stang 60ft questions

[Allforspeed]

all stock suspension with polyurethane isolators and poly control arm bushings, 1989 GT, 5 spd, street tires, stock gears, all bolt ons, 100 shot of nitrous, MAC lower control arms

question is:

1. will installing BBK 1.5 inch lowering springs in the front only make a noticable difference in my 60 ft times, probably for the worse?

2. will removing my front sway bar make any difference also in my set up?

 

[Dbeck002]

Removing the front sway bar helped me a SH1TLOAD with launches. Then again i have a built rear suspension. But remember the front sway bar wants to pick both wheels up off the ground even if just one starts to rise. The swaybar also weighs a bit, its solid steel 1 inch thick bar. It handles like a bus but can this sucker launch.

 

[5spd GT]

If your going to remove the sway bar just keep it at the track when you do it.

Lowering the car will generally hurt your launch because you have less weight transfer to the rear wheels upon launch or when you need traction.

Drag radials would be a nice investment for you...

 

[Allforspeed]

i got the bbk springs for free, so i was thinking that i could remove the swaybar and then install the springs since my rear springs are stock, the car should handle about how it does stock, but look cooler, be about 15lb lighter and maybe launch better

what do you guys think about this? if i'm totally wrong i dont care since the springs were free anyway, does it even matter with stock gears?

Dbekc how bad does the car handle without the front sway bar?do you think the stiffer springs would offset this?

DR's would be a nice investment also, but i commute tons in my car (hence the stock gears and mufflers they are kind of expensive also

 

[notchback]

keep the swaybar on it...unless your gonna just pull it off at the track and then put it back on, it's not worth the handling you lose

the only way you can really hook and keep street tires on it w/ nitrous is to launch off idle and coax it out of the hole.

towards the middle to top of first, then nail it.

but your probably still gonna break loose.

bottom line is you need tires....but keep trying...i had an aod 'vert w/ 3.73's and 100 shot running 13.60's on street tires

i would lca's b4 dumping the swaybar

 

[Allforspeed]

so you dont think that the bbk springs will stiffen the front up that i can take the sway bar off? keep in mind that my rear springs are just stock.

coud i just disconnect one end of the swaybar and drive around without fully taking the swaybar off just to see how much it affects my handling?

 

[Allforspeed]

i'm not really expecting the car to 60ft well on street tires and stock gears, i just dont want to do something that will make it worse than it already is since it already leaves the line so badly

 

[Allforspeed]

bump

 

[Modular2v]

get rid of the sway bar it doesnt effect handeling to bad....

 

[Allforspeed]

now i got two different opinions on the sway bar thing?? those of you who run your car chip in and let me know how bad it is for real! not planning to road race this thing but definately dont want it handlin worse than it does stock? compared to my porshce it handles like a bus already!

is there any reason i couldn't just disconnect one side of the sway bar nad leave it on the car to see if personally like the handling or not? has anyone done this? will anything mentioned even make a noticable difference on street tires on the street?

 

[jaymac]

compared to my porshce

Well ooh-la-la!!!
ANyway, matter of opion. Take an afternoon, remove the whole swaybar, drive around the rest of the day, and decide for yourself. Putting in lower springs in the front to offset the absence of the swaybar will negate the swaybar removal anyway as you will lose weight transfer, thus hurting your launch. If I were you, I would put 4 cyl. springs in (for about a 1" drop), run the swaybar on the street, and lose it at the track if you really want to> This would greatly help your launch, and your 60'.
And if you think DR's are so expensive, why don't you just sell your "Porsche" and invest in a good set of tires, subframes, skinnies, adjustable 10-way coilovers, upper and lower control arms, new axles, traction lock, gears, Roll control, and a whole new motor/blower combo while you're at it

 

[a_k]

I had my swaybar off for a few days of daily driving since i needed new bushings. anyway it sucks, I wouldn't do it unless you are driving down the track, then put it back on when you leave. It made my car corner like my friends 86 caprice....

 

[notchback]

i hated my car when i took the swaybar off it.

but it's not comparing apples to apples, i had slicks and skinnies as well, w/ the slicks as bias-ply and the skinnies radials. so the handling was already crap, dumping the swaybar really compounded it ...BADLY i also had southsides which suck monkey balls

but i never put it back on , and the rear i removed as well

but this wasn't a daily driver


it's so little work just dump it like jaymac said, if you hate it put it back on

probably 20 minutes?

 

[Allforspeed]

the porsche is a 1966 912 me and my dad got for 3000$ about 5 years ago in a big box and have been building it up since then, now its a Porsche club track car, so it handles pretty damn well, but its not a real big-baller car (pops collar and checks rolex....)

i'll probably do just that, remove it and see, i didn't know that 4 cyl springs dropped the v8 car 1 inch?!? thats pretty sweet, since they are longer and softer=lower and better launches, if the bbk's and no sway bar suck maybe i'll do that


thanks everybody, i'll post back once its done to let yall know if it made any difference

 

[jaymac]

BBK's and no sway bar will mose likely suck ass, for all-purpose use, anyway...