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A major change for the Professional Awesome team is switching from KW Motorsport 2-Way coilovers to Fortune Auto Dreadnought Pro coilovers. Fortune Auto allows for custom valving either digressive or ultra-digressive as well as sealed radial mount bearings that reduce spring binding as the damper compresses and rebounds.When it comes to the suspension, we were running the KW Motorsports 2-Way Coilovers when the car last ran at Road Atlanta. We’ve run them consistently for 3 years with no problems which speaks highly of the products and company to say the least. That being said, when owning a car named after Darwin, one should always be prepared for change and the Professional Awesome will be running Fortune Auto Dreadnought Pro 2-Way Monotube Coilovers on our Evo V2.0. With trick features such as radial bearing mount spring perches, Swift Springs, the ability to see shock dyno graphs and custom tailor the damper curves to our application, we are extremely excited to see what’s in store.
A sneak peak at the rear suspension. Here you can see our Agency Power rear control arms and our custom locks made to keep the arms from sliding in the camber adjustment slot for an OEM lower control arm.
The Agency Power arms after being modified to accept the OEM Mitsubishi spherical bearings. Careful consideration was made to ensure proper interference fitment.
Machined from 6061 Aluminum, the lower control arms save 1lb of weight per side.
R/T Ernie (evolutionm.net) tubular rear trailing arms add extra clearance for wide wheels and tires.
RobiSpec spherical bushings remove any play associated with the stock rubber bushings while offering a big improvement in freedom of movement compared with the delrin bushings used previously.We’ve made a few other changes to the suspension over the years as well. One of which was opening the Whiteline catalogue and saying “YES!” Whiteline sway bars replaced the previous Cusco units. 26mm up front along with a 22mm for the rear. Whiteline sway bar end links front and rear were added to the mix as well. A Whiteline Steering Precision kit holds the steering rack firmly in place and Whiteline’s Roll Center kit improves geometry on the front. Whiteline’s Rear Bump Steer bushings were added to reduce unwanted geometry changes out back. Did I mention we like Whiteline? We still run Perrin’s PSRS and we followed Pontiac’s advice of “Wider is Better” by switching to Evo X front control arms for added track width. We added some Ford Mustang (AMERICUH!) spherical bump steer kits repurposed for our knuckles and our wider track width to dial out any chance of bump steer. Out back we run R/TErnie’s custom tubular rear trailing arms, which offer more clearance for wider wheels/tires, along with Robispec spherical trailing arm bushings. Finally, we also run Agency Power rear lower control arms for weight savings and ease of camber adjustment that have been custom machined to accept OEM Mitsubishi Spherical bushings instead of the aftermarket rubber included normally.
