Mustang SN-95 Frame - Brace Yourself - Tech

Radovich Bent the bracket on the relay box in order to fi t around the brace and allow access to the bolts for removal.

Swift Used an impact gun with a 15mm socket to remove the nuts on the rusty stock sway bar endlinks.

The Steeda endlinks need to be taken apart and reassembled on the car in order to sandwich the polyurethane bushings in between the sway bar, nuts, and control arm.

A 15mm socket also takes off the stock K-member support. This piece, while standard on SN-95s and a world better than Fox-bodies (which had none), is noticeably cracking and rusty, not to mention fl imsy.

To Clearance the long-tube headers, Radical complemented the supplied hardware with a few extra shims. We've yet to hear any rattles or bangs as the motor torques and vibrates.

To Provide a good surface for welding, Swift ground down the undercoating where the subframe connectors would attach. The connectors were mocked up fi rst to establish these areas.

Though Gangsta's many dragstrip passes and hot laps had undoubtedly twisted the chassis, Radovich did his best to weld the connectors as straight as possible and use extra material when necessary. His plan of attack was to fi rst lower the car onto the jackstands in order to load the suspension and put just a few stitches in with the MIG welder. Radovich said he learned from an old chassis builder that it's best to not make the welds continuous, or go all the way around, so instead several small strips of a couple inches or so attach the connectors.

We Had a local shop mount the Goodyear Eagle F1 GS-D3s on Gangsta's Privat 18x9.5 rims. The GS-D3s are the wet-traction brother to the stickyicky F1 Supercar tires and use wide, V-shaped water channels to prevent hydroplaning. With a 280 treadware, expectations were the perfect combination of grip and longevity. This time, a slight stagger was chosen, running 265/40ZR18 front and 275/40ZR18 rear rubber, as that's all the wheelwells would allow (at least up front). On the street, these babies appear to live up to the promise of both excellent dry and wet traction with little road noise.