Say more. What do you like about it? What were you hoping to accomplish that is achieved? I need to freshen up my stock suspension, rides like crap, very harsh. Wouldn't mind a 0.5 - 1"lift in front. Hate torsion bar suspensions...
So the torsion bars when lifted were very stiff and the angles of the tie rods caused terrible bump steer. I tried a couple cheaper shock options to try to bandaid the problem. I think I tried stock monomax shocks, Rancho 9000s and then Bilstien 5100s none helped. Even put on a steering stabilizer to try to mask the bump steer but no matter what I did it was just bad. At the time I lived by the Black hills and spent a considerable amount of time off road on rocky trails. I could tell it was mostly the front that rode terrible because I could feel it in the wheel and pedals.
The coilovers not only dampen properly but when using the correct spring for your height it should allow full range of travel giving you more range of dampening. The torsion bars seemed to give very little suspension travel compared to the coilovers which have so much travel I have to stack blocks of wood to jack the front of the truck up now.
Street ability wise its considerably smoother. Driving my silverado vs my Tahoe which still has T bars it feels to just float over pot holes and bumps while never bottoming out. There is more body sway with the coilovers since the spring rates are softer but if you have a sway bar that should be negligible.
Since I lowered the truck from a 6" lift to about a 1"-2" level the steering angles are better and there is no more bump steer. Also since the suspension isn't rock hard the steering doesn't reverberate the hard impact into the wheel anymore.
Overall goal was to have good enough ride quality my passengers didn't bite their tongue off and yes I believe I achieved it
