[NickyRacerBoy]

Originally Posted by glamcem

It all depends how serious you are about the track use and whether or not you care about the NVH for daily use. I personally don't care as much about the ride comfort as I hardly ever use the car for DD but when I do MRC is definitely nice of course.

If I could do all over again I think I would start with a base SS and get the ZL1 1LE suspension and track-worthy diff and change it into a track car (assuming SS already has all the cooling that the 1LE package has). I've seen the base SS cars listed as low as $29-30k when I was searching for my 1LE, with the amount of savings (about $10-12k in most cases) one can get the suspension, race seat, harness/roll bar, custom wheels..etc and also shave a few hundreds lbs during the process I cannot think of any better track car (that is new and have factory track warranty) at that price point (total of $40-42k with mods)

I am not a big fan of BMR offerings due to additional weight and fitment/clerance issues that my friend had with their sway bars on his Gen 5 1LE and would definitely prefer OEM.

If it has to be aftermarket, I would wait for the AFE/Pfadt offerings (cannot see anything offered for the latest gen just yet). Comparing AFE and BMR control arms, it's very easy to see that Afe/Pfadt spent more time on R&D for coming up with lightweight parts

I couldn't agree anymore with you. I am waiting see if GM comes out with a Plane Jane SS next year. Buy it gut interior do full road race cage seats suspension etc...

[JeromeS13]

Originally Posted by glamcem

good to know, thanks for the info. Did you weigh them against the OEM bars?

edit: he also had issues with the BMR motor mounts (that's whole different story) and had to replace them with OEM again.

I actually did weigh mine when I swapped them out. I used a food scale.

BMR OEM Diff Overall Diff
UTCA061 1123 803 320 640
UTCA058 1050 523 527 1054
UTCA059 1131 602 529 1058
TR007 1772 1375 397 794
Grams 3546



BMR OEM Diff Overall Diff
UTCA061 2.48 1.77 0.71 1.41
UTCA058 2.31 1.15 1.16 2.32
UTCA059 2.49 1.33 1.17 2.33
TR007 3.91 3.03 0.88 1.75
lbs 7.82

Here's a link that's a little easier to read.

[kropscamaro16]

afe control/pfadt will not be coming out with any other suspension parts including coilovers for along time if ever...im friends with the head suspension guy who used to work for hotchkis and they recently bought out swayaway and are focusing on more offroad parts lately

[slick3]

Originally Posted by kropscamaro16

afe control/pfadt will not be coming out with any other suspension parts including coilovers for along time if ever...im friends with the head suspension guy who used to work for hotchkis and they recently bought out swayaway and are focusing on more offroad parts lately

Bummer those pfadt pieces for the Gen5 look real nice.

[kropscamaro16]

Originally Posted by slick3

Bummer those pfadt pieces for the Gen5 look real nice.

yup agreed i was still waiting on my prototype coilovers and they told me not anytime soon lol :(

guess my yyz springs will do for now and hoping koni or bisltein comes out with some new shocks for non mrc cars soon

[YoungFamous]

Will the ZL1 1LE Spec Handling Component Suspension Upgrade System fit with the 1LE Spec Suspension on a SS MRC