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Completely stock to Alterkation so looking forward to that night and day feeling
It should be a totally different car if you're going from bone stock, original factory suspension to a brand new AlterK. After all, you're replacing the entire suspension!!!
And I'm not trying talk you out of the AlterK. I personally prefer the torsion bars, and there are pros/cons to
every suspension out there. Personally I think the pros of a fully modernized torsion bar suspension outweigh the pros of going with a coil-over conversion, but that's my opinion.
I just think the torsion bars get a bad rap because most folks that convert to an aftermarket coil-over conversion are going from worn out factory suspension to brand new suspension, and that difference would be night and day regardless of whether they installed a coil-over conversion OR replaced all the factory parts with modernized torsion bar suspension parts. It's not a fair comparison to go from worn out 50 year old parts to brand new and then say coil-overs are better- of course it was a massive improvement to go from worn out parts to brand new.
But the shortcomings of the torsion bar suspension as it left the factory can all be corrected without coilovers. You can fix the wheel rate and install better shocks, you can fix the caster angle adjustability, you can add a sway bar and bigger brakes. Coil-overs are just a spring and a shock, nothing magic. Realistically the only improvement going from torsion bars to coil-overs is the rack and pinion (which doesn't improve performance) and header clearance. Everything else that the coil-over conversion fixes can be done with torsion bars too.
Wish I could help you in your quest for an installer, but I do all my own work and since my move last year am currently without a shop. And over 2 1/2 hours away from San Lorenzo.
