1990 Mustang 5.0 Rally Build
Posted by Hambone1966
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Stop...You're trolling too hard dude. Don't you see this guy is actually building something? And as such might want real advice not how about every bit of shit junk in every mustang junk peddler? Or if you want to keep trolling with thisd junk parts put the god damn price next to it so people don't have to click to see that you posted yet another fucking JOKE..$650 Do you have some compulsion to post junk parts? Or do you not understand they are junk scrap shit? How about 
http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Lot-4-Coleman-UB-Machine-Swedge-Tube-Sleeve-1-2-3-4-5-8-Steel-25-26-/371266656489 $40 add some rod ends @ $16 each, some rubber rod ends like these for $18 
Some of these http://www.ebay.com/itm/4-link-tabs-Set-of-4-2-75-axle-1-2-hole-1-4-plate-2-5-tall-/131570540762?hash=item1ea23720da&vxp=mtr 
for $12.50 for 4 Some of these for $11 for 4 for the shocks 
For $199.50 total.and then some spares.?? |
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Aaron Luptak Mod Moderator Location: SLC Join Date: 02/15/2008 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 776 Rally Car: Civic... |
A major infraction?! Oh noes! 
Wait, I win? Sweet?! 
(someone award this man an internet, or at least a rally-forum-sub-slice-of-the-internet)  KF7RWG 
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Jason Hamilton Ultra Moderator Location: Phoenix, AZ Join Date: 04/08/2015 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 32 Rally Car: 1990 Ford Mustang 5.0 |
Since I'm a beginner, I want to understand where you guys are coming from.
The kits that have been posted are called ridiculous - is it because they are too expensive for what they are/what they'll do? Is it because they won't handle a rally because they are made more for street applications? I look at these pictures and see shiny expensive stuff, but I'm not sure what the engineers had in mind with all of it. The STEEDA kit for instance- what is that connection to the differential for? Are all those bolts and adjustments going to be too weak for this kind of driving? Basically, I need good shocks with better than stock travel, control arms with a better range of movement? Sway bar? Jason Hamilton Phoenix, Arizona 1990 Ford Mustang 5.0 It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be. |
Aaron Luptak Mod Moderator Location: SLC Join Date: 02/15/2008 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 776 Rally Car: Civic... |
in my (by no means authoritative) opinion-
* sheer cost is a definite concern. Can you pay someone to fab up an escort-style setup for less than $1300? No idea. As others have pointed out, the raw parts don't total nearly that amount. * I think anything that's targeted at Street or Road Racing will always have the "is it strong enough for rally?" question hanging over it. * I'd guess that anything that's targeting specific classes that don't allow this-or-that (one mention of the Steeda setup being legal for SCCA's American Sedan road racing class for example) may be making some compromises to work around those rules. (Aside from the bozos in Pee or B-speck) most of those restrictions don't exist in R-A or NRS, so why spend more money for a design compromised to work around restrictions you don't have? Building a mental model in my head of the OE Foxbody suspension, the upper links seem like they'd work against each other to get much axle movement. The steeda kit is better with the parallel upper arms, but I'm not convinced it's $1300 better - and concerned other parts may be weaker etc. After all, the stock(ish) parts worked for Hurst so who am I to argue? 
Yeah, if somebody handed it to you for free, I'd definitely give it a shot. Spending my own cash? I'd probably plan on doing an escort-style 4-link, and run OE stuff in the interim if necessary. KF7RWG
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