When they came out they were considered good handling cars. They are not "sports cars" but a shortened Ford Fairmont. I owned 3 Fox Mustangs and road raced one of them. There are a few other options using modified stock parts as well. The Fox body front suspension is basically a MacPherson Strut suspension so many of the "fixes" that have been developed to make this design of suspension "work" will work on the Fox.ĭon't lower it to much, add camber, add caster, firmer bushings, etc.Īs for the rear on a Fox most serious owners have just tossed it in favor of a torque arm/panhard bar set up or a 3 link. Oh but one good thing about the foxbody is that the rear suspension more or less stayed the same all the way until 04 so that means you can fit the cobra IRS in a foxbody pretty easily. Iv heard all you need is new lower control arms to fix that issue though. The rear end of the foxbody was so bad they added a extra set of shocks to keep if from moving forward and back on the car. I had a 01 Mustang stock and it was ok, didn't pay it much attention because the rear end of that car was so bad. Then they went to the struts with the foxbody and that went from 78 and more or less stayed the same up until 04. ![]() Oh and don't forget you can have any kind of spring/shock combo. You want all stainless parts? You got it! What brakes do you want? Wilwood, brembo, bear, factory? What lug pattern? 5x4.5,4.75,5,5.5 6x5,5.5 or even an 8 lug! What about steering racks? Power manual fast slow? Then there is tons of information on setting these front ends to do anything you want as far as geometry goes. The best thing about the mustangII is it works with almost anything and there is a huge aftermarket. MustangII suspension was more or less "right" as far as geometry goes but the stamped lower arms and strut rods of the real mustangII front end is replaced with tubular lower control arms in the aftermarket. First mustangs got the suspension from the falcon. ![]() Ford was very slow making there suspensions better so they stayed around for a long time. I worked at FatMan Fabrications for about two years and we made mustangII front ends for all kinds of cars. Finally! Something i'm knowledgeable about!
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