Cost Effective and Easy install Mod help for Daily Driver

[barron64]

Don't forget to install a set of camber plates and get a good street/performance alignment. Lot of bang for your buck in doing this.

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[RedTetsu13]

Don't forget to install a set of camber plates and get a good street/performance alignment. Lot of bang for your buck in doing this.

I figured I'd mess with alignment post doing the extra bracing to really fine tune it. Given again my car is daily driver expected use case will be 90-95% commuting and backroads rather than track, and well -2 of camber is a bit much for the street. But eventual camber plates would be added once I figured out how I wanted to proceed with shocks and springs.

 

[mustanghammer]

Unless you have the magna-ride Stuts and Shocks you should add aftermarket shocks and struts to your list. I have a 2017 base GT and I installed Koni Sports in the first 1K miles. The OE shocks and struts are garbage.

The PP1 K-member brace is attached to the front of the K-Member. It has a unique belly pan that includes a handy door for accessing the oil filter. The after market braces stiffen the rear parts of the K-member so you can do both. I found one I have at Ford of White Bear Lake. Also could probably get one off of Ebay

On the strut brace there are three parts. The brace the runs between the strut towers, the brace that triangulates the strut towers to the fire wall and a brace that stiffens the fire wall. Need all three do do any good. Got all of mine off of Ebay.

 

[barron64]

I figured I'd mess with alignment post doing the extra bracing to really fine tune it. Given again my car is daily driver expected use case will be 90-95% commuting and backroads rather than track, and well -2 of camber is a bit much for the street. But eventual camber plates would be added once I figured out how I wanted to proceed with shocks and springs.

I have an 18 PP1 vert with stock suspension, 19x10's all around with 285/35's, and aligned to -1.4 camber in front and -1.2 in the rear. No strange wear and handles great.

 

[RedTetsu13]

I have an 18 PP1 vert with stock suspension, 19x10's all around with 285/35's, and aligned to -1.4 camber in front and -1.2 in the rear. No strange wear and handles great.

Probably dumb question but is the alignment on the pp1 vastly different compared to the non pp car (haven't found anywhere confirming or denying that)?

 

[RedTetsu13]

Unless you have the magna-ride Stuts and Shocks you should add aftermarket shocks and struts to your list. I have a 2017 base GT and I installed Koni Sports in the first 1K miles. The OE shocks and struts are garbage.

The PP1 K-member brace is attached to the front of the K-Member. It has a unique belly pan that includes a handy door for accessing the oil filter. The after market braces stiffen the rear parts of the K-member so you can do both. I found one I have at Ford of White Bear Lake. Also could probably get one off of Ebay

On the strut brace there are three parts. The brace the runs between the strut towers, the brace that triangulates the strut towers to the fire wall and a brace that stiffens the fire wall. Need all three do do any good. Got all of mine off of Ebay.

It is and it isn't, so I figured I'd cross that rabbit hole at a later date, but I'm pretty split b/w going just koni shocks adj. Yellows or just going all in on a set of ground control coils or Fortune Autos. I also debated doing the ford performance track pack shocks as well but the more research I did, the more indecisive I got (so I'll probably make that decision if I make track days super recurring things).

 

[barron64]

Probably dumb question but is the alignment on the pp1 vastly different compared to the non pp car (haven't found anywhere confirming or denying that)?

I have seen the factory alignment specs and the PP1 has slightly more negative camber than a non-PP car, but not by much. Either way, none of the factory specs would be considered aggressive.

Probably dumb question but is the alignment on the pp1 vastly different compared to the non pp car (haven't found anywhere confirming or denying that)?

 

[JFBullitt]

I had the the BMR CB007 front brace and CB005 kit installed about a month ago.

Took my car up to the mountains this weekend and I was very impressed considering the rest of the suspension is stock. With the cross brace underneath, plus the braces from the factory, the front is as solid as its ever going to be. Not much change given I'm not on slicks, but I can lean on the front end with confidence.

However, the biggest change is out back with CB005. It reduces wheelhop in a straight line but the the corners...I couldn't believe the traction this car has on corner exit now. Previous gen Mustangs would've tried spinning me into the trees.

Either way, the front and back of the car are solid and resolutely on the same page now as you would expect in an M3 or Camaro 1LE. I think some type of bracing/lockout on the rear is a must. Don't think you can go wrong with any of them.

 

[RedTetsu13]

I had the the BMR CB007 front brace and CB005 kit installed about a month ago.

Took my car up to the mountains this weekend and I was very impressed considering the rest of the suspension is stock. With the cross brace underneath, plus the braces from the factory, the front is as solid as its ever going to be. Not much change given I'm not on slicks, but I can lean on the front end with confidence.

However, the biggest change is out back with CB005. It reduces wheelhop in a straight line but the biggest change is in the corners. I couldn't believe the traction this car has on corner exit now. Previous gen Mustangs would've tried spinning me into the trees.

Either way, the front and back of the car are solid and resolutely on the same page now as you would expect in an M3 or Camaro 1LE. Adding the Steeda STH kit or the BMR CB762 on top would probably improve things even more. I think the IRS bracing is a must regardless of which kit you go with.

Thanks for the input. This would be a lot easier if a tire Conti and Michelin just fused their ECS/ECS02 with the PS4S, I did some hard driving yesterday and I could see that the Conti ECS kind of wasn't great in mid corner corrections/adjustments could be done but the weighting felt off/weirdly light. Initial turn in is great but I feel like something is lacking past that point which supposedly the PS4S is better for (based on Tyre Reviews).

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