This is what happens to your stock diff with sticky tires.

 

Because some us care how the care handles.

 

LMAO!!

 

The 8.8 could be tuned to handle just as good as the IRS in the RX7.

 

I have to disagree there. A solid axle simply will not hold a candle to an independant suspension in handling. If you compare totally stock IRS to a highly modified live axle maybe. But that's like comparing a stock motor and a massaged one....

Why else would the guys who try and race mustangs on the road course swap for the new cobra IRS? In the quarter it is going to awesome as there is no better way to get power to the ground, but that is only a small fraction of many FD owners' needs. Most of us love the car for the handling. If I wanted only awesome power I would have bought an F-body or a Mustang.

J

 

Why would you totally ruin the handling? Yes there advantages of having the IRS but there are also plenty of modifications to the live axle to make it handle extremely well. I am NOT setting my car up for road racing. Have never road raced it. Will never road race it so the handling issue is irrelevent.

If we wanting the car or a customers car set up with a live axle and for road course we would camber the axle, place the shocks and springs in the most mechanically efficient area, install a evs torque sensative differential, watts designed panhard, and a variable rate adjustable anti roll bar also, the axle would be design is around a floating type 4 link suspension with all spherical rod ends.

 

I do have to agree with you there Eric. You have a car that is build / being built for a sole purpose. This axle is by far better, cheaper, and easier then dealing with the stock seven rear end for going in a straight line quickly.

For most others it isn't a choice they would like, given the handling drawbacks.

Regardless, can't wait to see it stomp the ground at the strip, even if I can waste you around the bends

J

 

bringing this thread back from the dead....