What causes sloppy handling??

[Opentracker]

I have done several suspensions on Fairlane's. We work close with several NHRA drag teams and they want the best of the best and they like Fairlane's. The kit below is a good street kit for your car. The big front sway bar will help with the body roll, the roller perches will smooth out the ride and give it better handling, the steering kit comes with a roller idler arm. I have a kit much like this on my 68 Ranchero and it drives great. I'll be glad to help. FYI, we aslo do Falcons. We can put together kits for early Falcons too. It's not that hard to find the parts if you know where to look.


1/4" Poly coil spring insulators
560 1" drop coil springs
Street Upper arms
Street Lower arms
Roller spring perches
Steering kit with roller idler arm
Strut rod bushings
KYB Front shocks
Grab-A-Track rear shocks
1 1/8" front sway bar kit
4.5 Mid eye 1" drop leaf springs with new U-Bolt, front eye bolt and rear shackle kit
Sub frames



John

 

[65fastbackresto]

John wont steer ya wrong man

Look at my signature, got most of my stuff from him, he is good guy.

 

[DJCarbine]

If the suspension work doesn't help, alcohol is also a leading cause of unstable/wavering handling.

A mild/stock rebuild of critical suspension components will do wonders.

Best way is to jack up the car and start checking things. Look for worn bushings, 40 year old springs, and excessive play.

 

[viperx6x9x]

well the 40 year old springs is a given. This car has lived within 2 blocks of its current location since it came from the dealer. So everything that has been upgraded, i did. I guarantee nothing has ever been touched on steering or suspension except for trying out some steering boxes from other parts cars we had. (none of em worked well).

Also maybe this is the worn out springs causing this, i dont know how to determine the true ride heigth of this thing, but i don't want it to get any lower. i already can barely clear speed bumps with the headers. Granted their rediculously oversized long tubes and im switching to shorties later cuz they just annoy me. But i can barely slide under the thing even without a creeper to look at stuff, and im a pretty skinny guy. I don't know how low those cars generally sat back then, my family is second owner and we got it in 89.

Sorry i get to drawing things out guys, il try to keep things shorter. Question is I need to find out somehow what ride heigth is supposed to be stock to determine if i need any drop components. If a drop will put it where it is, (il get dad to measure its in texas) then i think that will do just fine.

Also i see on some of the old shelby's they have those air splitters below the bumper on the front for aerodynamics. Does that stuff help handling at all, and if so Do they make anything for the fairlanes. i know they made a fairlane/torino cobra and a talladega that year but don't recall if they had any such components on them.

Oh and FYI if you can get us what we want you might be selling some of this stuff twice. Good buddy of mine runs a 70 cyclone gt and we often put common parts on these cars. Only major difference (other than body) is Cyclone has a 351c, Fairlane has 302w.

 

[viperx6x9x]

another idea. Do you guys run power steering or is manual easier to keep tight. I'm still looking into this rack and pinnion setup my friend's been telling me about as well. So many options and i dont know which way to go right now.

 

[skywalker]

The real reason? Reeeeeeally old "technology" that, and the fact that the Mustang wasn't originally supposed to tear up the track like a newer GT/Cobra can.

The accuracy of this statement is poor. The technology, handling wise, in a newer mustang is really not that much more advanced to be honest. The only major advance is Rack and Pinion steering - which existed in the 1960s. Macpherson struts aren't necessarilly superior, and in fact have some major dis-advantages.

The big difference in a newer mustang is that is isn't 40 years old!