Greetings long time no post.

I just got tasked with looking into an older style 4.6 Mustang susp and heard of a home made 3 link rear susp setup. Anyone know what this is?

Maybe its lower control arms and a custom torque arm and no upper control arms?

My thoughts on the rear is a set of lower control arms with adj spring mounts and adj upper control arms, but this 3 link thing is interesting.

I think you are talking about a 'poor man's 3-link' popular on the Rustangs, at least pre-SN95s. Add a panhard bar, and pull one of the upper control arms. That way, you can add stiffer bushings and not have the suspension bind in the corners.

thats it thanks, sorry for being dense.

There is a company that makes a torque arm setup for the pre 05 Mustangs, I think its Grigg's Racing that does it. I saw it in a Grassroots Motorsports magazine.

Howdy,

Griggs does, as well as Maximum Motorsports.

From what I've seen, MM's stuff is better engineered. Griggs is kinda equivilent to what you'd do if you were a decent fabricator and you were eyeballing stuff. MM's is engineered. Either will work and be safe, provided you didn't butcher the install.

IMHO.

Steeda has a 'five link' setup that redoes the upper links to make them parallel, then adds a panhard. That, perhaps with some modifications to the "standard" install, or the torque arm kits that bolt to the floor are ESP legal if that matters to you. If it doesn't, mount the torque arm setups to SFCs.

Mark

Howdy,

Oh yeah.

For a poor man's 3 link, pull the driver's side arm. Leaving the passenger side arm will help plant the right rear under acceleration (not as much as a properly engineered offset 3 link, but something is better than nothing).

Mark

Thanks all I found the Steeda 5 link stuff which looked smart but must be a d@mn tight fit in that rear area.

I was curious and couldn't remember the poor man's setup.

I'm gonna stick to my guns with the adj upper arms and adj spring lowers. Its on a vertible stang with no extra power so its p!$$!ng in the wind anyway. I'm just the wrench dummy and only suggest and guy buys and supplies diet cokes (stopped drinking beer a while ago (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/banghead.gif) ).

Also for those with bad memories like mine, I remember a setup for the 4 link rears on Chevelles that used a cage type connection on the upper arms - making the upper arms into a single arm. This was drag race only and built up by a super stock canada guy I think.