Dave , I got Saphire out of storage today and installed the backbone. Tristie and I went for a 200 mile drive. All I can say is WOW! This car is sooooo flat through a turn. No body roll at all. I even had the rear end steep out on me a couple of times with no body roll. This will take some playing with to get the feel of it. Great product.
Location: Marietta SC but hail from Guelph Ontario Canada
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Originally Posted by bryan1969
Dave , I got Saphire out of storage today and installed the backbone. Tristie and I went for a 200 mile drive. All I can say is WOW! This car is sooooo flat through a turn. No body roll at all. I even had the rear end steep out on me a couple of times with no body roll. This will take some playing with to get the feel of it. Great product.
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Do you need to drop the exhaust to get it in or can you slip it under the exhaust?
No, it sliped right in. I have a DDM header and high flo cat bolted to a GM cat back. The only problem I had was getting my fat a** under the car just on ramps.
i'm also debating which backbone to get. very curious the difference between street and race. I haven't seen any comments from DDM on the difference, nor do they explain the difference on their website.
Do you need to drop the exhaust to get it in or can you slip it under the exhaust?
In my case I had to (2008 GXP, stock exhaust)
I took the exhaust off of the rubber hangers, all of them except for 1. (I left the passenger side one on, the one on top).
I also had to grab the pipe and pull it down to bring it down a little more and then the stock brace came right out.
I also have the DDM Race Backbone installed at our last mod meet. You immediately feel the difference in the tightness of the car. Tremendous response during turns, very tight and flat. I love to move my steering wheel from side to side while going straight just to feel the force it makes on my neck.
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i'm also debating which backbone to get. very curious the difference between street and race. I haven't seen any comments from DDM on the difference, nor do they explain the difference on their website.
I actually don't know why there are two different backbones sold. It should only be the race model -IMHO-. After installing the race version, the only thing I can also say is WOW.
To anyone thinking about the backbone, don't fret about street or race, just spend the extra dough and get the race. All I know is, railroad track hop and jump is a thing of the past. I had to switch lanes in a hurry last week and the car acted like a slot car. Scared me a little. Last time I felt a car switch was in my Fiat X 1/9. No body lean. Can't wait till it's lowered....
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i just opted for the street version, i don't think anyone will see the difference between the street and race version unless you are on the track taking extremely hard turns,
for anyone who doesn't use their car at the track just grab the street version and call it a day
We have twisties coming in and little or no banking cause we are in the coastal plain of Eastern NC.
But, I travel for work and I get bored sometimes
Got the Race and have not looked back
the difference between the race and street version is 1/8th of an inch, the regular street version already provides a huge increase over stock, you might see a 5% difference with the race version if anything at all on the streets, maybe at 60-80mph turns you might see something but i can't see it being that much, the 1/8th of an inch over what the stock already offers compared to street version can't improve the rigidy that much
Location: In the land of clunk, grind, and leak: Getrag hell!
I'm looking forward to getting the street version installed-after 3.5 years of how it is stock, I'm looking forward to the difference! Have the pro-beam to add too, it's tempting to do them at diff times to see how it differs between just the bbone, then with the p-beam.
Just waiting for a decent day to get at it.
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