in what increments? I can't imagine weight shift of 0.25 inches is more than like 20-30lbs.
As long as you go up equally on each side, there will be zero weight shift...small angle formula and all that. That's not what we're doing; we're changing roll center heights relative to reach other. I'd expect a 5mm rake (difference between F & R ride height) change to be noticeable. These kits that throw an extra 20-30mm front to rear ride difference are making big handing changes that I don't think they really even understand.
It was sort of my intent - make large enough change that it is noticeable and see what happens, then make further changes.
i don’t think you can look to Ford for wisdom here. Even the GT350R and GT500 are essentially street cars and theres only so much spring rate that a normal buyer will tolerate. The ride quality just gets too busy when critically damped at high rates, so they go for the softer springs and use swaybars to help keep things flat. Same thing for camber. The street car compromises don’t make sense when we’re spending so much time on closed courses.
Sadly, as much as I want to disagree with you, you are probably right. I like to believe that the "premium" tier (I don't know what else to call that GT350/R/500 level) of Mustangs are being built to race, then made to work on the street.
Here's my opinion. Street car guys don't tend to have big brake zones and the don't even know corner entry speed is a thing. Because of this, when gassing it on the local freeway on-ramp, the performance manufacturers give them something which is balanced in a very pushy situation. All the 'canned' spring packages seem to be to make the car lower overall with the tail proportionally higher for aesthetic reasons and rates chosen to kill any understeer which might exist in a stock car. Once you do anything on the front, like add camber, you're loose.
Agreed. It seems like it's due to them trying to bring over some of the time attack corvettes in CAM-S and then it rolled downhill from there.
Well the fastest CAMC car in my area is a very stock looking ZL1 1LE with MCS coilovers and good wheels/tires. Its about as streetable looking as they get. You still have to drive it tho.
I mean aside from the splitter and spoiler on my car you'd never guess I was the fastest car in my class in the Atlanta region. My main competitor did upgrade to a Nine Lives dual element wing in theoff-season, but any time gained was most likely due to his new tires and not the wing. Certainly not to the point that the PAX would think you it would help.
So far it has worked out great, ton of these guys showed up (sarcasm of course).
