Is there anything that improves the suspension a lot but doesn't destroy ride quality?

[shovel]

I'm gonna just keep giving people aneurysms forever with my stock height Mustang.. that's just how they were built. It's how all sporty cars were built back when people bought a car to drive it.

What I find funny is people lower these things to get rid of the horrors of the wheel gap but they only get rid of it at the top of the wheel, they still have the same gap as ever in front of the wheel and behind it. What problem got solved? Now you gotta drive diagonal over speed bumps and you still got the gap.

 

[cobrajeff96]

Like I said, depends on how much money/time you throw at it.

Mine's lowered but not slammed. The thing kinda glides over bumps and is out cornering most of these Euro cars I encounter.

Granted, it's no Caddy over bumps. I think it has a good balance between comfort and sport (with no 4x4 look any way you look at it, lol).

The final piece of the puzzle is an SLA and then I'll be 100% done with suspension. If someone ever made a multi-link for the rear of an SN95, I'd retract that statement and put the money down....but it doesn't seem likely that someone will ever develop it.

 

[Terrorist 5.0]

Product of its time I guess, I don’t mind them the way they are

 

[Daryl]

^ what he said.

Yep. Ditto

 

[bennylava]

I agree with Shovel, I never have ever said “hey, the SN95’s look like a 4X4 with that ride height”, I never understood why everyone says that.

If anything, I think it’s just the front fender has a slightly larger than usual wheel well, causing that misconception.

Just my opinion of course, but it looks terrible. Lowering an SN95 by one inch seems to put them right there at perfection. It looks like the car came that way, like they did it right. Once I did that (back in my teen years) nobody questioned the look anymore.

Before that, most of my friends did. Naturally everyone would get to looking at each other's cars, and the ones who didn't own or know mustangs would inevitably say something like "Erm, is there something wrong"?

I never liked the look before that, but with the random comments, I decided it had to go! Eibachs solved the problem rather nicely, I must say.

 

[Terrorist 5.0]

Just my opinion of course, but it looks terrible. Lowering an SN95 by one inch seems to put them right there at perfection. It looks like the car came that way, like they did it right. Once I did that (back in my teen years) nobody questioned the look anymore.

Before that, most of my friends did. Naturally everyone would get to looking at each other's cars, and the ones who didn't own or know mustangs would inevitably say something like "Erm, is there something wrong"?

I never liked the look before that, but with the random comments, I decided it had to go! Eibachs solved the problem rather nicely, I must say.

My car is lowered about an inch as well, and I totally agree with you. The stock stance never bothered me much though. I like a comfy ride. Sometimes just taking the stang for a little walk in the park in comfort is nicer than full throttle gear jamming with a suspension that lets the car throw all its inputs at you.

 

[cobrajeff96]

An SN95 Mustang is the wrong car for comfort or any notion of it, even at stock ride height (which isn't just ugly.....it's fugly).

 

[ttocs]

they had to make them that high just to get over some of the speed bumps and the turn offs in az. Even at stock ride height there were some bumps it rubbed on(they take them pretty seriously there) and because they don't get rain often, but when they do it can really come down hard/fast the roads have a little move curve to them to allow the water to go to the side. I know on the turn in to my neighborhood I had to be careful how I entered it or it would scrap right in front of the back wheels.

I still say if you want a good ride and better performance, just dig out the checkbook and go air ride. I have not been sorry I did

 

[shovel]

Just done a preflight for a >3k mile road trip in a couple weeks. Bilsteins, 25mm sway bars at both ends, quad shocks and around 10k miles ago I replaced all the squishy bits front and rear. We've been taking this thing on interstate trips for 12 years and if it's uncomfortable I haven't noticed.

 

[95opal]

The real fix for sport handling is a change in geometry. Ford's design for the SN95 is to have the thing at basically 4x4 height in order to give it a liveable ride. Everything needs to be addressed (roll centers, roll couple, camber gain, basically everything) because the original design was 'good enough for the average customer'. Lowering the SN95 often creates more problems than it fixes. Unfortunately you have to put serious money into it to get it better in both aspects, comfort and performance.

^^^^ this
Don't expect to just throw cookie cutter parts at it.
Drop spindles, control arm relocation brackets, correct length and stiffness coil overs, watts link, torque arm, correct sway bars. Etc
Much more to suspension than a set of springs and shocks.

 

[white95]

^ what he said

 

[duh09]

Mo low is mo betta.

 

[ttocs]

right up till you find that AZ sized speed bump. I swear there were some I was afraid I would high center the car on them at stock height. Again advantage air ride, I fear no speed bumps now....