1969 Torino

[FETorino]

Originally Posted by Vegas69

There is a Ford GT that shows up to most events so you can test your theory.

My only theory is it will be an exciting car to drive and something a little different.

Well Todd you know as well as anyone once I get this thing to the track it will be a long road of tuning to get it "fast".

I've chosen some good parts and am working with good people for the base. I'll have plenty of power delivery and a chassis with good geometry to tune.

Spring rates, sway bar rates, shock valving, air pressure, yada yada yada..... There will be a lot of things to sort out. Step one I just need to keep focused on building a running car.

[FETorino]

Originally Posted by Track Junky

Your killin' me dude

Dont mind me...Carry on......Please

Well Gae I told you this was coming back on post 120 something It's just taken me Flash time to get to it.

First I planned the build and got the chassis and drivetrain, wheels, tires and Brakes. Pretty much have that handled so....

Now it's time to plan the tune so I can buy the springs, shocks and bars. I still have a little bit of rework to do on some parts after my recent education into what I didn't know about chassis tuning.

I'll have some more big updates in a few weeks. For now I just want to focus on chassis tuning.

Ron was going to walk through roll center and it's use as a tuning tool. OBTW Ron I see you changed the picture but I still don't see the wheels.

That is something I didn't focus enough attention on initially. I guess it fell into the yada yada yada column and got overlooked. Not the end of the world but if you really want your car to be tunable it is somehting you should be educated on.

Originally Posted by FETorino

06-24-2012, 10:46 AM

My only theory is it will be an exciting car to drive and something a little different.

Well Todd you know as well as anyone once I get this thing to the track it will be a long road of tuning to get it "fast".

I've chosen some good parts and am working with good people for the base. I'll have plenty of power delivery and a chassis with good geometry to tune.

Spring rates, sway bar rates, shock valving, air pressure, yada yada yada..... There will be a lot of things to sort out. Step one I just need to keep focused on building a running car.

[Track Junky]

Couldn't agree more and I'm glad you've seen the light. My only gripe is having to ask questions about my car in your thread. Just dont feel it's appropriate.

My feeling is that all of the info that Ron has posted that is in general and not specific to your car should be placed in a "Suspension Technology" sticky for all to go to.

[Ron Sutton]

Originally Posted by Track Junky

Couldn't agree more and I'm glad you've seen the light. My only gripe is having to ask questions about my car in your thread. Just don't feel it's appropriate.

My feeling is that all of the info that Ron has posted that is in general and not specific to your car should be placed in a "Suspension Technology" sticky for all to go to.

What I'd rather do, is leave all the info I created for Rob here ... and start another thread ... or threads ... specifically to discuss suspension set-ups & tuning. But Rob already asked about roll centers, so I'll post that here next. Than we can start a new thread or two.

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[67goatman455]

I am definitely seeing some "jiffy-pop" after looking at that photo

She's 25?! I'm 25! We have so much in common!!!





On a side note, i need some asprin to get through all the technical data that i want to learn so badly!

[Track Junky]

That would be great Ron....Then maybe one of these mods could turn it into a sticky

[intocarss]

Originally Posted by Track Junky

That would be great Ron....Then maybe one of these mods could turn it into a sticky

You'd like that wouldn't you

[Ron in SoCal]

So where's all these parts updates I keep hearing about?