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Originally Posted by JusticePete
Fast around a race track means loose. A professional driver can throw a car around the track that is loose and do it with a degree of safety. The solid axle Mustang is loose because of the solid rear axle. We can't set the Mustang as low as we would like because we bind up the rear axle forcing the inside wheel to come loose so we compromise on the CG and corner weighting.
The Camaro is much easier to drive fast on track because it has an IRS. In a straight line race we are talking about 302 pounds as a weight advantage for the Mustang with fluids and driver ready to run. 300 pounds is significant in a straight line race. I do not have the mathematical skills to convert the weights to the road course, but we are not talking about a 300 pound advantage when you are turning a corner a 1.3 gs The 300 pounds becomes a much larger number. The same is true when you apply the brakes for 100+ MPH.
The real secret will be to produce an American Muscle Car that weighs the same as a Mustang with an IRS. It doesn't matter if it is Ford or Chevy that do it. A Mustang weight IRS equipped car would beat either the Camaro or current Mustang. An IRS is vastly superior for everything a car does with the sole exception of drag racing. That said, there are 9 second GTOs running with K member based IRS that are ancient by current design standards so you can drag an IRS vehicle.
I own both cars. I know them both intimately. I like them both. At the end of the day I want the Mustang to have an IRS and the Camaro to be 300 pounds lighter.
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I have two questions for you. Does the overall "better vision" that the cabin in the Mustang provides over the Camaro offer you any advantage or disadvantage when racing against other vehicles at the same time? Which one between the two would you prefer as a daily driver?