legacycentral bbs

After Replacing Springs and shocks with performance parts on a totally stock legacy sedan or wagon(specify if it makes a difference), what (in order) would you replace, and why?

sway bars?

Besides front and rear sway bars and bushings I would probably get front and rear strut tower braces. If your N/A and don't have a rear sway bar that would be first in my mind (pretty sure you need different rear lateral links and end links). Front control arm bushings, front and rear lateral links and bushings or ones with pillow ball joints, rear end links, rear trailing arms and bushings or ones with pillow ball joints, front and rear STI strut top mounts and maybe aliminum front control arms.

No need to go that buck nutty.

Put a beefier rear anti-sway bar on....that will probably do the most for you, and will help dial out some of the understeer put in due to stiffer/lowering springs.

Other stuff are good suggestions, but not really that critical IMO. I have still have front stock bar & bushings. I haven't decided whether I'm going to swap front bar out or not. I will eventually probably replace bushings, but I'm not too worried about it.

Next big suspension thing I do will be to replace the bushings on the control arms & rear trailing links & lat links......I may even get sti aluminum ones. There's no doubt in my mind the bushings on these parts are worn, and are causing the alignment settings not to hold during cornering.

The sti top mounts are important when you are doing the lowering, do that at the same time if possible, i'm waiting until i can buy mine to install my spt suspension.

Swaybar, swaybar mounts, and swaybar endlinks are going to make the next biggest difference. After that you can start playing with bushings and such, but doing these first won't help if the major stuff is mushy.

Strut tower braces are really really easy to install on a wagon, and they won't hurt. No one can really say for sure how much they help, I might install a rear one when i get in there to install the suspension.

If your wagon's squeaking due to mileage I'd recommend at least a rear strut bar. Eliminated almost all the squeaks for me, but I don't notice any performance advantage. A front bar did seem to keep it a little flatter in the front, though, like a bigger antiroll bar. My car's got over 230k on it, though.

Steve

Before any of the listed mods, including those in your post tires and wheels are the most important.