Gt 50 handles really bad

[Captain Greg]

Took the GT out today, standard car apart from rear boxes and wheel spacers at high speed above 180km/ hour it feels very lose and unsafe tire pressures correct Pzero all round
IMO it wanders on the road and not planted anyone else feel the same about the car ?
in contrast a German or British car at 180 feels solid and no wandering ?
curious to hear from guys with stock mustangs and possibly cheap,solutions to improve it

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[Oakley]

subframe inserts take care of most of that. the ford performance toe link bushings got rid of the rest.

 

[Captain Greg]

subframe inserts take care of most of that. the ford performance toe link bushings got rid of the rest.

Thanks for that not familiar with the parts you mentioned any link that a layman can follow to get an understanding of it

 

[Oakley]

here's whats on my car. same thing as steeda but half the price.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B081D7J358/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

the bushings are in the track pack suspension kit ford performance sells. you can get em separately install sucked but it helped make things much more predictable.

 

[compprep]

New car or used? How's the alignment?

 

[Captain Greg]

New car or used? How's the alignment?

Bought it new never hit a pavement, tracks straight, steering wheel straight
just seems very light on the road at higher speeds
I will look at the bushings and see if we can get it here South Africa does have some importers of muscle car bits

 

[Deleted member 69311]

Mustangs float at high speeds. When you’re going 140mph (225kph) you feel like the tires aren’t fully planted on the road. Upgrading suspension parts fixes this.

 

[Raebanks]

You said you have wheel spacers. I hope they’re hubcentric. If so, make sure they’re torqued properly.

 

[K4fxd]

Check the alignment. The IRS subframe bushings are really soft. Also look at your front splitter is it angled up? Mine was. Lowering the front 1/2 inch and leaving the rear alone helped mine.

 

[Captain Greg]

You said you have wheel spacers. I hope they’re hubcentric. If so, make sure they’re torqued properly.

Yep they bolt on and the wheel bolts to them 35mm rear 25mm front

 

[boB]

https://low-offset.com/workshop/scrub-radius-explained/

https://suspensionsecrets.co.uk/why-you-should-not-fit-wheels-spacers/

 

[Captain Greg]

https://low-offset.com/workshop/scrub-radius-explained/

https://suspensionsecrets.co.uk/why-you-should-not-fit-wheels-spacers/

Reading these articles I am wondering if the wheel spacer kit is to blame for its poor handling?
I am of the opinion the car handles pretty much as it did when I got it, and then out the box it was a bit un planted unlike a German or British car.
Im not wanting to sound like a prat , I’m comparing the 50 to a similar Aston Martin with similar Hp ..the AM is like an arrow in comparison to the Ford.
In my case the AM came from the factory with a nice masculine stance and I was satisfied the tyres and wheel arches were fine.
With the mustang it always looked as if there was a wide gap between tyre and wheel arch? This was fixed when I added the spacer kit (35mm rear and 25mm front) now the rubber is closer to the fenders and the stance ( for me) looks a bit nicer ..I know nothing about racing sets ups and complex steering sets ups I’m just an enthusiast who likes my cars to look nice, and I want to be able to hoon it now and again …I also have the bonnet hop at high speed ….again not a thing we see in other marques

 

[K4fxd]

Does it feel like the rear is not planted? or is disconnected from the front?

If so this is the soft IRS bushings. Steeda has a kit to fix it, works well. It is called the "stop the hop kit"

Ford engineered these for Women, soft and compliant ride.

 

[wingnutt]

lol…is the GT50 the metric version of the GT 5.0?

…askin for a friend

 

[shogun32]

The mustang is "a piece of sh*t" car in the handling/chassis department - where high speed driving (>100mph) REALLY brings out the warts. You as owner get the honor of fixing the mounts (all that garbage rubber) and putting in proper dampers - eg. Bilstein B6. I would dispense with the spacers but that's not at the root of the problem.

Also just because you haven't hit a pothole doesn't mean your alignment isn't shyte. Ford factory specs are crap.

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