Building Suspension To Cover It All?

[GT Drifter]

From what I see people always focus on one of two things when doing the suspensions on their Mustangs. It's either set up for the drag strip or for the twisty track.
Now my question is why not build a suspension that can work on the drag strip, the twisty track and the street.

I'm thinking a coil over conversion at all 4 corners, full length sub frame connectors, strut braces, caster/camber plates, front control arms and 4 new rear control arms. Any opinions on what parts to use?
What else should be changed?

 

[GT Drifter]

No one has any opinions?

 

[lang williams]

i was going to post a similar question about the effects of eibach lowering springs on launching traction. i have 4 cyl springs on the car now which is ok for the strip but i want less body role, but i dont want to just sit an spin either.

 

[Blandnuts]

Somethings to think about

When going serious, you can't have the best of both worlds. If you want to have fun, I'd suggest running a suspension more geared for handling then dragracing. You can drag a corner car but you can't corner a drag car.


Anyways, how much are you looking to spend? What are you mostly interested in drag/twisties? How mechanical are you?



Fred

 

[Fast63]

I did some very basic changes to mine that helped a TON for corners and seems to launch a little better than the stock setup, and that is the following:

Aftermarket rear control arms, all 4 arms, bottoms with polyurethane bushings
Poyurethane bushings everywhere on the front with stock arms and sway bar
FRPP C-springs
Subframe connectors

And I think that's about all I did

 

[GT Drifter]

Somethings to think about

When going serious, you can't have the best of both worlds. If you want to have fun, I'd suggest running a suspension more geared for handling then dragracing. You can drag a corner car but you can't corner a drag car.


Anyways, how much are you looking to spend? What are you mostly interested in drag/twisties? How mechanical are you?



Fred

I'm more of a fan of twisties but dragging once in a while is fun.
I don't mind spending cash on a good set up but it would likely be something done piece by piece.
What do you mean by mechanical? I will be installing the parts myself, that's for sure.

 

[GT Drifter]

This was posted over on the Corral and I think the set up MM told him sounds pretty good.

I hear you as I am trying to do the exact same thing...hey I want it all also.

First thing is first, pick one of the two that seem to stand above the rest. Griggs or Maximum Motorsports. In my case I chose to go with MM and will be using their parts on my '92. I called and spoke to Jason in their tech department and explained eactly what I wanted from my car, weekend toy thing, 99% street driven, high horsepower (turbo stroker motor) and I don't want to be beat to death.

They recommended to stiffen the entire car; k-member brace, full-length subframe connectors, etc. They also suggested to go with the their heavy duty TA, panhard bar, extreme adjustable lowers, camber/caster plates, coil over on the front (only not the rear), tubular a-arms (but skip the k-member and use stock). They told me with all this to skip the upper conrol arms and just yank them along with the quad-shocks, which I already did.

anyway, that is what I am going with, but the car is not running so I cannot give any real world input.

not sure if that helps any or not.

 

[Blandnuts]

Well, going with MM parts will let you build your car up peice by piece.

Other aftermarket A-arms are lighter than MM, but you can do twisties with the MM and not worry about them breaking. I would also stick with their coilovers in the front. You'll have a choice between bilsteins and Koni (can't help you on that one).

With the rear control arms, this is where you should choose what you like the most. You went with twisties, so I'd say MM again. Here's the site so you can read about why you should choose their product . Goto the site, products, rear suspension, upper control arms and then lower control arms. http://www.maximummotorsports.com/

When I asked about how mechanical you are I was referring to the "4 corner coil overs" and possible adjustable control arms. That's a lot of things to consider and a lot of adjustability in the rear (pinion angle). This is something more for a serious racer, but you could still do it ( might be over kill though).

I might be a little bias but I'd pretty much tell you to go MM for everything. Griggs is good too, but I have no personal experience with them. For the braces like subframes you could go a different brand and shouldn't have a problem.


Corner-carvers has some really good info for turns and what products not to buy.





Fred

 

[GT Drifter]

Thanks for the info.

My background with auto mechanics is with Jeeps so dialing in pinion angle and adjusting things correctly is something I'm use too.