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[QUOTE]Originally posted by SydeWaySix: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Luke87GT: [qb] I'm wondering how many of you guys with a solid live axle are running around with a torque arm on the street? What can you say about the straight line traction? How about the ride quality (it's supposed to remove all bind in the rear suspension after ditching the upper control arms). What about day to day stuff like jacking up the rear of the car, installing exhaust, or dropping the tranny? How much does this thing get in the way? And lastly, NHV... increases? Thanks, Luke [/qb][/QUOTE]What can I say about, hmmmm...DO IT LUKE! I had this same conversation with Dustin (Epik)a while back when he still had his Mach 1. I love my MM setup and from what I can tell it works TITS! 1. straight line traction: I can honestly say that the T/A really plants the rearend. When I had my stock setup with just MM LCA's, the rear would get swirly with my 430's. After installing the PHB/TA setup, the rear significantly improved. On hard launches it relaly stays straight, and when it "seems" to want to fishtail, the setup always catches it and corrects it back into a straight line. It works just like MM says it should! 2. Ride quality: I don't know if comfort really improves, but I can honestly say that it's not bad at all. I ran the PHB/TA setup with conventional sprigs for a few months and it was fine. My rear springs were a bit soft and I was running crappy Tokico Illumina shocks so the rearend would come down quite a bit when hitting big dips in the road, but when I had the proper TA springs and Bilsteins on my 95 cobra it worked great for me. The correct rear springs (I suggest H&R Super Race for the street - the white ones) paired with a good set of shocks (I prefer Bilsteins), the ride quality is very DD'able. I now have coilovers on all four corners and the ride quality seems a bit more stiff. It's definitely great for the type of driving I use the car for, but I'd recommend conventional springs for the street. 3. Day to day stuff: The PHB/TA setup definitely gets in the way of jacking the car up in the rear, but it is still possible. If the car is lowered (which your's is) and you have the TA, you'd most likely need a low profile jack. I just roll my rear wheels onto a piece of 1" thick wood and it gets the car high enough to allow my non-low profile jack to get under the TA. I still jack it up underneath the TA but since it's at an angle, you'll just need to be careful and go up slowly. You'll also need to get your X/H-pipe modified to fit the TA. I've been able to remove my exhaust from the car without removing the TA so removal isn't an issue. I've never dropped the tranny so I can't tell you whether the TA makes it more difficult or not. As mentioned above, swapping driveshafts is more difficult with the TA in place, but I did it without removing the TA so it's doable. Its not like you'll be swapping DS's all the time anyways! 4. NHV: what does that stand for??? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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