut completely unscrewed and fell off allowing the coil over to hammer over bumps. I replaced the supplied nuts with two nuts per coil over so the nuts could be tightened against each other, I think they are M10 x 1.25.


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