Are you aware of the fact that ST springs are considerably softer than the original ones? You are better off cutting the original springs to lower the car rather than aftermarket on these.
Check the parking brake cables to see if the calipers are allowed to return fully.
Then check for dragging guide pins or sticking pistons.
The ABS has no affect on spongy brakes in these. Not understanding this ABS style and the bleeding procedure does though.
These cars came with very hard front pads with medium grip rears. This is a nature of the engineering for rear lockup control. It also leads to taper wear in the pads, Spongy that makes it.
A set of grippy pads does wonders on these cars.
A set of 13" disks and Wilwoods are incredible but you will want to loose the power assist, but not the ABS.
Yes, they do not let me on the Starquest forums as with the DSM sites because I do not follow the sheep.
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No one seems to rate check aftermarket springs before putting them in, Marketing says there stiffer, funny the small diameter wire made me question that. Plus that was the era of stupid progressive rates. They start 40% softer and rise to 20% softer.
Now if they started out at double the rate then fine. Yes coilovers and set your own rates, I change between 500 to 650 front depending on the track and about 275 +/- in the rear. I have 17x 10 fronts and 17x11 rears now so I expect the balance will change.
ABS, mine moved into the right rear quarter on my silver car. On the one I am building now it is above the muffler next to the 20 gallon Fuel safe cell.
These ABS units are so benign that most people do not even think they work. They do. I set up a bit of extra bias to the rear and let the ABS cap the excess.
Now if they started out at double the rate then fine. Yes coilovers and set your own rates, I change between 500 to 650 front depending on the track and about 275 +/- in the rear. I have 17x 10 fronts and 17x11 rears now so I expect the balance will change.
ABS, mine moved into the right rear quarter on my silver car. On the one I am building now it is above the muffler next to the 20 gallon Fuel safe cell.
These ABS units are so benign that most people do not even think they work. They do. I set up a bit of extra bias to the rear and let the ABS cap the excess.