Reply to "Shockers and suspension setup."

FWIW the 4" ID springs were sold by Hall I believe to be like the originals and have a habit of unseating over bumps if you have them on a low ride height. Color coding b/w/y is listed as 650# at wwww.aldaneagle.com. Standard Aldans have 2.5" dia. springs.

I'm not sure I understand what the previous owner was trying to acheive, the spring rate won't affect the stance too much at rest and the shocks are ride height adjustable. Unless he ran out of adjustment and went for shorter springs.

I shipped one shock back to Aldan for rebuild once and they never charged me anything, so firstly I'd recommend giving them a call and explaining your situation. They may be willing to help rather than see a competitors set of shocks go on your car. You would only need to ship the bodies, not springs.

Now when you ask what everyone is running IMO you have to consider everything working as a package in unison. Firstly I know not whether your GT5 is a later factory car or an earlier car with upgrade GT5 kit?

The wide body fatory cars came with and benefit from heavier duty swaybars (stock GT5 would be 7/8") and I run 1" (solid, none of that hollow crap that Hall sells...they break) with the sphere balls at the ends of the sway bar. For shocks I have QA1's on both Pantera's and I'm very happy with them, you can get a set of single adjustables with springs via Summit Racing for around $850 (double adjustable adds another $500). On the GT5 the spring rates I use are 450# FR and 550# RR and on the GRP4 build for mostly track I have actually started a bit lighter with 400/500.

I'm guessing there must be a variety of aftermarket shocks available in Australia too? You could take uncompressed and compressed lengths etc. to a local supplier and see what they have.

Good luck,
Julian