How well can a Fox Body handle?

FastDriver · Apr 4, 2011

In answer to the thread title: http://www.maximummotorsports.com/content/articles/pdf/Slalom.pdf

That's how well a mustang can handle. That's the Road & Track box, not the Maximum Grip box, too.

DocG · Apr 4, 2011

FastDriver said:
In answer to the thread title: http://www.maximummotorsports.com/content/articles/pdf/Slalom.pdf

That's how well a mustang can handle. That's the Road & Track box, not the Maximum Grip box, too.

I always love looking at that article.

Keep in mind what level of comfort you might want to retain though too. My car is a very very harsh ride. I bought mine with all the suspension mods already and couldn't pass up the deal, but I do not use it as a road race car.

GroverDill · Apr 4, 2011

I have most of the stuff and really if not a serious track player it is likely overkill. I know for a fact in my case it is, but it is already on so what the hell.

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If I could go back in time I would have done regular springs VS. coilovers and passed on the K member.

DocG · Apr 4, 2011

That really makes me feel the need to clean up underneath mine! Most of my components are at least 6 years old so they don't look nearly as pretty. Every time I take stuff apart though I clean it and paint it. Just haven't had to take the rear apart yet.

With the torque arm bar, it took some luck to get the driveshaft out.

fivespeedsteed · Apr 4, 2011

my 90 gt has almost a road and track box, its missing the panhard bar, solid steering shaft. my cars parts list:

* MM Road & Track Springs
* MM Caster/Camber Plates
* Bilstein HD struts
* Bilstein HD shocks
* Front and rear Urethane Spring Isolators
* Urethane Pinion Snubber (solid axle Mustangs)
* Griggs lower subframe connectors
* MM 4-Point K-Member Brace
* MM Extreme-duty Rear Lower Control Arms (adjustable, w/sway bar mount)
* MM Solid Steering rack Bushings
* Front Swaybar bushings
* Front Swaybar end links
* Front control arm bushings, urethane

that and a 5 lug swap, and new upper control arm bushings, poly motor and trans mounts, and all new moog balljoints and tie rods.

car handles great. i actually havent turned it as hard as i think it will go, since entering a turn much faster than you should is a different experience. but it handles like its on rails. not like a built corvette or M3 (they have immaculate geometry) but enough to be fun.

Flavadave4 · Apr 4, 2011

Where the heck is "Shanolincrane" or what ever his name is? He usually can talk all day about Fox suspension parts.

ID89GT · Apr 4, 2011

I want to do a strictly street setup for my coupe. So basically a MM road and track kit is what I should base what I want off of then?

ID89GT · Apr 4, 2011

Flavadave4 said:
Where the heck is "Shanolincrane" or what ever his name is? He usually can talk all day about Fox suspension parts.

He is banned I believe.

rbonella · Apr 4, 2011

ID89GT said:
I want to do a strictly street setup for my coupe. So basically a MM road and track kit is what I should base what I want off of then?

Just contact MM and they will achieve your wants/goals with the car...whether its the entire road and track kit, or then piecing appropriate parts together for your needs. I personally think the entire road and track kit is over-kill for a strickly street application and many times that route is less enjoyable and harder to live with on the street....I've been there lol but to each their own

fivespeedsteed · Apr 4, 2011

ID89GT said:
I want to do a strictly street setup for my coupe. So basically a MM road and track kit is what I should base what I want off of then?

yes. the mm road and track box in its entirety makes a very fun, very predictable car that rides quite nice for a 20 year old lowered mustang.

Flavadave4 said:
Where the heck is "Shanolincrane" or what ever his name is? He usually can talk all day about Fox suspension parts.

banned for 3 months. should be back in a couple. fox mustangs arent the ideal handling platform, there are cars out there with better geometry, and he would acknowledge that. but fox mustangs are quite cheap to modify. if you find a 3500 dollar running 5.0 fox, and put a road and track box on it, the k3200 brake kit or whatever it is from ford racing that gave you cobra brakes, and a trick flow top end kit on it, along with the other odds and ends (each of those kits is 2200-2500 dollars) you would have quite the impressive foxbody. thats just if you buy kits, you can do better by piecing them all together. that math works out to be a little over 10 grand. meaning 15k will be more than enough all said and done to build quite a weekend warrior. sure zo6 vettes and m3s handle better, but you gotta pay 20+k to get the car in the first place

rbonella said:
Just contact MM and they will achieve your wants/goals with the car...whether its the entire road and track kit, or then piecing appropriate parts together for your needs. I personally think the entire road and track kit is over-kill for a strickly street application and many times that route is less enjoyable and harder to live with on the street....I've been there lol but to each their own

i agree, mm is a great bunch of guys, they will talk to you plenty on the phone about your setup and help out in any way possible. however, i would say that the road and track kit is very up to par on its street etiquite. it rides great. i tried the less expensive route first (at one point i had tokico blue shocks and struts, c springs, subframes, ect, the essentials) and the car rode like a dump truck. i set aside most of the road and track box components and did them all at once and it was like driving a new car.

FastDriver · Apr 5, 2011

Can anyone tell me which thread got Shaolincrane suspended? I'll see what I can do.

What is the trick setup on a C5 Corvette? I'd really like to have a weekend warrior, myself.

Chris

fivespeedsteed · Apr 5, 2011

i cant search for his name in the members list. if you can get me to his profile i can find it

stykthyn · Apr 5, 2011

Shaolin didn't get banned over a thread, it started there and spilled over into private messages.

BlackGT89 · Apr 5, 2011

I've often wondered if anyone on Stangnet ever did Autocross with their Stang, and if so, how successful they were. Around here the local Autocross tracks are set up really tight, giving the roller skate cars (MG Miget, Bugeye Sprites, Formula Fords etc.) the edge. But the SCCA tracks are a little looser, so to speak, and a correctly setup Fox should pretty well.

fivespeedsteed · Apr 5, 2011

foxes are okay for open track events and auto crosses. go check corral for this type of stuff, theres a special forum for autox/road racing

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