Giving our Mustang a race-ready alignment

Tim
Update by Tim Suddard to the Ford Mustang Fastback project car
Jul 28, 2024 | Mustang, alignment

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For a good race alignment, we took our 1965 Ford Mustang race car down to longtime friend Geoff Thompson, owner of Alignment Shop, Inc., in Ormond Beach, Florida.

His background in SCCA race car setup serves us well and, while there is not much alignment you can do on a Mustang, he managed to get close to a degree of negative camber and a bit more caster into our old Mustang.

[What is Camber, caster and toe? | Handling basics]

He set the toe slightly out for better turn-in. Too much toe-out will slow the car down on the straights and make the car unstable.

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mikerunt
mikerunt GRM+ Memberand New Reader
4/18/24 8:22 p.m.

How did you set the rear up being a straight axle 

300zxfreak
300zxfreak Reader
4/19/24 9:45 a.m.

Highly informative.

BA5
BA5 GRM+ Memberand HalfDork
9/28/24 10:17 a.m.

I think the rest of the article didn't post.

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