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Old Dec 10, 2004 | 10:53 PM
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dodgestang, I'm new at this so bare with me. What would you consider a "real performance setup" and why? I'm looking more at a Road Racing setup than say a drag.
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The question is hard to answer without knowing your budget, skill level, track needs, and long terms plans for the car.

Griggs makes a great suspension setup for road racing ( http://www.griggsracing.com/ ) but it requires modifications to the car and at the same time I know guys that opentrack race competitively with stock style parts: boxed in stock lower control arms, roller spring perches, adjustable strut rods, and stock upper arms (some with a relocated ball-joint aka negative wedge). I run stock upper (w/ shelby mod) and stock lower control arms in my 65 with roller perches, heim joint adjustable strut rods, 620 springs, 1 1/8 sway bar and get IMO excellent road handling, I also use a flaming river 16:1 stock style steering box, 235 45 17 tires in the front, and an aggressive weekend warrior type alignment spec.

These are basically the 2 extremes in cost...doing a total conversion or adding strategically selected upgrades to optimize the stock style suspension. You can also consider tubular (Global West, TCP, and even cobra auto to some extent).
Old Dec 11, 2004 | 02:34 AM
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I see what your saying! Now that I've read your last post. The more I thought about what I really want in a suspension the more I realized that the track might be aways off. I think what I'm looking for is a car that handles like it rolled of the show room floor. That might be asking to much, but hey I'm new.
As far as money goes I was looking at spending $2-3 grand. I've been looking all over the net and now I'm just confused. Here are some of the sites I've been too.
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http://www.heidts.com/index.html
http://www.geocities.com/ctmengineering/mustanghome.htm
http://www.stangsuspension.com/store...namicIndex.asp
http://www.pro-motorsports.com/default.asp
http://mustangsplus.com/
Old Dec 11, 2004 | 10:06 AM
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If you want right off the showroom floor the grab a track stuff from Mustang plus (and available from many other places) is fine. You can put in all new suspension and steering compenents for abotu $1000 and then spend some on a new or rebuild steering box ($250-$500) and then do 'smart' upgrades. I think the www.streetortrack.com strut rods (about $200 IIRC) are an excellent immediate upgrade since they make the car easier to align and take a lot of deflection out of the suspension.
Old Dec 12, 2004 | 06:30 PM
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i have my front end lowered and it helps a lot.
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