Mustang + Snow = Zero Traction

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12-02-2009, 04:19 PM

#21

digitalcos

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Join Date: Sep 2008

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Norm Peterson

If it had a handbrake or a footbrake that you can easily modulate, a little touch of rear brake only using it instead of the service brake will get the tail to rotate. Rather nicely, once you've had a little practice at it.

Note that this technique also works with RWD.

(SE Massachusetts and South Jersey experience)

Norm

If I remember correctly, it had a parking brake foot pedal with a separate brake release lever. Not something easily modulated, certainly not something I would have thought to turn to in the heat of the moment at least. Man, I did like that car's engine though. It had the 3800. Would launch like a **** when the light turned green.

12-03-2009, 08:34 AM

#22

mtyson227

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Join Date: Oct 2009

Location: PA

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My used 17" Silver Bullets arrived yesterday and I am going to be putting a set of these on them:
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires....ar=Convertible

12-03-2009, 10:36 AM

#23

Blacksmoke

The Paranoid One

Join Date: Apr 2006

Location: Texas

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Question still not answered.... why NO use chains?
Why is this a no no?

12-03-2009, 06:48 PM

#24

Margarita Girl

Is the tide gonna reach my chair?

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Nuke

+1 on the winter beater, but you can find an old bucket for a few hundred bucks as long as it runs and has heat and, if you dump it in a ditch or threw a fence, you won't give much of a hoot. Save the Stang if you can afford to.

+1 winter unit. I put the vert in the garage and drive a Subaru.

12-03-2009, 06:57 PM

#25

Norm Peterson

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RE: chains

It's in the manual. They are approved for use on the car, but only on the 16" tires (2008 Owner's Manual). Aluminum wheels may be damaged by them, and there is specific warning against using them with either the 17" or 18" tires. There's a few other things mentioned.

Norm

Last edited by Norm Peterson; 12-03-2009 at 07:32 PM.