stang06gt

thanks for the article sleeper! That was a great read. So it seems then the brackets and adjustable are for correcting suspension geometry after lowering the car. One separate question so on a mustang do you lower all four corners or do some people just lower the rear?

Sleeper_08

Some people do just lower the rear and they generally seem to use the Roush springs as you can buy them in pairs instead of the set of 4 for most springs.

JIM5.0

I remember old school hot-rodders used to jack up their rear ends instead of drop them. They did this to avoid the dreaded lower front hinge of the LCA. And since the rear of the car will always squat down, that too was another reason their cars had that hot-rod rake.

Too bad we modern car modders do not go for that hot-rod rake anymore. I personally like that jacked up rear end looks.

Norm Peterson

I always thought that jacked up rear ends was so you could fit bigger rear tires, especially if they stuck out past the sheetmetal.

I like a little rake - the S197 as delivered is pretty good in this respect. I would not want much more, and I definitely don't want less either from looking at it from the outside or from inside looking out over the hoodline. The taildragger stance hasn't done anything for me since before I had my license.


Norm

JIM5.0

Yes, I believe you are right about that too, well at least until they found out that the bigger tires negated some of the benefits of going with a deeper rear diff gear. That, and most street rodders realized that the massively big tires really only belonged on drag-strip only cars (funny cars, rails, and other extreme drag strip cars).

And of course getting into stuff that you know all to well about: roll centers and other rolling effects around mas and pressure centroids.
A too jacked up of a rear end might account well for handling pitch but might not be so good at handling roll for lateral G handling.