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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ReplicaR" data-source="post: 914813" data-attributes="member: 9209">My live axle car handles just fine, I can assure you of that. I think you sort of screwed yourself on the spring choice. While H&R Super Sport looks bitching, it drops the car too low for stock front end and rear end to work properly, and additionally the spring rates are too low. A good beginner kit in my opinion would have been either Koni or Bilstein shocks, paired with H&R Race or Super Race springs. They don't drop as much, so suspension still works fine. The springs are stiffer, so car does not transfer as much weight, and the shocks are top notch, so they will control the body motion better. If you are not planning on getting all crazy with suspension like I did, you can also add a set of sway bars from Eibach, and that should be a very solid kit, street or track. Don't ever say stuff like, "oh it will never handle like STi", or that live axle is a handicap. It's true, live axle does not really absorb sharp bumps, but then again, I don't know any track that has shitty surface like that. Also, STi has a motor that's so far forward, that any time you stuff it into a slow tight corner, all they do is understeer. We can move our motors back, and offset the weight distributions, but they can't. Make it light enough, put sticky tire on it, and anything will handle.Which tracks have you been to btw?</blockquote>