I love my new GT500...except

[Joe Frito]

why the heck would Ford release a car that has such a bad wheel hop problem? This issue wasn't really brought up in any of the magazine tests I read, and is the first car I have owned with this problem. I can't believe that Ford cheaped out with the cheap upper and lower control arms, and wouldn't engineer them properly for the car not to have this issue. For all of the hours of R&D that they would have done, it really burns me that I have to invest extra money to fix something on a brand new car that should not be there in the first place. Sorry for the rant, but this is a serious issue for me that takes away from the enjoyment of an otherwise great car!

 

[01SVTSnake]

probably so there was less NVH.

 

[jlauth]

If you think your GT500 is bad you never drove an 03 or 04 cobra then.

 

[red9450]

I'll trade you. Wish I had those problems

 

[ff500]

I've driven both and the GT500 is worse than the 03 Cobra, I just had the frpp handling pack installed and no more wheel hop, the car launches nicely.I talked with my tech yesterday I am now thinking about the tvs blower and headers, x-pipe and frpp cams, he is pricing it for me.But he told me another GT500 owner was having the Roush wheel hop kit installed and he would let me know how that worked out.The parts are $300.

 

[Rosco P]

I was surprised as well. It really takes away from being able to enjoy the car. But I did Steeda stuff UCA, LCA, relocation brakets, springs, solved to problem. FRPP stuff will do as well I'm sure.

 

[1FSTHRSE]

wheel hop

some have it some don't. i was lucky, never had it on mine when stock. still don't have it, but nvh is a bit more. my 03 cobra was terrible. love this car much more. just my opinion. good luck

 

[zex-srt10]

I know a free way to get ride of all your wheel hop, just drive your car to were i live. Sierra Vista AZ, mmmm It's about 4,750 above sea level. It is hard t break it loose in 2nd.

 

[HISSMAN]

I have heard that the hop is worse in the 500's as well. Just upgrade a few compnents and call it a day. ( this needs to be done anyway) As for my cobra, I just cut the stock rear springs (linear) and the hop has not been back since.

-Jeff

 

[03 DSG Snake]

Ford loves rubber bushings. That is the problem.

Control arms are cheap compared to IRS mods :lol1:

 

[Stripe Delete]

About every car with over 300hp seems to have some wheelhop with stock suspension. Hell Vettes hop, M6s hop, GTOs ect ect.
I dont like it (gone now) but high HP cars seem to hop from the factory from what I have experienced.
Just add lower control arms and that will stop 70% of it on the GT500.

 

[HISSMAN]

Rubber bushings and flimsy stamped control arms FTL.

 

[chuckstang]

I love the way my car drives 90% of the time, the other 10% when I really get it on it, it hops but I will be taking care of that this Spring. I can not wait!

Stripe Delete-I will have your set up I believe-Frpp springs, Dspecs and upper and lowers, relocation brackets and so on.

 

[03cobrarocks]

man... if its worse than my car was when I had IRS I feel really bad for some of yall! That shit made my teeth rattle!

 

[352Ford]

why the heck would Ford release a car that has such a bad wheel hop problem? This issue wasn't really brought up in any of the magazine tests I read, and is the first car I have owned with this problem. I can't believe that Ford cheaped out with the cheap upper and lower control arms, and wouldn't engineer them properly for the car not to have this issue. For all of the hours of R&D that they would have done, it really burns me that I have to invest extra money to fix something on a brand new car that should not be there in the first place. Sorry for the rant, but this is a serious issue for me that takes away from the enjoyment of an otherwise great car!

Vehicle dynamics engineers have to meet NVH, cost, and performance goals. Assuming the wheel hop doesn’t cause failures in validation testing and doesn’t keep the car from meeting it performance targets; it will usually not get fixed. Quite often things like this either don’t end up on QFD’s or they are not weighted very high.

Don’t forget the RLCA/bushing assembly on the GT500 is better than the base cars, and look to be a better design for this problem than the solid axle fox platforms.

O-yeah, it’s a royal pain to meet NVH requirements and not have wheel hop on powerful IRS cars, and almost impossible to do for a cost conscious car like the mustang.

 

[352Ford]

Couple other side notes:

Really soft bushings can be used as a band aid fix to survive certain elements of durability testing.

Really soft suspension bushings can be used for additional progressive wheel rate.

Really soft suspension bushings can used to minimized bind when the suspension kinematics are not right (think fox chassis)


But I don’t think these three notes apply to on this car, but that is pure speculation.

 

[03gobluecobra]

Are you driving this car in the cold right now? It should get a ton better once it warms up. I think Ford didn't design the car to be driving in too cold of weather.

 

[Captain Beyond]

My GT500 has much more wheelhop than my Terminator had, but it also has more hp/trq. :coolman:

 

[SID297]

Get some Metco products.

 

[remsvt]

Yep, wheehop is a PITA to fix on the termy! Wonder if the KR will have wheelhop?? op: