[creeper]

here is how my suspension has evolved:
1. stock
with 85k miles on it, it felt mushy and dull. I bought the car because I wanted to go fast in a straight line, but then realized that it's really not that cool. Then I started autox'ing and decided I wanted to do some minor suspension upgrades.
2. added 32mm front bar
really didn't make much of a difference, but it was cheap and I wanted to replace the endlinks anyway
3. poly/poly lca's
definitely helped wheel hop, made rear feel more stable, but I didn't want any bind for autox so I ditched them after a few months
4. hypercoil springs up front, slp eibach out back with no isolators, bilsteins all around
greatly improved stance, handled pretty well, I was happy for a while. couldn't launch for **** afterwards though. also on bumpy roads the car sort of darted all over.
5. poly/poly adjustable panhard bar
made the rear feel a LOT more planted around hard corners
6. lower control arm relocation brackets
helped launch, hooked a lot better, definitely worth it for drag
7. poly/rod lca's
didn't notice as much of a difference this time around, but figured they wouldn't hurt
8. weld in subframe connectors
awesome
9. edelbrock non adjustable torque arm
hard to tell if it made any difference on cheap street tires
10. swapped out rear slp eibach springs for hotchkis
around hard corners on the street if I hit a bump the rear would "hop" more than I liked, causing it to slide a bit. also the stiff rate didn't help launching, so I swapped to the softer springs
11. went to 35 solid front bar with stock 19 out back
got the front bar first, made a HUGE difference in body roll, eliminated a lot of the darting around the car did as mentioned when I did springs/shocks
12. added solid 21mm rear
made the car feel a LOT more balanced with the 35 up front, the rear was slow to follow any more
13. swapped out 35 solid for 35 hollow
no difference in performance, just lighter
14. swapped out front springs/shocks for Koni SA's, GC coilovers, 600# springs
big difference here. a lot less body roll. rode nicer. handled better.
15. swapped out rear bilsteins for 3rd gen Koni's
helped even more with stopping the rear from being unpredictable when hitting bumps around corners. the softer springs helped a lot, and the better damping of the shocks made it much nicer
16. replaced rear spring isolators
gave a nicer ride since there was actually some travel and I wasn't always slamming the bump stops, also probably helped launch since the lca/pinion angle weren't off by so much
17. sold lca's/brackets and went back to stock torque arm
really didn't notice much difference taking these off. I needed money, was sick of the rod ends making noise and needing to be replaced, and didn't want roll oversteer from the relocation brackets