What do I think of the Car?
So now that we are hitting events often and the car is coming together, I am ready to start getting a bit more ambitious with setup and power.
First off I am ordering up a set of cylinder heads a larger MAF and possibly some equal length headers. Now that we have the car working decent from a suspension point of view, it has become painfully obvious that they car needs a bit more grunt.
Once I get more power in car, I want to stiffen up the chassis a bit and add proper racing seats. This year we actually plan to enter the car into Top Drift Battle and Drift Day completions, so I want to take some steps to make the car more consistent. A big part of consistency is making the driver comfortable, and giving him good feedback from the chassis.
Lastly, I desperately need to sort out the front end setup on the car. I believe that we have all the right parts up front, now it is time to figure out the best alignment (caster, camber, toe) settings, rack position, and bump steer reduction.
As always, I will post up my findings and mods right here on DriftMustang.com
About Geoff
I have been building cars since about 1996 when I bought a 1966 Chevelle Malibu and modified it. My first exposure to drifting was back in 2004 when the shop (Hotrods to Hell) that I worked at was commissioned to build the 1969 Camaro that was campaigned in the 2005 Formula D series. In order to get a better idea of what the Camaro needed to be capable of I went to the Formula D Irwindale event and was instantly hooked.
My approach to car building is methodical. As you watch along with our build you will notice that we only make a few changed between each episode. I do not believe in throwing a bunch of parts at a problem and hoping it will be solved.
When you are developing a chassis for the first time you need to take you time and establish what I call a "vocabulary for the car." Basically what this means is that you need to learn what impact different parts and modifications will have on the car and on each other.
My roadmap for the Mustang was first to address the inconsistency in the car. The coilovers, panhard bar, and rollcage have done wonders in that direction. Then since this is a drift car, we need to make some drift specific modification, steering angle and LSD. The next move is to fine tune the car, getting the right spring rate, finding alignment settings that work well, trying different sway bars.
If you have any questions for me or suggestions for the car, you can make a post in the forum.
-Geoff
There is a set of AFR heads that are really awesome and give the 5.0 about 100 HP just with a couple bolts on and if you just google: 400hp 5.0, you should find the article on carcraft.com that shows them getting 400hp just from the heads and headers with the stock cam so if you get a bigger cam with rocker arms and full bolt on's 500hp doesnt seem so far away even just being naturally aspirated. A turbo sounds good too with the high RPM's that the 5.0 is srceaming during your drift sessions.
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