Epiphany
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The media mentioned caster trail improvement as being built in to the 2020 GT350R and also implied that the car was using the GT500 knuckle. Since I happened to have both an older GT350 knuckle (that I picked up in 2016) as well as 2020 GT500 knuckles, I knew that the two cars could not share the same knuckle. Quite simply, the larger rotor and caliper used on the GT500 meant you couldn't use the knuckle from it along with a GT350 rotor and caliper. You can physically interchange the parts though even though they wouldn't work right. So I ordered a 2020 GT350R knuckle and when it came in I laid all of them next to each other in search of the truth.
I have yet to verify geometrical changes made but I'm quite certain that caster trail was improved for 2020 in the R. Why it wasn't done for the non-R GT350.....tire differences made it unnecessary?...something else? Anyway, here's a quick video I did this afternoon to try to clarify what Ford did.
You can study the '20 GT350R knuckle (on left) versus the '20 GT500 knuckle and see what I've been saying.
I have yet to verify geometrical changes made but I'm quite certain that caster trail was improved for 2020 in the R. Why it wasn't done for the non-R GT350.....tire differences made it unnecessary?...something else? Anyway, here's a quick video I did this afternoon to try to clarify what Ford did.
You can study the '20 GT350R knuckle (on left) versus the '20 GT500 knuckle and see what I've been saying.
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