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Originally Posted by syr74
I could. Basic suspension design is, if I had to hazard a guess, about 10% of the handling equation, how well that suspension is setup is the other 90%. Put simply a great live axle setup will absolutely be superior to a mediocre IRS, or even a simply good IRS setup for that matter. Is that what is happening here? I can't really say since there is a meaningful disparity in weight. That said, I do suspect that the Mustang piece is a bit better sorted and that the pony would still win the prize here even if weight were equal.
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i would have to fully disagree with you on that. and of course any system can be made better, the tech has only been around since horses where pulling us around in wodden karts...
however there are allot of reason why you would want irs for handling and not have the wheels tied together sharing the same dyn that the oppsit wheel is dealing with. yea you can make it handle but if you had a choice to build a track car i could not see anyone in there right mind opting for a soild rear... just dosnt make sense
and the gt 500 did pull a good g. but a lateral g testing really dosnt prove handling dynamics when it comes to a track. a lateral g test test the car in a circle going one direction. dosnt deal with directional change, side to side, or power transfer under load. saloom times is what you should be looking at and even that isnt the end all or be all of handling dyn.
what makes the gt500 great around a track is the fact that it has the tq to pull it out of the turns and the rubber to lay it down. slow in fast out however are you saying that if the cobra had irs that the time around the track would be slower???
im not hating on the 5.0 or cobra at all. Both are great cars. but we are talking about a stock camaro and stock 5.0, what i was trying to say to the first post was, that its not that the camaro irs sucks or that the the sra in mustang make it handle better. it comes down weight