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Old Feb 18, 2008 | 07:37 PM
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Right on, Kushan is a great tuner .
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Another here for Kushan, he does top QUALITY work!
He just installed a new blower-cam/Edelbrock 215 heads and re-tuned my Maggie, average +40/50hp/tq on the low and mid-range, around +80hp/tq @ 5k-5600rpm and ended up with a peak hp gain of 118rwhp....... nice!

I`ve got new r-compound tires in route for install, corner balancing/alignment!
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Another here for Kushan, he does top QUALITY work!
He just installed a new blower-cam/Edelbrock 215 heads and re-tuned my Maggie, average +40/50hp/tq on the low and mid-range, around +80hp/tq @ 5k-5600rpm and ended up with a peak hp gain of 118rwhp....... nice!

I`ve got new r-compound tires in route for install, corner balancing/alignment!
Congrads on your new setup Rick I know you put some coin into your baby .
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Bruce, are you guys running coil overs? I was told that you can't corner balance a cross spring suspension like the Z's have.

Have I been misinformed?
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Bruce, are you guys running coil overs? I was told that you can't corner balance a cross spring suspension like the Z's have.

Have I been misinformed?
Rog, they are running coil-overs and I can`t answer specifically for the stock C6/Z but Kushan told me he could corner balance my C5 as each corner is adjustable.
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Bruce, are you guys running coil overs? I was told that you can't corner balance a cross spring suspension like the Z's have.

Have I been misinformed?
I am indeed running coil overs, but even it I wasn't, and even if I had the stock (leaf spring) suspension, 4 corner balancing enhances the performance. Kushan balanced his stock set up and turned in his quickest lap time last month.

Call Kushan for more technical information.

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I have been holding off to get a road and track alignment (per specs on the CF) on my Z because I wanted to get it corner balanced, but was told they couldn't do it for a cross spring, I will go talk to Kushan about this.

Is he doing his own aligments now or still using True Line?
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again, give Kushan a call.... he can get you the info.
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Kushan scores again. My car handles fantastic since I did the Coil Overs and had the 4 corner balance.
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Originally Posted by RoHo
I have been holding off to get a road and track alignment (per specs on the CF) on my Z because I wanted to get it corner balanced, but was told they couldn't do it for a cross spring, I will go talk to Kushan about this.

Is he doing his own aligments now or still using True Line?
He uses True Line for aligments and you can ruff balance a stock C5 suspension. I did mine by eye and checked it on Kushans four corner system and I was close .
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I have never heard of a cross-spring, but of course you can set ride-height and corner balance a Corvette with stock springs or coil-overs.

Cross-spring sounds like another name for the mono-leaf.

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