How To Guides

• Whiteline Street Commodores interview
  A video interview with Jim Gurieff by Street Commodores magazine - March 2007.

• Attention All Commodore Owners
  Installing Whitelines KPR002x adjustable
  panhard rod.

• Barred Up
  Suspension Upgrades for Project EVO
  Hot 4's magazine August 2008

• Brace Yourself - Fitting a custom strut brace.
  Explains the process of strut brace design and development along with some useful tech background.
  Hot 4's magazine June 2001.

• Calculating and Comparing Swaybar Link Compliance

• Castor Capers
  Installing and testing Whitelines KCA319, Subaru ant-lift castor kit

• Commodore VT-VX IRS rear toe link
  Whiteline is no longer developing a kit but read this to see how you can do your own.

• Effect of Anti-Lift Kit (ALK)
  How does a Whiteline Anti-lift kit work.
   

• Effect of Anti-Squat Adjustment in Solid Axle 4 Link Rear Suspension Systems.
  How to use adjustable arms to help improve traction or handling.

• Effect of Link Design in Anti – Roll Bar Assembly.
  Discusses effects of new series of anti-roll bar links which been developed to tackle the problem of excessive
  OEM link deflections and failure. Part numbers KLC28 rear, KLC30 front suit Subaru but data is relevant to other applications.

• Getting Into Coil Overs
  The pro's and con's of height adjustable spring and shock systems. From Hot4's Year 2000 Annual

• Hollow versus Solid Swaybars
  Comparison of the 2 separate design strategies and how they differ in
  practical use and manufacture.

• Asymmetric Swaybar Adjustment Using Adjustable Bars
  Taken from a July 2002 post to NASIOC Forums http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/ 
  Post is titled "3 Position Swaybar Really a 5-Position Bar??" and explains multi-hole swaybar adjustment, rate change and effects of asymmetric adjustment.

• Making It Stick - Part 4: More lessons in geometry
  Part 4 in the Comprehensive Guide to Suspension Tuning series reproduced from December 05 issue of Sport and Compact Car magazine.  Written by Mike Kojima.

• Making It Stick - Part 7: Damper Tuning
  Part 7 in the Comprehensive Guide to Suspension Tuning series reproduced from February 07 issue of Sport and Compact Car magazine.  Written by Mike Kojima.

• On Suspension
  How to get your car to carve up the corners.
  From Hot4's Magazine October 2002

• Rex on Rails - part 1
• Rex on Rails - part 2
• Rex on Rails - part 3
• Rex on Rails - part 4
• Rex on Rails - part 5  
  How to extract the best possible handling from your Subaru WRX's suspension.
  An AutoSpeed article.

• Shock Therapy
  Setting up for track work, we transformed an ARC gravel-spec STi into a road rally beast.

• Skid Marks - 1
  Skid marks, or lack of.
  Suspension sense, what does it mean?

• Skid Marks - 2
  Suspension modifications and the
  "value for money" equation

• Skid Marks - 3
  Suspension setup problems diagnosis.
  A table of common problems and
  symptoms.

• Skid Marks - 4
  Springs....How LOW can you go?

• Skid Marks - 5
  To kit or not to kit? Suspension kits
  are often the answer

• Skid pan test results using Whiteline BSR36Z on MY03 WRX.
  Conclusion: Fitting a BSF36Z larger Whiteline rear bar significantly increases total grip resulting in higher cornering speeds. Larger bars DO NOT simply change the handling bias as some people think, they can actually improve handling and INCREASE grip.

• Strutin Round
  How to fit a rear strut brace. Hot4s and Performance magazine March 2006

• Suspension Secrets - Part 1 
  We talk to one of Australia's leading suspension gurus regarding front-wheel-drive vehicles...  Autopseed - issue 4/2/02, by Michael Knowling, Pix by Julian Edgar 

    (Adobe Acrobat Reader required)  

• Suspension Secrets - Part-2    
  Part 2 of Suspension Secrets by...  Autopseed - issue 13/2/02, by Michael Knowling, Pix by Julian Edgar 

• Suspension Secrets - Part-3    
  Part 3 of Suspension Secrets by...  Autopseed - issue 19/2/02, by Michael Knowling, Pix by Julian Edgar 

• Swaybar Dia. Conversion Chart
  Handy table in PDF format that shows percentage change in roll stiffness 
  when changing swaybar diameter. 

  (Adobe Acrobat Reader required)  

• Swaybars - How to Fit to Rear of WRX  (Greek Text)
  Reproduced from Power Magazine - Greece, November 2002.

• Sway My Way - Swaybars
  Reproduced from: Zoom Magazine, Issue 92
   

• Testing Whiteline Products (Greek Text)
  Reproduced from Power Magazine - Greece, November 2002.

• The Best Tunned WRX's in Greece (Greek text)
  A review of the best 2 cars in Greece according to Power magazines performance car shoot out.
  Reproduced from Power Magazine - Greece, September 2003.
   

• Traction
  Getting a front-wheel-drive car to launch.
  Effective setup tips for drag racing front wheel drive performance 4's. Featuring Ben Ellis's Starlet Gti.

• WRX at the apex - Suspension Test Results
  How do you pick pick suspension for a WRX? Hot 4's magazine asked this question so we arranged a test day to find the answer. Read the results, what does each component do?
  Hot 4's magazine Mar 2001