[Warez]

I’ve seen this question thrown around very often on numerous F car forums with no real consensus reached. So which do you guys think is the better handling platform, the 3rd or 4th gen? Also was the 4th gen front suspension a superior design to the modified McPherson setup used on the 3rd gens? I often hear 3rd gen owners saying the 4th gen setup is inferior.

[KeithO]

third gens are lighter and more narrow than fourth gens..

both cars have front suspensions that WORK..

both cars have limited negative camber unless you modify them..

it is HELLA easier to work on fourth gen brakes!


third gens have proven to be much faster cars in Autocross(weight&width) but there isn't a clear winner in road racing


the real question is: Which car looks cooler? third gens! (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

That is my experience as well. (Including which looks cooler).

I have owned/tracked/autocrossed both a stock L98 88 IROC and a stock 98 LS1 Z28 within the last 5 years. In autocross, I was a mid-pack F-Stock driver with the IROC and pretty much won every event after a short learning curve with the LS1. It's hard to say how much my driving improved over the timeframe.

I can say that the 2.77 rear in the IROC versus the 3.42 in the Z28 had some influence.

I have thought about the 3rd versus 4th gen thing many times. If I could trade my 4th gen road race car for a similarly-prepared 3rd gen road race car in comparable condition, I would do it in a heartbeat.