bluebeastsrt

Maybe you two will know but do lowering springs help or hurt our mustang? The drop on coilovers helped the neon but were talking apples to oranges (SRT-4 to Mustang)

crash

It's my understanding that lowering springs hurt e.t. There's an article between a '01 cobra vs '01 Bullitt vs '04 Mach. The Bullitt ran a better et because the cobra had lowering springs. I'll dig up the article later

Stone629

It depends on the car. Some cars sit too high imo, and bob up and down on the launch. Dropping it too much can eliminate too much weight transfer (depending on the cars balance, etc). My old Z28 launched just fine with a 2" drop, but my cousins 96 Cobra struggles with the same amount of drop. It all depends.

ctgreddy

Agreed, depends on the car. Stock mustang rear springs are the best for drag times. If you want it lower with a good drag setup just cut the spring. For the fronts a fox 4cyl spring is the cheapest setup and will drop the car plus give good weight transfer. Otherwise coil overs up front with a spring set up for drag. The eibach drag springs and stuff are not really worth it when you can get the same benefit from having 4cyl front springs, and also blue invest in an air bag to put in the right rear spring, it'll help with how all the body seems to wanna twist and put the power to the right rear instead of destributing it equally inthe back.

justinschmidt1

Yea, everyone laughs at me when I say all you need is a real slick on a v6 wheel to cut good 60 foots. Screw the suspension mods.

I do 1.6x with crap suspension and an auto with slicks on v6 wheels.

ctgreddy

^ yup if you've got the power you can make a fairly stock suspension setup work pretty good on a stang as long as you've got the tire.

S8ER01Z

You weren't kidding... hahahaha

drop a second off that and you have a fair guess.

justinschmidt1

Lowering springs hurt ET usually cause of weight transfer but you also have to think about this.


With a softer spring, energy is going into weight transfer rather then the car moving so if you have stiffer springs and a full slick that hooks, would the car still be slower on lowering springs?

Ive seen 1.4x 60 foots on eibach pro kit lowering springs with a full slick and a 6k clutch drop lol.

ctgreddy

the gto ran 13.1's at 107 i believe all day. not bad for just having lm1's welded in and a cai.