Kirby, I agree, but it still boils down to intended use. If you can go from say an .80 skidpad number to a 1 G by putting on tires that wear out in 5000 miles, lowering the car 3.5 inches and putting on 350 pound/inch springs and 1.5 inch anti-sway bars, great. But how many are willing to have a street car that beats them up, drags over intersections (can't even think about driveways) and wears out the unibody in 3-5 years? Our PTs are great Personal Transportation, and we all embrace mods. I don't see anyone here stripping the interior, replacing all the glass with lexan and putting a full race suspension under them. The bars offered are like any street modification; intended to improve a product past the factory compromise. You don't want a car granny would be happy with, but you don't want to install a brace that stiffens the front so much that it requires other mods and ruins the ride. Race cars with no-compromise suspensions require periodic inspections to make sure that fasteners, electrical connections, and components are still okay. If you want to go club racing or autocrossing in a PT, the parts offered would not be useful. You would probably go to a fabrication shop and have a bar made with the features I mentioned before. I'd love to see a PT going around the local track, but it would have to be a fanatic, since the classification for the car depends on how many mods are done. Putting $5k in a PT (wheels, tires, suspension and lightening) would bump you up to a modified class, and you would be marginally faster than a stock SRT4. You would be a back of the pack in the modified class. Simple physics.
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2004 Dark Plum Base with windows tinted, cabin filter, silencers removed, fog lights, 18\'s, all Red taillights, Blaine\'s struts, modesty cover, color-matched center dash, 06 rear bumper
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