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[QUOTE]Originally posted by v-town coupe: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by 50Reasons: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by v-town coupe: [qb] 50reasons who is going to do all of your work? If you are doing it, how are your fabrication skills? Welding, cutting, etc? [/qb][/QUOTE]Mostly me :confused: lol [/qb][/QUOTE]My advice would be to really look into the DSE setup. sounds like your car will be mostly street driven and even though the Cortex and Griggs stuff is awesome, I think the stret ride quality would be better going either DSE or roadster shop route. Roadster shop is a weld in unit so I would lean more towards the Dse out of those two. you have to remember Stacy and kyle drive their cars hundreds of miles to events and commute to and from the DSE office in their vehicles as well. I think the Griggs and Cortex are great and are well suited for RACE ONLY cars I also think in terms of lap times you will not see much difference in a DSE car vs the others listed above, but at the same time be able to have a great ride quality. Im not here to bash on anyones products, so I want to lay out why I went with DSE. I'll let the OP determine your own decision. -The kit has been designed to accomadate a 275 front tire while only a loss of 2% of the turning radius. no flaring needed, the 275 will tuck in a factory wheel well just fine. -Graphs and charts are available to me to show the amount of camber gain, steering angle, etc. these are true blue numbers, not made up shit. if you visit the DSE trailer at an event kyle and stacy will take over an hour showing various R&D videos and how they came up with the figures. -the kit has been truly engineered, it went through tons of auto cad drawings before even the first prototype was made.they had certain things that were to be achieved and they did not stop till they had what they wanted. -Speed Align, this is an awesome option for those of us who will track the cars occasionally or need to make adjustments. once you have the front end aligned you can make front end adjustments without the need of expensive camber, caster tools. this also helps cause you can create log sheets of which setting work best at various courses. -Oem Compatabillity, they designed the kit to use a FORGED vette spindle not some tired out cast sn-95 spindle. the spindle uses an off the shelf hub assembly with a ford pattern, the inner and outer tie rods are off the shelf units same as the ball joints.even better, you bend a tierod at an Auto X event there is a good possibility a Vette guy may have one laying in his trailer. -The upper and lower control arms are fitted with Del-rin bushings, Del-rin bushings give you ball bearing type handling and smoothness with slight give and offer quiter operation. -Inverted shocks which = less unsprung weight = better ride. -installation, pretty easy, only welding that has to be done is a slight tack on the crush sleeves and bump stops which is easy for a DIY'er or really simple for a welding pro to knock out. DSE offers good looking rolled filler panels for the old shock towers. not some flat piece of sheet metal or even worse something you spend tons of money and time on to still just have a flat piece of metal covering the hole! other then that its just cutting and some drilling. -Attachment, this kit uses 6 attaching points that were factory on the car plus 10 more you drill and use billet steel crush sleeves. total of 16 bolts holding it in the car. this is also really awesome cause cars do wreck out at the track, with bolted parts you may get the advantage of unbolting and replacing something. -saves weight, you will save about 60 lbs over all the stock stuff which nobody else could assure me of any weight savings. -quality, everything is tig welded and built in the Usa using american steel, aluminum etc. bearings and off shelf parts are all made in usa prodcts. all the parts are built in house at the DSE facility, where they have a 5 member team who does just QC work. -everything is packaged into the craddle assembly. This kit was designed the way want it, so there is no using factory mounting or trying to fab some plates to weld to the frame etc. the front spline'd sway bar fits in the craddle and positioned so their is the tire clearance needed etc. the craddle holds everything!!! -once installed it is just flat out sexy, they thought out everything to the point the sway bar is powder coated flat black and arms are gloss to offer contrast while looking under the car so it doesnt just look like some giant black blob. after spending enormous amounts of money you want the stuff to look good! -stuff flat out works! bar none you will not see more of any other companies cars in the winner/top 5 circle. Dse has just ventured into the ford market so it will need a little more time to grow, but their GM equipped cars are just killing it at a ton of events through out the nation. Last year after debut of the mustang line, the tuckers were at the mid america shelby meet and kyle was beating fully prepped track cars with R compound tires in the DSE mustang. he was posting lap times 2 seconds faster while on a 200 tread wear tire. after complaints of wider rubber., he put a 245 all the way around and was still posting .5 faster lap time then those race prepped cars. -2012 phr muscle car of the year showdown, the DSE mustang won while also beating out vipers and porches that showed up for the open track day while muscle car of the year was going on. I rode in the Dse mustang back in march at goodguys and the car is graceful and it sticks!! Dse uses lower spring rates with bigger sway bars to keep it planted but yet still offer a stellar ride. One again its IMO, but I researched and researched, ride along after ride along, it seriously took almost two years for me to go for this! make no mistake all said and done front and rear is about $25 once you factor brakes, housing, tubs etc. front alone will be about $12k by the time im done! sorry for the longest thread ever! :burnout: :burnout: [/QB][/QUOTE]
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