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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shovel" data-source="post: 1549990" data-attributes="member: 29855">Ride discussions are always a disaster because everyone's butt is calibrated differently - and wildly so.    These are sporty cars built on what was already an aging platform 30 years ago and if they made them plush enough for a cadillac driver they'd be too mushy for a competitive racer.   The live rear axle is always going to upset the chassis more than independent suspension will.  If your car is actually stock and just aged, yeah replacing rubber is a really good start - that means the spring isolators but it also means the bushings in your control arms (for the front arms you'd probably just want to replace the whole arm since that takes care of the ball joint too).    People have all sorts of shock absorber preferences,  the standard KYB's (the inexpensive ones) are not at all stiff & they're what I have in both of my Mustangs.   I don't have a clue about Koni.  If there are aftermarket parts on it now it's anybody's guess what those are,  but most of the time "performance" means worse ride quality and half the time it means worse actual performance too.</blockquote>