Basic Moton Install Price?

[Viper X]

So what does the basic Moton install cost, parts & labor? Are there options, i.e. more "adjustability", etc. Just how much lower do you want this car?

 

[Franko]

I'd like to know as well. This wheel hop is really bugging me. Whats the sense of having all this torque if you can't even have fun and spin the tires. Can't even do a burnout for the little kids heh

 

[Skip White]

From all of my experiances with the Aldans, I must have changed them out 8 times at least, I would say about three hours to do all four, not counting placement for the external resevour. Since you won't have to reuse the oem fork in the rear, this will make things a bit easier. You will have to remove the upper control arm to remove the oem fork in the rear, but this is very simple. The fronts are fairly simple to change out. I don't think resivoir placement is a problem with the SRT. Seems like the SRT's I've seen found a couple conveniant places to mount them.

You asked how low should you lower the car, I would not go more than one full inch. I've heard it from several suspension experts, and they all say not to lower the car more than an inch. You start running into problems, such as stiction, binding, geometry issues, and not to mention dragging the underside over certain obstacles. One inch really shows up as a nice drop. I'm not yet an expert in this, but I think it's best not to go to fare with this. I'm supposed to be working on this my self, and will be working with some really good suspension experts very soon. I hope to learn much.

You will have to do a four wheel alignment, and what ever you do, have a very competent tech do the alignment, and tell them you are going to want a print out before they even start. I would also deveate from the oem alignment specs a bit, as they can be improved on.

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[madman]

I did my Motons myself because I wanted to know my car better. Now when I know I would let others do it. It's just work and some creativity removing stock without removing arms. The upside is that you get to know the car for fine tunning. I'd say $600 for the install/tunning might do it. As far as lowering I'd say I lowered back by almost 2 inches first and front I think 1.5. Which means you get the feeling like riding on your vipers' axx since the nose will point little up.

It's definitely worth it, the ride improvement is there plus you get to dial settings you want for particular application .

 

[Skip White]

$600.00 seems a good bit, HIGH, but I'm not in California.

You could go a little lower than the one inch in the back, but I think 1.5 is the most I would go. I could be wrong. The front may get scraped with more than 1 inch. Depends on how well you can remember to angle it into the driveways.

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