If your going to send it out for paint leave the original k member in place. It will get hit with over spray and everything else while in paint jail. Ask me how I know.
This. You don't want the new stuff on the car when it goes to paint. No reason for it either.
Why people want to spend $5k+ just to get a rack and pinion I still don't understand. It's pretty much the only clear benefit from an actual suspension perspective, everything else is a trade off. Everything else, handling, ride, etc can be just as good or even better with a properly updated torsion bar suspension. All the fancy coilover swaps still just started as Pinto suspension, you upgrade pinto suspension or you upgrade Mopar suspension. The chassis was designed for the mopar suspension and handles it better, the coilovers put the suspension loads in an entirely different location. Header clearance? How often do you install headers? Once usually.
It's your car and that's my opinion and you're free to do whatever you like, but I just don't understand it. Especially now that so many aftermarket upgrades are available for the torsion bar system.
