Weight Reduction VS Hooking?

Hickfied · Sep 18, 2007

Let me start off in saying that the mods in my sig are on another stang. This one is also a 5 speed 4 banger.
I have done ALOT of weight reductions on it. I am also running a 275 Nitto DR on the back.
I can not hook at all! It just wants to spin! I can nail it from a dead stop and it will just sit there and spin, or if I am going about 10mph in 1st, I nail it and it gets sideways!
Before taking all the weight out, it would only spin on a 1-2 powershift.

I took out the front/rear crash bumpers, the glued sound deadening, all carpet, rear/passenger seats, entire center console, misc metal brackets, ac, front sway bar, misc items in the engine bay, and added manual doors.

jesus, I haven't had a 5spd 5.0 yet (only autos ) but GD how in the hell do you get the to hook up? I weight 300lbs I figured that would help a little!

I have lakewood 50/50s in the rear. would swaping my UCA and LCA as well as the eibach drag springs help me hook better?

Flavadave4 · Sep 18, 2007

Learn to feather the clutch, its not good for the clutch but its what it takes to get moving quick, you can't just dump it.

87foxstang · Sep 18, 2007

wait what do you have for a motor

Aliate X · Sep 18, 2007

nittos suck, thats your problem.

87foxstang · Sep 18, 2007

Aliate X said:
nittos suck, thats your problem.

i wouldnt say so, at least on the street, they hook good for the money and the mileage you get for them

Aliate X · Sep 18, 2007

87foxstang said:
i wouldnt say so, at least on the street, they hook good for the money and the mileage you get for them

I never had really a problem with my nittos until I got h/c/i, then they became pretty useless. On the track they were horrid. Swapped over to MT ET radials and never looked back.

edit - but yes they do get good miles and they are better than any other drag radial in the rain.

87foxstang · Sep 18, 2007

yea, i think theyre pretty good on the street, and i have heard theyre bad on the strip...i guess once you really build your engine they can be a problem

Hickfied · Sep 18, 2007

dudes, we are talking about 88 HORSE POWER!!! I was able to dump the clutch @ 3500 before and dead hook, now even @ 2000 I can't stop spinning! Even nailing it @ 5 mph, once it gets about 2500 it starts to spin! I seriously doubt it's the tire!

87foxstang · Sep 18, 2007

holy crap lol i didnt notice it was a 4 banger....how can you get no traction with 275 555r's, i get traction with my 245 555r's. I dont really have any useful input i guess lol.

Mustang78 · Sep 18, 2007

lower your tire PSI..or take off 2 spark plug wires so you dont have the whole 88 horses to light them suckers up! i would at least put in the passenger seat, what fun is it driving alone all the time? throw some cinder blocks in the back and call it a day..also get your car weighed at a truck stop, i'm curious..

~Mark~

SVT32VDOHC · Sep 19, 2007

I remember my friends 91 LX 4cyl auto wouldn't even spin the tires on a brake stand!!!!

samickguy15 · Sep 19, 2007

You can't be serious...Either you have a special edition magnesium super-lite mustang or you're feeding us a line of BS. My '93 LX 2.3-5speed takes a bit of persuasion to brake them loose with just a clutch drop. What's the real story here?

black92gt · Sep 19, 2007

Nittos do suck, mine break loose on the highway if I'm not careful, I will NEVER buy them again, MT ET Drags all the way..

smallstang393 · Sep 19, 2007

what kind of times does this car run?
this sounds kind of wierd that a 4 cyl is doing this

Aliate X · Sep 19, 2007

88rwhp and 973rwtq

SVT32VDOHC · Sep 19, 2007

samickguy15 said:
You can't be serious...Either you have a special edition magnesium super-lite mustang or you're feeding us a line of BS. My '93 LX 2.3-5speed takes a bit of persuasion to brake them loose with just a clutch drop. What's the real story here?

HAHAHAHA

h8my408 · Sep 19, 2007

i know what this issue is. he did the same thing i did when i owned a monster 4...

he installed a bleach kit. here's how i did mine.

complete washer resovior with motor (OMFG I TRIED 20 times to spell that word!!!)
lines running to each rear tirewell
a switch to activate the motor

call it nitrous for burnouts... bwa hahahaha

(dont try it, its extremely dangerous)

my advice:
convert your WOT switch, to a manual activated

Hickfied · Sep 19, 2007

This isn't BS. You can't really see them all that well since it rained a couple days ago, but the rubber starts at the bottom of the pic, and goes all the way to the top, and actually 2nd gear rubber is out of the picture. The darkest one in the center was today, but I let out of it cause it's fubaring my $150 tire.

Edit, I am stopped in the road and taking off, not pulling out of the gravel. The total length of rubber is 21ft on avg.

HISSIN50 · Sep 19, 2007

After seeing the title, I thought this was going to be about an anorexic prostitute.

As you were.

Mike85000 · Sep 19, 2007

I think you're problem is because it is single-trac and you're turning at the same time. Unloads the weight off the drive tire, viola, spins. I could lay rubber with my 60hp 1.3L Suzuki Samurai when the rear end was open and i cranked around a corner and laid on the gas.

How about you try not to "spin" the tires. By the looks of it, you are trying, because believe you mean, 88hp is not uncontrollable with 275 DRs.

My guess is if you are in a straight line and punch it from 10mph it doesn't do more than a chirp if you're lucky. 88hp is 88hp.

I launch of 245/60 Cooper Cobras with a 5.0L Stang, fresh posi, and it lays rubber, but only if i want it to

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