Ford performance Handling Pack

Gt197

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with what stuff should i install my handling pack? Like what brand of control arms and panhard bar. Im serching something between track and street use.
 

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Gt197,

YMMV but... My car came with the Ford package (non-adjustable struts and shocks, P springs). I added FRPP front and rear sway bars and BMR LCAs, LCA relocation brackets, panhard rod and brace. I added FRPP bump stops but cut the top nub off. I also just added Vorshlag caster/camber plates -- not inexpensive but the best engineered and built, in my humble opinion.

Not saying this is the best way to go but it works for me. :D

For drag strip suspension, BMR offers everything you need. (Again, just my opinion, as a non-drag strip guy.)

HTH,

Chris
 

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with what stuff should i install my handling pack? Like what brand of control arms and panhard bar. Im serching something between track and street use.
If by 'track' you mean road course, UMI makes rear LCAs with a poly bushing at one end and a spherical of some sort (Roto-joint) that is not a rod end at the other. That design is much better suited to cornering than any of the garden-variety LCAs that use poly at both ends. Spohn, with their Poly/Del-Sphere LCAs, being another.

A car that's more dragstrip and straight line in nature is generally OK with poly/poly LCAs.

Either way, LCAs can be done as a completely separate mod at a later date.

Same goes for the PHB, which I'm also more inclined to take a wait-and-see-if-it's-needed approach. It's more work to adjust an adjustable PHB that requires one end to be disconnected, but that kind can never slip its adjustment more than a fraction of a turn, making it in my opinion better for anybody who wants to be able to take a set it and forget it attitude to it. In no case for a street-driven car does the PHB brace (sometimes incorrectly called an "upper PHB") need to be replaced.


Norm
 

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Depends on what kind of track & how often...how do you want the road drive to feel (stiff/soft)?
 

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I recommend the J&M extreme rear LCAs. They have a spherical PU bushing wich makes the axle much more responsive. There is a lot less shaking in the rear when you drive through a pot hole or similar. And NVH is not too much increased.
 

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