Goodbye Floppy!

[maneesh]

Remove OEM springs, OEM shocks, OEM anti-roll bars

Add Tein CS coilovers, TRD anti-roll bars, upper and lower rear braces, corner weighting, lowered ride height, proper geometry

equals a much more grippy and less sloppy GS300 Sport...it's like a totally different car to drive.. :o surprised a Golf GTi on the bends today...hehe

Now that I can generate more G force on bends, I wish Lexus had put bolstering on the driver's seat...LOL..

More on the install, including pics soon.. :winky: :)

P.S Dave, my rear lower brace installed super quick. All you need to do is take the bolts which are for the petrol tank straps off as well as the subframe bolts, and support the petrol tank whilst you fit the brace. HTH

[Gord]

Nice mate :winky: did you get the edfc control unit ??

[lee_iceman]

Maybe this should have been done a few weeks back then maybe you could have knocked a few seconds of your lap time ;) instead of trying to shed bodywork

[maneesh]

Nice mate :winky: did you get the edfc control unit ??

Nope, will use that money for upgrading brakes.

[maneesh]

Maybe this should have been done a few weeks back then maybe you could have knocked a few seconds of your lap time ;) instead of trying to shed bodywork

If only....

[aido]

Nice one dude, can't wait to see pics, must be like a different animal now :D

[P4UL T]

Sounds great Maneesh,

The crap handling of my GS is the main reason I am thinking of changing cars.

What sort of price would a set up like set me back?

Thanks

[Dave-Ellen]

Nice stuff................

[maneesh]

Sounds great Maneesh,

The crap handling of my GS is the main reason I am thinking of changing cars.

What sort of price would a set up like set me back?

Thanks

despite getting the parts cheap via the states, it's cost me 1.5k including the install and setup.

Will take you for a drive soon, so you can see what an improvement it makes over the standard setup.

The GS has a balanced chassis, it's just setup for comfort from stock

[craig7022]

Really good Maneesh,

I'm looking at updating the chassis on my Gs end of summer now

looking forward to the pictures

[maneesh]

Thanks to Tony Bones for his referral to Chris Franklin at Centre of Gravity. Another man totally into geo and all the technical talk. If him and Tony met up, the conversation would be in another world....

Pics!!!

Chris was adamant that ride heights should be measured properly before the install

The pimp ride minus wheels!

Tein CS vs OEM setup

These are Tein Version 2

Rear chassis brace and rear anti roll bar installed (it's hollow, but bigger, OEM was solid and smaller)

Front anti roll bar installed (it's solid, OEM was hollow)

The man himself

No, it ain't a TRD trained mechanic, it's ME..Chris let me have a go at some of the hands on work...

Chris getting the scales ready for corner weighting

Apparently, you must simulate normal weight of car, so in went the weights on driver's seat to simulate ME!

This was the final result of the corner weighting, 50.2% of weight spread from across opposite corners of the car

Finally, the geo got set properly

A few tips for anyone else...

The car is now lowered to a point where I have too much negative camber, and no camber correction kits exist for the GS

The corner weighting really DOES make a difference, I drove the car before it was done, and it was crap to drive. The corner weighting and geometry really made it brilliant!

[P4UL T]

Sounds great Maneesh

The car is now lowered to a point where I have too much negative camber, and no camber correction kits exist for the GS

What effect will this have, will the tyres wear?

[maneesh]

Sounds great Maneesh

The car is now lowered to a point where I have too much negative camber, and no camber correction kits exist for the GS

What effect will this have, will the tyres wear?

yep, the tyres will wear prematurely, but I'm looking into a custom engineered option to restore the correct camber..it's not a problem if you lower the car to normal GS300 Sport height, but I went lower for handling and looks...

[Tony-Bones]

Sounds great Maneesh

The car is now lowered to a point where I have too much negative camber, and no camber correction kits exist for the GS

What effect will this have, will the tyres wear?

yep, the tyres will wear prematurely, but I'm looking into a custom engineered option to restore the correct camber..it's not a problem if you lower the car to normal GS300 Sport height, but I went lower for handling and looks...

The TDI custome rear toe adjusters will fit the GS.