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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.
Thanks
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.
Thanks
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).
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.
thanks
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/
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.
thanks
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/
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.
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