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Old Oct 13, 2010 | 01:20 PM
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Just wanted to share a recent article from Corvette magazine written on the benefits of upgrading your C5/C6 suspension to coilovers. There are some great points in here that dispel the myth that coilovers are for race cars only. Johnny O'Connell has pointed out that "When we improve cars, it doesn't mean you have to be a racecar driver, it actually means the opposite. It makes the car easier to drive." This is precisely the objective when we sit down to engineer a product for the Corvette chassis.



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Old Oct 13, 2010 | 02:01 PM
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Who is Jan Morgan and who does he/she work for?
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I replaced my old worn out leaf springs with the Pfadt Coil Overs. They did improve my handling tremendously! I love them!
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I replaced my old worn out leaf springs with the Pfadt Coil Overs. They did improve my handling tremendously! I love them!
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How much did the ride quality improve or did it?
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Thanks for the comments guys! I am not familiar with the author or whether they are freelance or not, but the article is from Corvette Magazine.
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Originally Posted by SacCityCorvette
Hi,
How much did the ride quality improve or did it?
Well, I had the Pfadt coil-overs installed at the same time I had Pfadt street sway-bars installed. These mods made my car very stiff around corners! It handles awesome!
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Probably the same Jan Morgan that was always stumping for Global West suspension components over Maximum Motorsports for Fox body mustangs and getting in heated arguments with the Corner-Carvers.com crew and on Corral.net in the late 90's early 2000's.
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