[cobrashoch]

Bill - I assumed you would have be using 2 arms on each side. If not, you would have had a nightmare on your hands. Oh where to start. Changing to shorter arms will leave the new arms suspension free hanging at the same angles as your stock arms. What else that changes though is the arcs that the arms travel in and the arcs that the rack ends and hub travel in. From a hot rodders standpoint with stock stuff, what you ideally want is the racks output arms to run parallel to the lower arm and follow that arm up and down in parallel as it travels. If it don't you will get bump steer into it. A little angle here is normal I've seen though the years, and so is a little bump steer. This is usially easly set up right when you narrow the middle of a stock mustang2 setup by changing the rack and/or moving the racks mounting points up or down. When you use shorter arms you are changing the stock geometry travel arcs into a area were you best should know what you are doing. It can be done, and has been done a bunch, but there are tradeoffs to be made. And again carefull measurements have to be made to do it right. Yes, it's generally better to narrow a Mustang2 setup than to change to shorter arms. The more suspension travel you have on rough streets the better. You can allways limit stock suspension travel using several ways, to help cornering performance. But because the smaller arms travel in smaller arcs, you will also need to limit the susp. travel quicker than the stock arms because the travel arcs errors get wilder, faster on the smaller arms. That said there is some giveway built into a mustang2 setups and thats why it's such a popular choice with hot rodders, and those shorter arms could work IF, IF , IF,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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