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<blockquote data-quote="Jroc" data-source="post: 10866767" data-attributes="member: 51847"><p>Here's my opinion if you really want to improve your cars handling you should upgrade the front suspensions geometry. I did most of the little handing mods other than upgrading to a MM or Griggs kmember/A-arms, and my car handled well I guess, but it really just handled like a stock Cobra with a little higher limits. People whine about the change in the wheel position with the MM/Griggs front suspension, but it's done for a reason, and it's not for improved weight distribution as .750"-1.500" won't dramatically improve weight distribution I don't think. What it does is it changes the caster on the car which always you to run much less negative camber to achieve the same results as with the stock setup. It also improve the steering geometry. -2 degree's camber with the stock setup might give you the same results as -0.5 degree's camber(guesstiment on my part) with an improved setup.</p><p></p><p>Oddly enough I will be running a MM front suspension on my TermiFox, but I will be using their negative A-arms that keep the wheels in the factory location. I will be doing this for 2 reason. First the obvious is tire clear issues. A foxbody has a hard enough time fitting tires with the stock geometry much less one that the wheels are move forward. Second, and most imprtant is because I will be running a Steeda 5link,(the original 5link) and the 5link is designed to optimise the stock geometry and it's roll center doesn't work as well with the improve geometry. If I was to run a torque arm setup then I would run an improve front geometry. I won't run a 3link setup as you run pretty stiff rear setups with them, and MM doesn't won't you to run regular springs on them if you plan to run stiffer than about a 215 lb C/O setup up front. Well damn that, I don't want to run C/O on the rear because my fenders are cleared to work with 10.5" wide wheels and 315's and they barely clear the shocks so a coil spring sitting over the shocks would most defiantly hit so that is not an option.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jroc, post: 10866767, member: 51847"] Here's my opinion if you really want to improve your cars handling you should upgrade the front suspensions geometry. I did most of the little handing mods other than upgrading to a MM or Griggs kmember/A-arms, and my car handled well I guess, but it really just handled like a stock Cobra with a little higher limits. People whine about the change in the wheel position with the MM/Griggs front suspension, but it's done for a reason, and it's not for improved weight distribution as .750"-1.500" won't dramatically improve weight distribution I don't think. What it does is it changes the caster on the car which always you to run much less negative camber to achieve the same results as with the stock setup. It also improve the steering geometry. -2 degree's camber with the stock setup might give you the same results as -0.5 degree's camber(guesstiment on my part) with an improved setup. Oddly enough I will be running a MM front suspension on my TermiFox, but I will be using their negative A-arms that keep the wheels in the factory location. I will be doing this for 2 reason. First the obvious is tire clear issues. A foxbody has a hard enough time fitting tires with the stock geometry much less one that the wheels are move forward. Second, and most imprtant is because I will be running a Steeda 5link,(the original 5link) and the 5link is designed to optimise the stock geometry and it's roll center doesn't work as well with the improve geometry. If I was to run a torque arm setup then I would run an improve front geometry. I won't run a 3link setup as you run pretty stiff rear setups with them, and MM doesn't won't you to run regular springs on them if you plan to run stiffer than about a 215 lb C/O setup up front. Well damn that, I don't want to run C/O on the rear because my fenders are cleared to work with 10.5" wide wheels and 315's and they barely clear the shocks so a coil spring sitting over the shocks would most defiantly hit so that is not an option. [/QUOTE]
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