Lowering your 05/06 Mustang GT
06-26-2010, 05:29 PM
#431
4th Gear Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Mississippi
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Anybody try the steeda bolts? I found some $80 used and will be giving those a try.
http://www.steeda.com/products/steed..._adjusters.php
Don't know why they want $200 for those. Probably to make the $300 plates look more reasonable?
http://www.steeda.com/products/steed..._adjusters.php
Don't know why they want $200 for those. Probably to make the $300 plates look more reasonable?
06-27-2010, 01:09 AM
#432
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Acworth, GA
Posts: 12,260
When I was initially looking into lowering my mustang I ended up purchasing the Eibach camber bolts. Later I changed my mind and decided to get Steeda Upper strut mounts instead even though I already had the Eibach ones in hand. If anyone is interested in the camber bolts pm me or something. I'm not activily trying to sell them, but if someone needs them I'd be willing to sell them for $20 or so plus shipping (they sell for $27.50 before shipping). They were never on the car and are still in the original box.
andretti
andretti
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/EIB-5-81260K/
I paid that price for mine...
06-27-2010, 09:52 AM
#433
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Missouri
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wow...yep thats them...I paid $27 for them. ouch. http://www.stranoparts.com/partdetai...D=35&ModelID=5
06-27-2010, 09:58 AM
#434
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wow...yep thats them...I paid $27 for them. ouch. http://www.stranoparts.com/partdetai...D=35&ModelID=5
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06-27-2010, 11:36 PM
#435
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: CA
Posts: 8
Hi everybody,
I just joined this forum and I want to improve the handling of my 05 mustang which I primarily drive on the street. I've been looking through a part of this thread and people are suggesting the best combo for springs and struts/shocks are the Eibach prokit and the Tokico D-spec, respectively. Is that still the general consensus?
Also, is it beneficial to buy roll bars or sway bars?
Thanks!
I just joined this forum and I want to improve the handling of my 05 mustang which I primarily drive on the street. I've been looking through a part of this thread and people are suggesting the best combo for springs and struts/shocks are the Eibach prokit and the Tokico D-spec, respectively. Is that still the general consensus?
Also, is it beneficial to buy roll bars or sway bars?
Thanks!
06-28-2010, 05:25 AM
#436
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: state of confusion
Posts: 7,635
Steeda Sports and Koni yellows seem to have become the currently preferred combination.
Maybe you mean anti-roll bar - a roll bar is something that you install inside the car to protect your noggin should the car go shiny side down. Anti-roll bar, "sway bar" (common usage but not really correct), stabilizer bar (sta-bar for short) all refer to the same thing. They are beneficial as long as you get them properly matched to the rest of your suspension and for what you're doing with the car. Bigger/stiffer/heavier is not always better.
Norm
Maybe you mean anti-roll bar - a roll bar is something that you install inside the car to protect your noggin should the car go shiny side down. Anti-roll bar, "sway bar" (common usage but not really correct), stabilizer bar (sta-bar for short) all refer to the same thing. They are beneficial as long as you get them properly matched to the rest of your suspension and for what you're doing with the car. Bigger/stiffer/heavier is not always better.
Norm
Last edited by Norm Peterson; 06-28-2010 at 05:33 AM.
06-29-2010, 12:47 AM
#437
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: CA
Posts: 8
Steeda Sports and Koni yellows seem to have become the currently preferred combination.
Maybe you mean anti-roll bar - a roll bar is something that you install inside the car to protect your noggin should the car go shiny side down. Anti-roll bar, "sway bar" (common usage but not really correct), stabilizer bar (sta-bar for short) all refer to the same thing. They are beneficial as long as you get them properly matched to the rest of your suspension and for what you're doing with the car. Bigger/stiffer/heavier is not always better.
Norm
Maybe you mean anti-roll bar - a roll bar is something that you install inside the car to protect your noggin should the car go shiny side down. Anti-roll bar, "sway bar" (common usage but not really correct), stabilizer bar (sta-bar for short) all refer to the same thing. They are beneficial as long as you get them properly matched to the rest of your suspension and for what you're doing with the car. Bigger/stiffer/heavier is not always better.
Norm
06-29-2010, 10:20 PM
#438
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: CA
Posts: 8
I'm sorry if it feelsl like I'm
this subject but I just want to be certain.
06-30-2010, 06:57 AM
#439
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Try to avoid confusing visual appearance with actual handling improvement. A little lowering might be good and a little more might still be OK, but it's quite possible to end up with too much drop and be sacrificing handling and other behavior instead of gaining any.
Koni "yellows" are easily adjustable without having to move anything other than the trunk carpeting in order to get at the adjustment 'stems' for the rears. They aren't the same as the older Konis (Reds? Classics?) which I think you did have to unbolt at least one end in order to adjust. FWIW, the adjustment **** for the "yellow" fronts does not fit into the space available at the rear shocks very well, though.
Norm
06-30-2010, 10:13 AM
#440
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: AZ
Posts: 8
I've heard a couple times not to go with the d-spec's. They supposedly adjust both rebound and compression rates with one adjuster, which makes no sense. I was told you should either go with shocks that have different adjusters for rebound and compression, or to go with rebound-only adjustable shocks.