DILYSI Dave
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I'm trying to create room in the rear wheelwells. One thing that looks like a good candidate is the shock. Has anyone relocated the shock to the spring location, with a coilover setup?
Are you planing on tubing the car? Otherwise it is a waste of time. The tires hit the tubs before they hit the shocks on my car. Might depend on the tire wheel size of course.
My ruleset allows me to get rid of the sheetmetal wheelhouse, but not the frame rail. So I suspect either tubs or some BFH surgery will be happening. The assembly line bracket is going to go. It looks like the shock would be in the way at that point, but maybe not. I don't have the bigass wheels yet.
Yeah, fabbing the bumpstop mounts is no big deal. Pretty excited to see a 345/35/18 stuffed, as that's what I would like to run. Of course, that looks like a car meant for going straight, not one meant for pulling 1.6 G's give or take, so that needs to be taken into account as well.
The largest tire you can fit under there and still go around corners effectively is a 315. Any wider than that and you are hitting the "frame" or fender lip. You don't need to relocate the shock to do this.
Sounds like you've actually seen it hitting the portion I can't remove.
The largest tire you can fit under there and still go around corners effectively is a 315. Any wider than that and you are hitting the "frame" or fender lip. You don't need to relocate the shock to do this.
........ In autox, narrow is good.
Look at this way the FR500's and Boss 302(R's and S's) don't run these modifications and still perform tremendously. BUT if it is a look thing for you then that's a different story.
Correct me if I'm wrong but the Boss 302S in the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge is on 285/xx/18's right? Isn't that the same as what the 302R is running in World Challenge? I'm not overly familiar with the rules but I know in CTSCC they are mandated by the rules to a certain tire size. I assumed the World Challenge cars are running basically under a similar set of rules.
Sorry I have to disagree. A widened Mustang isn't as wide as a Corvette and they increase in cornering speed more than makes up for running a tighter line.