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**Midnight11** · 08-30-2012, 11:26 AM

Yea well I couldn't tell you how it rode after. We put the Panhard bar and sway bar on then it got totaled testing it out 10 mins later lol

**kanetrain** · 08-30-2012, 11:50 AM

Can't go wrong with coilovers, panhard bar of course, and rear LCAs. Rides awesome.

**Toby** · 08-30-2012, 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by Midnight11

Yea well I couldn't tell you how it rode after. We put the Panhard bar and sway bar on then it got totaled testing it out 10 mins later lol

ouch that sucks! Sway bars make a huge difference on these cars!

**dallasmike** · 08-30-2012, 12:26 PM

Originally Posted by DirtyD

If I win the lottery, or at least a couple grand in a scratch off, I'm getting coilovers.

I think you'd be surprised what I can do on a set of coilovers price wise.

**Midnight11** · 08-30-2012, 12:27 PM

^which is? lol

**dallasmike** · 08-30-2012, 12:29 PM

PM me for the price.

**89gt-stanger** · 09-16-2012, 12:30 PM

After putting exhaust on, got soe bad wheel hop. Put on BMR's LCA's and relocation brackets on the middle hole. Almost none there after, and when the car shifts (auto) it hooks right up. Best suspension mod thus far.

Dylan

**Luke** · 09-19-2012, 04:09 PM

Originally Posted by 89gt-stanger

After putting exhaust on, got soe bad wheel hop. Put on BMR's LCA's and relocation brackets on the middle hole. Almost none there after, and when the car shifts (auto) it hooks right up. Best suspension mod thus far.

Dylan

Is your car lowered?

**Eaglei532** · 09-19-2012, 06:31 PM

I would say that there are two main causes of wheel hop on the newer GTs, but since none of you have worn out bushings yet, tires may be the culprit.

**46Tbird** · 09-20-2012, 12:06 AM

The reason there is a lot of wheel hop on new GTs is because the lower control arms are flimsy pieces of shit. Planting the tires causes them to bend upward, reach the limit, and snap back straight, over and over... aka wheel hop. The Brembo cars have GT500 LCAs, which are better, but even then some people have serious wheelhop with them (I never have). Swapping LCAs is just about the best thing you can do on an S197 Mustang.

**DirtyD** · 09-20-2012, 12:53 AM

I'll eventually upgrade to some, but not until I go fatter meat out back. For now, I'm going to get a Freedom Racing Aluminum Adj. PHB from Jay @ Hypermotive and then some BMR springs.

Fair · 11-02-2012, 04:17 PM

Howdy everyone - just found out about this forum today. Since I own a suspension shop here in DFW I figured I would post up in this thread.

I don't know much about the whole stance thing, and we don't sell Chinese coilovers, but I do know how to make an S197 Mustang handle on track or in an autocross, and still ride well on the street.

Come to think of it... I'm pretty sure we have the quickest road course or autocross S197 Mustang in all of Texas at the moment? I could be wrong - if there is a properly sorted AIX S197 in Texas I suspect it should be faster. My 2011 GT puts 3+ seconds a lap on the fastest American Iron racers, and it isn't a gutted, no-compromises race car - it is a street car that is emissions legal, has A/C, and is anything but light (3750 with driver). My wife daily drives it to work, but for race weekends we bolt on race wheels/tires and rear aero and race it in autocross or NASA Time Trials, among other events (Optima Challenge, Global Time Attack, TX2K, etc).

Vorshlag has a shop in Plano and we do some service and fabrication work on various late model chassis, including the S197 Mustang. We make our own camber/caster plates, plus we sell and stock Whiteline bushings/control arms/swaybars/watts, Powerflex bushings, Energy Suspension bushings, and AST and Moton coilovers. We made our own lightweight 18x10" wheels for the S197 and can order custom wheels from Forgestar up to 18x12" wide (which is what we use on our 2011 GT).

Come out to the Five Star Ford track event November 17th at Eagles Canyon Raceway (sign up here) and see for yourself. I'm pretty sure they will let us take riders, and if so, the right seat will be available all day.

**DirtyD** · 11-02-2012, 05:16 PM

Welcome guys! In the next year or so, praying that everything goes well after my most recent strut fiasco, I hope to be putting coilovers on my car, and I might be paying y'all a visit.

**jayman33** · 11-02-2012, 08:38 PM

I took off my roush/ kw coilovers, eibach sways and BBR LCA and installed whiteline sways, LCA and relo brackets along with Koni yellows, hotchkis springs and steeda camber strut mounts. Ill actually be going with the vorshlag cc plates later on due to steeda's limited adjustability. Next suspension mod is the whiteline watts link then that will be it until i find my next set of coilovers when i decide to track the car and when that happens ill be removing the whipple for a full livernois high revving longblock.

Drove the car for the first time today after swapping the suspension and replacing the entire exhaust, put on the SW headers with O/R xpipe and the magnaflow stainless street catback to keep the car relatively quiet. So far im pleased, the exhaust is actually quieter than my o/r x and bassani setup but i finally have zero drone and i love the SW exotic sound. The suspension is a little soft but the konis were on their softest setting and with the softer hotchkis springs was just a bit much. Ill dial it in a little more tomorrow, good thing i have VIR next weekend. Picking up a set of ADV1 forged wheels for the track and ill see how those hold up.

**jayman33** · 11-02-2012, 08:47 PM

Fair, im a big fan of you guys. You guys heading up to NC anytime soon?