My 66 Mustang is pretty much a clean canvas at this point. All the suspension components are in excellent shape and basically stock. I have been edumacating myself some what on suspensions with a book written by a guy named Bob Bolles. The name of the book is something like "Stock Car Suspension Set ups" (book is back up someplace after last years house fire), so I have some idea what's going on. Yes, I do hang out on a Mustang forum and have read a lot and picked other peoples minds as well but I thought it would be interesting to broaden the field and see what guys here think or have to say. Next, this is a street car. As much as I'd love to try some sort of open track event, I don't see it happening right now. If some one were to drive my car, I'd like it to feel somewhat like a stocker in normal driving, meaning not having springs or shocks from a dump truck. I don't subscribe to that theory, I believe in letting the suspension do what it's suppose to with good geometry and suprise them with how well it handles when asked to do so. I also subscribe to the KISS theory and to use what you have, I'm not into bling.
So now I have given you a little background let me tell you my ideas, thoughts. Ideally I would like to use Global West UCA. I think they nailed it. My problem with them is the cost, do I really need them and added incidentals. The problem I'm concerned is with spindles. Unless you stick with 65-66 spindles, later model spindles which are stronger and which a lot of guys use them for disk brakes, which I was planning on doing, cause a really bad bump steer issue to the point of being unsafe. While I could use a bump steer kit, this adds money and also I'm not crazy of using Heim joints on the street being exposed to road grime and so on.
I'm leaning toward just lowering the stock UCA 1". As I understand, there's not a significant to be gained in camber change after this point...at least for a street driven car. So why spend the money for GW UCA and then the possibility of buying a bump steer kit? I realize shocks are an important piece of the equation so I'm thinking of using Koni shocks. I'm also going to be using a roller spring peaches which is suppose to do wonders freeing up the suspension from binding. I already have a 1" front bar and export brace with a Monte' Carlo bar to be installed next. I don't plan doing to much to the rear axle. Definitely not going to use a rear sway bar, maybe a Panhard bar though.
So now I have given you a little background let me tell you my ideas, thoughts. Ideally I would like to use Global West UCA. I think they nailed it. My problem with them is the cost, do I really need them and added incidentals. The problem I'm concerned is with spindles. Unless you stick with 65-66 spindles, later model spindles which are stronger and which a lot of guys use them for disk brakes, which I was planning on doing, cause a really bad bump steer issue to the point of being unsafe. While I could use a bump steer kit, this adds money and also I'm not crazy of using Heim joints on the street being exposed to road grime and so on.
I'm leaning toward just lowering the stock UCA 1". As I understand, there's not a significant to be gained in camber change after this point...at least for a street driven car. So why spend the money for GW UCA and then the possibility of buying a bump steer kit? I realize shocks are an important piece of the equation so I'm thinking of using Koni shocks. I'm also going to be using a roller spring peaches which is suppose to do wonders freeing up the suspension from binding. I already have a 1" front bar and export brace with a Monte' Carlo bar to be installed next. I don't plan doing to much to the rear axle. Definitely not going to use a rear sway bar, maybe a Panhard bar though.
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