25 lb weight in passenger front wheel well

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12-02-2009, 02:39 PM

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beek

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Thank you for all of your responses. I think we are getting a little off track. That msrp price is what Ford wants for the replacement part. Here is a pic. Look just to the right of the hub. It's black and says "caution 25 lbs" on it.

12-02-2009, 05:10 PM

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lxman1

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Looks like a vert chassis stiffener. It is to keep the front wheels on the ground when launching

12-02-2009, 07:05 PM

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beek

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I wish I had to worry about keeping the front end on the ground when launching. Maybe someday that will be an issue (must have more horsepower).

Thanks for the reply.

12-02-2009, 07:57 PM

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BlackMage

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ok this is cool lol kinda. im gona have to check my brothers 96 vert. any ideas if its on gt's and verts? or just gt's or verts? very interesting.

12-02-2009, 08:56 PM

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5.0stang123

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What the **** is the point of this, how does it stiffen a chassis by adding weight to the front all I can see in this would be to make the car slower and handle worse, like a mustang needs more weight to the front......

12-02-2009, 10:22 PM

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Everything I've read says it’s a counter weight designed to stop or dampen out cowl shake at certain speeds, and that it seems like most people that have removed it and say they notice no difference between the before and after.

This may help also.
http://www.theturboforums.com/smf/in...topic=129534.0

http://www.stangnet.com/mustang-foru...le-weight.html

http://forums.corral.net/forums/show....php?t=1145708

12-03-2009, 10:21 PM

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beek

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Thanks to all of you who have responded to this post. Special thanks to Almost Stock for those links. It looks like it has no real value, so it's time for it to go. Reading some of the post had me howling!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks again for everyone's help.

12-05-2009, 07:03 PM

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Eight433

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Quote:

Originally Posted by mustangsneverdie

yea I took over 300 lbs. to the scrapyard last wed. and all I only got $18 lol

yup. I believe 120 bucks a ton would be a GOOD price at a yard right now. That is 6 cents per pound if my math serves me. Might be a little more if it is one piece of clean steel. I just took in 86 lbs of aluminum wheels and only got about 55 bucks.

as for the weight, it seems to me like it was an answer to a question never asked or a solution to a problem that was not there.

Last edited by Eight433; 12-05-2009 at 07:05 PM.

12-05-2009, 11:40 PM

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Shelty

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I'm gonna have to check my vert now....

I dunno if its still there, mine was wrecked once in the front, all was fixed right, but I never noticed a counter weight