This is good news. A few clarifying questions if you don't mind.
1. With the stock suspension and 6mm spacers, did you notice any issues with the sway bar touching the radiator cooling pipe? The clearance there is about 15 mm at best anyway! So 7 mm made the difference of clearing with Type R suspension? When we looked at the option of removing the spacer, with some visual inspection, we did not think it would clear the cooling pipe enough to give about the 0.75" to 1" clearance we needed for the Comptech sway bar and brace over the battery tray. We tested this by putting load on the wheels not just jacked up in the air.
2. Do you carry your spare tire? Your avatar seems to show larger aftermarket wheels. Any issues with the spare tire?
Al and I are approaching this solution from a slightly different angle and we are awaiting some customized parts to arrive.
But shaving the spacers down seems a solution worthwhile to explore further especially if a different suspension set up seems to solve the rubbing. I have Bilsteins lower perch on stock springs; Comptech sway bars.
I too have noticed a considerable stiffness in my 98-T but even with only installing the brace in front of the radiator; especially the steering has lost its wishy washy feel at 60-80 mph. I am at a point where I am wondering if the brace under the sway bar will be too much! Mine is both street 65% / track use 35%. I also have the Comptech engine strut bar for the T and that has added some stiffness too - especially noticeable when one makes a hard angle turn on the driveway, the body flexes less.
1. With the stock suspension and 6mm spacers, did you notice any issues with the sway bar touching the radiator cooling pipe? The clearance there is about 15 mm at best anyway! So 7 mm made the difference of clearing with Type R suspension? When we looked at the option of removing the spacer, with some visual inspection, we did not think it would clear the cooling pipe enough to give about the 0.75" to 1" clearance we needed for the Comptech sway bar and brace over the battery tray. We tested this by putting load on the wheels not just jacked up in the air.
2. Do you carry your spare tire? Your avatar seems to show larger aftermarket wheels. Any issues with the spare tire?
Al and I are approaching this solution from a slightly different angle and we are awaiting some customized parts to arrive.
But shaving the spacers down seems a solution worthwhile to explore further especially if a different suspension set up seems to solve the rubbing. I have Bilsteins lower perch on stock springs; Comptech sway bars.
I too have noticed a considerable stiffness in my 98-T but even with only installing the brace in front of the radiator; especially the steering has lost its wishy washy feel at 60-80 mph. I am at a point where I am wondering if the brace under the sway bar will be too much! Mine is both street 65% / track use 35%. I also have the Comptech engine strut bar for the T and that has added some stiffness too - especially noticeable when one makes a hard angle turn on the driveway, the body flexes less.
Additional bonus is that the Type-R sway bar has much better clearance from the radiator hose which used to interfere with my old dali bars.
