Gotta love the rake! I have a pretty big rake and my handling is awesome handles like a slot car. I used 5 leaf springs in the rear, it gave my car a nice strong lift. When I took out the other springs I could push them to the ground by stepping on them with no effort. Rake it up!

 

those of you who claim your car handles fine with a fat rake going on surely must agree with simple physics...a car with a lower center of gravity will handle better. ever wonder why indy/nascar cars are slammed to the ground...doesnt take a rocket scientist...

 

All 4 of my tires are at least 1 inch inside my wheel wells.

 

My car doesn't handle like a slot car, yours definitely does not. It takes a lot of work to get any 40 year old car to handle that well, and lifting the rear is going in the wrong direction. Take your car out to a really twisty back road and see how fast you can take 20mph corners. Then go drive the same road in a modern car.

Also, 5 leaf springs have nothing to do with ride height. It's the spring arch that determines ride height, not the number of leafs in the spring.

 

id just agree to disagree. He probably has not driven anything that has excellent suspension.

having driven a prowler, 360 modena & gallardo i can promise you that the car does not handle like a slot car.

My dads '98 camaro handles extremelly well and i wouldnt even consider it a slot car haha. To get it to handle the way it does theres literally a 1" bar as front sway bar, a rear sway bar and then 2 more forming an X that goes front to rear and some bilstein shocks. even then the best you can do is a 90* turn at 40 and you still have probably 2" of body roll but no sliding.

 

65rangoon, who are you responding to? This?


I'm lost

 

to james & star goin about the handling of their cars and 1 saying it handles awesome with a rake and the other saying it wont.

 

lets all just agree that you don't see track racers driving the road tracks with a rake for a reason...hmmm i wonder why?? im sure its fine for drag but if you really think rake gives you superior handling then you never took high school physics



lol, oh now i see which post you were referencing rag haha, i didnt catch this bold statement the first read through

 

you guys really wouldn't like to see the ride height on my car, I still have lifter shackles in the rear and the front is sitting mighty high as well.

but you can't flame me, the PO is the one that did all that, I just haven't had the money to redo it all.

 

Don't be bitter , I put quite a bit of work into my car to get it to handle like it does with the rake, it most definitely is not stock. any who The rake is sick and thats all there is to it, oh and I liked your nascar/indy statement , I won't disagree with you but I don't plan on driving my Mustang at a circle track @ 200mph anyway.

Oh yeah and the leaf comment was most geared toward the sagging of his leafs, my 5 leafs don't sag and in the process the arc on them gave me lift in the rear... to be more specific?