touring suspension

[Nesryn]

Ok, talking about suspension... What's best to do to our cars to get better handling and performance? I mean, my SL handles ok, but it's not amazing. Probably has to do with FWD and weight dist. But what's the best thing to do?

[yourlostduck]

As far as I would know - get some decent sport/lowering springs as I had mentioned earlier, front and rear sway bars, lighten the car a bit, and get some new sticky tires.

The sway bars help make the frame rigid, and keep the chassis from twisting and rolling as much when you take those turns hard.

As for handling on the SL, the FWD is part of it. FWD's have that bad problem of understeer when you accelerate in turns and such.

Think about it, when you have FWD those two out of four wheels are doing acceleration, braking, and steering. When you start distributing the load to the other two wheels on a car (like what RWD and AWD does), general performance will obviously increase.

I always wondered why mitsu made the SL a FWD and not a RWD.

But then again FWD is what makes the SL good for winter, rain, and stuff. RWD would've made it a better drag/race car.

-Michael