[03blkstang]

hey guys wats up , im new to this forum i own a 03 gt

im tired of the way my car handles, this happened since i hit a curb in JAN with both right side tires, sinice then i bought new rims, tires, inner and outer tire rides, aligned the car about 4 times in different places, aligment wise they tell me every thing is perfect, handleing has gotten much better but not wat it was b4 the lil accident, i brought this up to one of my friends today, he mentioned that my sway bars might be broken becuase it sounds like i have "BODY ROLL", my front end feels sord of springy, wobblely, floating up in the air, when i hit a hit those dips or bumps in the freeway it moves alot or even when i down shift hard for a take off, it causes me to over steer and under steer at times, some times it feels heavery that usual in turns some times really light its driving me nutz.

so my question is could this be caused by broker sway bays / body braces ?
if so were exactly are they located in the car, and what do you guys recomend i buy? brands? sizes??

any other sugestions what maybe causing this behavior on the car?

yeah i know ill stop hitting curbz, it was only once!! :-(

[mustangstud13]

First check your sway bar. if that is fine you may wan to consider some frame stiffeners such as: sub-frame connectors are great for rigidity and should help with some of that body roll. also you may need to upgrade your suspension.

[raceruler03]

lower it for one and then get a top mount sway bar. You might one to check the sway bar under the engine. You asked where it was located, you can't miss it.

[99mustang232]

lowering it and replacing the OE struts will do wonders for the front suspension. i would doubt your swaybar is broken, but here is a good site on learning about your suspension components and locations:

http://www.miracerros.com/mustang/t_suspension.htm

[03blkstang]

thx!!

my car is dropped 2 inches from the front 1.8 from the rear with eibach springs, i checked my sway bars today they both seem to be fine.

im not sure what was done to the car becuase i bought it with the eibach springs already on

this are some pics of my car now

[99mustang232]

beautiful stang! would think if you are still running the OE struts and shocks the lowering maybe caused them to wear out faster, mine went before i even lowered it.... would look into getting an aftermarket set... i am partial to bilstein and tokico's but there are plenty of options out there. would do a bounce test on the front end, push down on the front/hood of your stang and see if the front end bounces or if it is firm and returns to it's resting position rather quickly.

[raceruler03]

sweet looking car

[03blkstang]

THX , ILL GO TRY IT WHEN I GET A CHANCE LOL IM AT WORK

[itschristorres8]

your lights...did u just put tints over them? cuz my cars black and im puttting black rims with a chrome lip on it but i want my light like that.

[03blkstang]

i used film i can take it off and put it back on

[mustangstud13]

hey do you have stock struts and springs with the Eibach's or are they aftermarket? i was just wondering b/c i am putting eibach's on and need to know if i need to change the struts and springs?
Your stang looks sweet by the way, love the head lights. what brand of film did you use?

[raceruler03]

I've got eibach sportline and I didnt replace anything

[03blkstang]

thx

honestly i dont know what they replaced, i bought the car with the springs on already, i know their eibac thats it, lowered 2 front 1.8 rear, the film i just bought it from ebay

[03blkstang]

to make it clearer my car sord of feels like those old long cadillacs that feel like boats on calm water, ne ideas ne one?

[99mustang232]

still thinking your "floatyness" is coming from the struts and shocks, but since yours is dropped 2 inches up front i would assume the previous owner installed caster/camber plates or the places you took it too wouldn't be able to set the propper caster and camber settings for your alignment. do you know what the shops used as the alignment settings, it should be on their printouts (caster/camber/toe). also you should be able to look at the struts and shocks to tell what was replaced, the OE one's are black what color are yours? what happend on the bounce test?

[DragonFreak]

how hard did you hit the curb....if you had to replace 2 rims and tires it must have been pretty hard... have you had a shop look and make sure nothing was bent? with the car on stands look at both side and see if every thing looks the same

[03blkstang]

i did the test, and car seems nice and stiff, it goes right back were it was, as for how hard i hit? it was pretty hard i popped both tires on the right side, i put all 4 new tires on the rims, the handleing was screwed up really bad their so i decided to get new tires and rims, and took it to a i diff shop, it got much better but still not were it was.....as for the color of the struts n shocks let me get back at you on that one

edit: oh and and the all 3 shops told me their was nothing bent on the car

[03blkstang]

any 1?

[99mustang232]

what are your alignment settings from the shops printout, or did they do factoy specs?

[03blkstang]

i just checked the paper they gave me its nothing but a reciep :-\