Shaun
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So I've been working on this beauty the past few weeks:
What better car to use to release our brand spankin' new front coilover system with our custom valved Bilstein coilover shocks:
I'm pretty dang proud of this system. No, its not just another coilover system, I felt I could do a much better job than what is currently on the market. We used the same race winning geometry used on our conventional tubular control arms, then partnered with Bilstein for shocks. In my opinion, they make one of the best, most affordable 'proper' shocks on the market.
We've worked all year computing motion ratios, wheel rates, sprung and un-sprung weights, critical damping and a massive list of other variables to design our own propieatery Street, Sport and Race valving and spring combinations specific to the 65-70 Mustangs. We do NOT use a standard 'off the shelf shock' that simply fits in the space and 'sort of feels right'. I've lost count of the amount of street miles and track days we've done this year testing. I can't remember how many shocks we've valved to get this right but its a lot! In fact, we are back at the track tomorrow playing with the Race valving some more. I just can't leave it alone!
Here is a link to our flier that lists a whole bunch more information - http://www.streetortrack.com/files/images/st/Coilover_Front_Suspension.pdf
Car looks pretty dang good with our Trans-Am brake system installed:
Our upper mount spacer is also pretty slick. It fits around the stock coil spring perch negating its removal. The owner of this BOSS wanted a stealth look so we cut down some stock style shocks, drilled a hole in our cover plate and installed the stock shocks for a really trick look:
From left to right, stock shock cap, our cover plate, aluminum upper mount spacer, upper mount:
3 holes need to be drilled into the stock upper spring seat on 67-70 cars, no holes required for 65-66 cars:
Our cover plate slips under your export brace to cover the hole (it also acts as a template for drilling the holes on 67-70 cars). You can see the hole we drilled for the stock shock to sit in:
Stock shock cut down:
Stock shock installed:
All show in the engine bay, all go underneath!
If you don't want to go stealth and want to brag about whats underneath, here is what the cover plate looks like without the stock shock tops installed:
Here is Jason in our 65 test car going 1.5 seconds per lap quicker with our Race setup than his heavily modified conventional style system. He was so dang quick he lapped the instructor that put him through tech saying, 'are you sure you want to run this group? You can move down if its too fast for you'!
What better car to use to release our brand spankin' new front coilover system with our custom valved Bilstein coilover shocks:
I'm pretty dang proud of this system. No, its not just another coilover system, I felt I could do a much better job than what is currently on the market. We used the same race winning geometry used on our conventional tubular control arms, then partnered with Bilstein for shocks. In my opinion, they make one of the best, most affordable 'proper' shocks on the market.
We've worked all year computing motion ratios, wheel rates, sprung and un-sprung weights, critical damping and a massive list of other variables to design our own propieatery Street, Sport and Race valving and spring combinations specific to the 65-70 Mustangs. We do NOT use a standard 'off the shelf shock' that simply fits in the space and 'sort of feels right'. I've lost count of the amount of street miles and track days we've done this year testing. I can't remember how many shocks we've valved to get this right but its a lot! In fact, we are back at the track tomorrow playing with the Race valving some more. I just can't leave it alone!
Here is a link to our flier that lists a whole bunch more information - http://www.streetortrack.com/files/images/st/Coilover_Front_Suspension.pdf
Car looks pretty dang good with our Trans-Am brake system installed:
Our upper mount spacer is also pretty slick. It fits around the stock coil spring perch negating its removal. The owner of this BOSS wanted a stealth look so we cut down some stock style shocks, drilled a hole in our cover plate and installed the stock shocks for a really trick look:
From left to right, stock shock cap, our cover plate, aluminum upper mount spacer, upper mount:
3 holes need to be drilled into the stock upper spring seat on 67-70 cars, no holes required for 65-66 cars:
Our cover plate slips under your export brace to cover the hole (it also acts as a template for drilling the holes on 67-70 cars). You can see the hole we drilled for the stock shock to sit in:
Stock shock cut down:
Stock shock installed:
All show in the engine bay, all go underneath!
If you don't want to go stealth and want to brag about whats underneath, here is what the cover plate looks like without the stock shock tops installed:
Here is Jason in our 65 test car going 1.5 seconds per lap quicker with our Race setup than his heavily modified conventional style system. He was so dang quick he lapped the instructor that put him through tech saying, 'are you sure you want to run this group? You can move down if its too fast for you'!
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