I drive a pretty-well modified 2001 ACR. Grassroots Racing Magazine hailed this car as an "out of teh box autocross racer." To find a product like the Hotchkis Sways that SO vastly improved the vehicle is unbeleivable. I have spent $1,000's on suspension componants, improvements, and adjustments. The $300 I spent on the Hotckis products was teh best money I have ever spent.
The driving improvements are phenominal. Understeer? What understeer? Oversteer? Only in the rain or snow with crappy tires. This car is now a point and shoot weapon of apex destruction. I have yet to break it loose after two days of driving like a maniac.
Here is an example: Last night leaving work I shot a freeway onramp at over 85 mph. The onramp is a gradual rise with a nasty hump just before the apex at which time it slopes down to the freeway. With my old setup it was a precarious 70mph entry. Last night I TRYED to break the car loose and it wouldn't. Instead of a sickly thunk on the driver's front bumpstop, the car squatted into the hump in the onramp and just sucked itself down into the turn. I hit the right lane to merge at well over 95mph. Then shot passed a cop. (oops)
I am currently running Eibach Pro Kits, KYB GR-2's, the Hotchkis Units, Energy Suspension, DC and Vibrant Strut Braces. I have also welded some of the trunk seems under and behind teh carpeting. Screw the little bllue pills and porn, buy some Hotchkis sways and be happy in the twistys.
My tires have nothing left to them and never have and never will grip the way i want. (195/55/15 Zeixus from Les Schwab. Les Schwab can lick it). I have 4 205/55/15 BF Goodrich G-Force Sport tires sitting in my room waiting till this weekend to be put on. I cant wait! Eventualy ill get some rota slipstream 15X7s with 205/50/15 Azenis RT-615 tires... should make a night and day differance.