AAD Drag Pack Alignment Results

[fumanchu182]

How bad is it? I have a habit of overdoing cars and making them uncomfortable to drive.

You for sure will not enjoy your back if you live in a state like MD with a lot of potholes.

 

[jonx96]

You for sure will not enjoy your back if you live in a state like MD with a lot of potholes.

Not sure which you have but hopefully the GeForce are better if I spend the extra 💰

 

[fumanchu182]

Bmr

Not sure which you have but hopefully the GeForce are better if I spend the extra 💰

 

[TNREDEYE]

In my experience BMR = noisy.

 

[fubar569]

The only real benefit to the BMR is ease of install for those concerned with dropping the cradle all the way out. It only has to come down a little bit one side at a time.

If it wasn't for that and the fact I'd be having to do this on my garage floor and not having a competent shop to properly align the cradle (because I will screw that up) I'd do the new GeForce stuff. Or whiteline. If available.

 

[vortecd]

Hey @DGatzby I saw on the interwebs you had installed the whiteline cradle bushings years ago. What did you think of them? Gforce has some now but are out until mid april and are a lot more money. I'm not a bmr fan so don't want those

 

[vortecd]

another option to getting bushings out without dropping cradle

 

[DGatzby]

Hey @DGatzby I saw on the interwebs you had installed the whiteline cradle bushings years ago. What did you think of them? Gforce has some now but are out until mid april and are a lot more money. I'm not a bmr fan so don't want those

Bought them again for the Redeye if that tells ya anything. Really think they ride better and don’t allow any noise or anything thru. Darn I want to drive that thing soon. It has been too long. A guy from the other place is going to allow me to drive his Sunday in FL! He is having a problem with darting and says it is aligned. So I’m in for an opinion drive

 

[vortecd]

Bought them again for the Redeye if that tells ya anything. Really think they ride better and don’t allow any noise or anything thru. Darn I want to drive that thing soon. It has been too long. A guy from the other place is going to allow me to drive his Sunday in FL! He is having a problem with darting and says it is aligned. So I’m in for an opinion drive

Did you install them?

 

[DGatzby]

Did you install them?

Nope, took the easy way out, and paid my favorite dealer. Those guys have been so good to me, I would be dumb to not share with them. They dropped the cradle to the floor, put the bushings in, replaced the control arms and did an alignment. A reasonable charge is nearly a days work for a man for all of that including putting it back down and driving it away.

 

[vortecd]

Nope, took the easy way out, and paid my favorite dealer. Those guys have been so good to me, I would be dumb to not share with them. They dropped the cradle to the floor, put the bushings in, replaced the control arms and did an alignment. A reasonable charge is nearly a days work for a man for all of that including putting it back down and driving it away.

I like to do everything I can, I like the challenge sometimes. I see so many things online where people said it was really hard then it wasn't. I have had some that were though. I been pulling cars apart from little things to pulling the engine out and tearing it apart with no lifts or air tools for over 30 years. Changed a head gasket in a parking lot when it blew on the dyno 300 miles away and I had to drive the car home. Plus it saves money

 

[DGatzby]

I like to do everything I can, I like the challenge sometimes. I see so many things online where people said it was really hard then it wasn't. I have had some that were though. I been pulling cars apart from little things to pulling the engine out and tearing it apart with no lifts or air tools for over 30 years. Changed a head gasket in a parking lot when it blew on the dyno 300 miles away and I had to drive the car home. Plus it saves money

It don’t sound too bad. Getting the original bushings off is the worst part of it. I love working on it, but doing that exercise 24” off the floor would not be fun.

 

[vortecd]

It don’t sound too bad. Getting the original bushings off is the worst part of it. I love working on it, but doing that exercise 24” off the floor would not be fun.

We will find out

 

[Speedy!]

I talked to Mike from OST last week. They've done a lot of testing on their shop Hellcat and his advice for a street driven car was to do the AAD drag pack and cradle lockout bushings and that's it. He said when they went further on their shop car the ride suffered and they're actually thinking of putting the other stock parts back in it.

I don't have the cradle lockout so I'm considering that, but that's one project I'll just drop the car off and have someone do. Dropping the cradle wasn't that big of a deal but cutting those bushing out and installing the new ones looks like a big PITA.

 

[vortecd]

I talked to Mike from OST last week. They've done a lot of testing on their shop Hellcat and his advice for a street driven car was to do the AAD drag pack and cradle lockout bushings and that's it. He said when they went further on their shop car the ride suffered and they're actually thinking of putting the other stock parts back in it.

I don't have the cradle lockout so I'm considering that, but that's one project I'll just drop the car off and have someone do. Dropping the cradle wasn't that big of a deal but cutting those bushing out and installing the new ones looks like a big PITA.

What would be further then arms and bushings?

 

[Speedy!]

Shocks, springs, diff bushings.

 

[vortecd]

Shocks, springs, diff bushings.

Shocks and springs were not even on my mind being I don't want to lower the car and like my shocks being adjustable. Drags springs normally ride soft