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Letter Number 2
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Ok today's topic is: How does the appearance of your
car affect your performance. (Such as lowering,
various size wheels, and ground effects.
Below
Apperance and Performance
Ok now: do things like lowering hurt performance. It
depends. Ok lets take a stock 1989 Mustang LX, 5oh,
5-speed. Ok the LX's performance numbers:
| 0-60 mph |
6.4 sec |
| 0-100 mph |
17.3 sec |
| 1/4 Mile |
15.1 |
@ |
93.2 mph |
| Top Speed |
147.8 |
Ok now lets say you want to add ground effects. Ok so
we'll use the Mustang GT as an example. (The extra
body pieces added to the GT are ground effects, but
you knew that right?)
| 0-60 mph |
6.5 sec |
| 0-100 mph |
18.0 sec |
| 1/4 Mile |
15.2 |
@ |
92.0 mph |
| Top Speed |
140.0 |
Ok so what happened ? Well first off the ground adds
weight. (weight=evil) Ground effects also adds extra
drag. So ground effects are bad right ? It
depends on the car and what you want. The ground
effects help handling if the car is lowered, the
ground effects also can help acceleration to. Now if
you notice the only big difference is top speed, but
how often are you going to do 140 mph ? So if you like
the way ground effects look get them, they don't make
enough of a difference in acceleration to care and
will help your handling.
Ok next: how about lowering your Mustang. Ok now lets
say you buy lowering springs for your 89 Mustang GT
(1.5 inch). Ok now if you compare the chart below with
the stock GT numbers
Above
you will notice that the car is just a
tad bit slower than in the stock form. Ok but,
this difference was made up on the skidpad. The lower
you go, with in reason, the better the car will
handle. With the 1.5 inch lowering springs the car
picked up two g's and 1 mph on the skid pad.
| 0-60 mph |
6.5 sec |
| 0-100 mph |
18.1 sec |
| 1/4 Mile |
15.2 |
@ |
91.9 mph |
| Top Speed |
139.0 |
Ok next: Do you wonder how 16's might affect your
car's performance or maybe 17's ? Ok now first off
obvisuly wider is better. The wider your tire is
(within reason) the quicker your car will hook up
hence better acceleration. Also the wider the tires
the more your handling will improve. Ok the stock
Mustang GT comes with 225/15/60's.
For those of you who don't know what these numbers
mean here it is:
The first number (225) is how wide the tire is.
The second number (15) is the height of the wheel
The third number (60) is the height of the actual
tire.
Ok here is the stock GT performance numbers again:
| 0-60 mph |
6.5 sec |
| 0-100 mph |
18.0 sec |
| 1/4 Mile |
15.2 |
@ |
92.0 mph |
| Top Speed |
140.0 |
Ok now lets say you change from a 225/15/60 to a
225/16/60 now look at the difference.
| 0-60 mph |
6.5 sec |
| 0-100 mph |
18.0 sec |
| 1/4 Mile |
15.2 |
@ |
92.0 mph |
| Top Speed |
141.0 |
As you may notice the results are virtually the same
(17's,18's, and even 19,s had similar results). Now
keep in mind these all these tires were 225/ x /60's.
Overall remember that this car was stock and
the tire changes would have made a bigger difference
on a modified car. In genral a shorter tire will make
you quicker and a taller tire will give you more top
end.
I would like to give props to Doug Dalrymple. I
recieve some rude comments from Chevy, Chrysler, etc.
fans, everynow and then, but, Doug, a Chrysler
owner, was very polite and even signed the guestbook.
Thanks Doug Dalrymple.
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Mr5oh