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Look in the road race section. Most if not all fastest laps are on a square setup.I wonder if carving corners can relate to tracking...... lots of cars considered to be track cars come staggered
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Look in the road race section. Most if not all fastest laps are on a square setup.I wonder if carving corners can relate to tracking...... lots of cars considered to be track cars come staggered
Faster cornering with a staggered set up ?????
That’s stupid and an oxymoron since understeer is listed in the con…, it’s a Mustang, not a Porsche
Look in the road race section. Most if not all fastest laps are on a square setup.
????Ford must have screwed up with the GT350 and the GT500. Corvette must have screwed up with the Grand Sport..... is this comment from the experience?
Very true. Square allows you to rotate tires. I like to get all the miles I can out of a set.Most don't drive on the street where they need the best of "anything".
What?With that having been said, I am sure all Mustang drivers are carving canyons. Thus the PP cars exist for those that don't.
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Are you saying that the 350 and especially the 500 are not understeering cars that need more camber and rubber in front ?
Very true. Square allows you to rotate tires. I like to get all the miles I can out of a set.
What?
I run staggered and the car handles very well carving MT roads, no canyons is GA.
Staggered the tire is rotated L to R or across.
OP 10.5/11.0 stagger
You missed the sarcasm in my statement and the previous ones. We are actually in agreement I am staggered also and in Georgia.
Corvettes are an entirely different chassis, and they don't have as much weight over the front axle, so they don't need quite as much front tire. Heavy front end needs a bigger front tire to work. Our cars have a 52/48 weight balance, and when you're driving hard, the front tires do a lot more work than the rear tires (besides carrying most of the weight, they do most of the turning and braking, the rear tires only have to accelerate), so there's a good reason why you want just as big of a front tire as a rear tire for sporting purposes. Drive hard around a track or on a canyon road and your front tires will be hotter than your rear tires.Ford must have screwed up with the GT350 and the GT500. Corvette must have screwed up with the Grand Sport..... is this comment from the experience?
Corvettes are an entirely different chassis, and they don't have as much weight over the front axle, so they don't need quite as much front tire. Heavy front end needs a bigger front tire to work. Our cars have a 52/48 weight balance, and when you're driving hard, the front tires do a lot more work than the rear tires (besides carrying most of the weight, they do most of the turning and braking, the rear tires only have to accelerate), so there's a good reason why you want just as big of a front tire as a rear tire for sporting purposes. Drive hard around a track or on a canyon road and your front tires will be hotter than your rear tires.
Ford needs to keep it's cars safe for the masses, and that means terminal understeer at the limit. That's why many models are staggered. Also, big rear tires on the top of the lineup are nice, but the front wheel wells from 2015 just don't allow the same big wide 305+ tires without sacrificing things which Ford won't do (like darty highway manners, highway MPG, and tight clearances to the struts and fenders).
But we're not talking about GT350s and GT500s here we're talking normal GTs, where square works just fine in a 10" wheel with a 285 tire, which is still bigger in the rear than the PP1 cars come with. What's not to like?