black S197

Steeda's tubular front radiator support is the only one on the market today that allows you to maintain your front swaybar, and reduce weight at the same time.

http://www.stangsuspension.com/store...idproduct=1543

sonnier

I wonder if this would be suitable for the track (HPDEs).

Sam Strano

I can't say it's not... I wouldn't do it. We have BIG front bars even if you have a stock one which is 34mm on a GT. There is a LOT of load going through there, and it's not a risk I'm willing to take on a car that sees greater than average loads @ HPDE's, maybe on R-comps.

sonnier

That's enough convincing for me.

Dex

it says in there that its a must for racers.

what load? only thing it sits on is a radiator and holds up your sway bars. I replaced mine with HP Performance's setup. i had to move the radiator up

Sam Strano

A must for drag racers.... "A Must for any Hardcore Drag strip enthusist" (and they spelled enthusiastwrong.

Different strokes for different folks. It has to do with the swaybar mounting, that's why most require you to lose your front bar (not a road racing or handling benefit). The front bar is big, and has so much load that I've seen two interesting things happen already. One car ripped the mounting bolts from the support, another ripped the mounting ears off the struts because of the loads involved.

Sleeper_08

I'm with Sam on this one. When the car rolls the anti-roll bar resists the rolling of the body so if this mount is where the load is transferred back into the body then it had better be pretty substantial, especialy for a car as front end heavy as a Mustang.

A long time ago I had a similar experience with an Alfa and ripped the front mounts out of the body when we put a bigger font bar in. Fortunately nobody got hurt.

Sam Strano

Not to beat a dead horse here.... but a stock Mustang GT can, even on really good street tires and not even R-compound tires pull the inside front wheel off the ground when cornering because of the bar's rate (and bigger bars put more pounding on the mounts).