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Mail From: ian (Ian McCloghrie)

On Feb 12, 2003 "Brad Franks" wrote:
> Bonuses include better strength and durability as well as lower losses in
> power to turn the wheels. Downsides include piss poor handling...

With leaf springs and trailing arms, yes. With coilovers, torque arms and
panhard rods or watts linkages, they can be made to work reasonably well.
You've still got lots more unsprung weight (not such a big deal on a
nice smooth track) and no camber curve though.

A friend of mine has a track Mustang with a bunch of Griggs suspension
bits on it which is quite competent on the track. Definitely not the
kind of straight-line-only car that most Miata drivers envision a Mustang
being. :)

--Ian

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Mail From: supermiataman (Ben Upton)

yeah, Griggs stuff is totally BADASS, you can make a mustang feel like a
fast miata, it corners good and everything! there's another brand out there
that competes w/ them pretty well, but I can't remember the name.
Ben






>From: Ian McCloghrie <(email redacted)>
>Reply-To: (email redacted)
>To: "Brad Franks" <(email redacted)>
>CC: "Patrick" <(email redacted)>, (email redacted)
>Subject: Re: [Miata] Live Axle? Was Installing Sways Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003
>18:59:13 -0800
>
>On Feb 12, 2003 "Brad Franks" wrote:
> > Bonuses include better strength and durability as well as lower losses
>in
> > power to turn the wheels. Downsides include piss poor handling...
>
>With leaf springs and trailing arms, yes. With coilovers, torque arms and
>panhard rods or watts linkages, they can be made to work reasonably well.
>You've still got lots more unsprung weight (not such a big deal on a
>nice smooth track) and no camber curve though.
>
>A friend of mine has a track Mustang with a bunch of Griggs suspension
>bits on it which is quite competent on the track. Definitely not the
>kind of straight-line-only car that most Miata drivers envision a Mustang
>being. :)
>
>--Ian
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