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Old 08-21-2002, 07:34 PM
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How difficult is this? Directions?
Would I be able to drive 1 hr to the track with no problems?
Gain if any?

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Old 08-21-2002, 08:43 PM
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Just look at it. Not hard to do and have been driving without it now for a year and it is not really noticeable.

It does not weigh much though even with the brackets off.

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Old 08-21-2002, 09:27 PM
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I took mine off couple months ago and unless you really like to hang the curves you wont notice the dif. Its no prob. to take off, and the weight transfer is worth it IMO

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Old 08-21-2002, 10:03 PM
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I've ben driving for several months now without mine. As mentioned above, unless you are going to do some serious corner carving it won't really affect anything.

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Old 08-22-2002, 08:34 AM
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I replaced mine with a larger one and it only took 15 minutes but with a 4 month old car when I took the end links off they were rusted a very little but they broke when I was taking them off so you might want to buy some new ones, poly end links only $10. I plan on simply disconnecting the end links when I get to the track and I should get approximately the same effect of taking it off by the suspension flex but I love cornering so I wouldn't leave mine off. Good luck.

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i just took mine off... i did notice the car does handle bad but the et streets and skinnys dont help much either.
like someone else said you will need to get some new endlinks.
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I would be dropping it just for track duty. Would it still be worth it?
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