So, you are saying that Arning developed the drop as part of a complete performance suspension package for 4 or 5 cars? Well, since you can't find a Falcon with that set-up, and you can hardly find a Shelby with that drop only, I guess it is a moot point. Face it, Shelby is the only one who made the drop popular and did it to more cars in a year and a half than anybody else, therefore the term Shelby drop.Arning did develop the drop as part of a performance suspension package that did include IRS. Many 63 and 64 Falcons were tested on and it was these cars that the Mustang IRS was installed. 4 or 5 cars (all falcons but 1) got the original Ford IRS put under them.
I would be suprised if Arning was the first person to move an UCA. I think it is comical that people argue this. Ever heard of a gulstrand mod? http://www.pozziracing.com/first_gen_suspension_geome.htm#Re-located upper mount I guess this is a Arning drop as well. If arning did it to Falcons and Shebly did it to Mustangs, maybe it depends on what car it is done as to what to call it. Since mine are not done from any template, I'll call mine a Jones mod.
So, you are saying that Arning developed the drop as part of a complete performance suspension package for 4 or 5 cars?
McNamara huH?It was a test mule program that got axed under the watchful eye of the cost accountants at Ford. Which, incidentally, I am not tossing under the bus. After WW2 Ford knew it's P&L at the end of a year, but could not identify what the contribution margin was of any particular activity. Bob McNamera and crew fixed that before he got promoted to CEO and then five months later got asked to join the Kennedy White House.
So, in a way, I guess Republicans can blame McNamera for lack of an IRS in a production Mustang on him too.
the guldstrand mod is very similar to the shelby/arning/UCA drop but was done to the trans am camaros first at the end of the 68 season
That is why I brought it up. I thought somebody might want to correct me for calling it the Gulstrand mod and not the Arning mod. Arning is the inventor of moving the UCA.
Yes, we all understand that Arning came up with the original idea, but CS actually did it in a production car, and sold several thousand Shelby Drop cars that Gulstrand, or Arning were not able to do because they didn't have the maketing powers to make it happen.That is why I brought it up. I thought somebody might want to correct me for calling it the Gulstrand mod and not the Arning mod. Arning is the inventor of moving the UCA.
McNamara huH?He was a politician for Christ'sake and was pretty much up to his neck with concerns about the Vietnam war while he was in office. The Chevorlet Corvair was more of a concern back then than the Mustang.
I want to post this picture SO bad but I'm concerned somebody will get mad. So, I'll just post the link and say if you're offended by 'colorful' launguage don't click it.
You were warned.
http://www.javierzanetti.net/Handoyo/Pictures/070319 Special Olympics.jpg
Link no worky. . .
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