S650 2024 Ecoboost Build Thread Profile - S650 Mustangs

[Craig Woldt]

This is the Build Thread for 2024 Ecoboost. Reply below.

 

[Bill Pemberton]

Welcome as one of the last members of 2023 and remember tires are your fist and fastest option.

 

[Craig Woldt]

Welcome as one of the last members of 2023 and remember tires are your fist and fastest option.

Thanks Bill. I have ordered my wheels and tires and am just waiting for them to arrive. I went with Konig Heliogram wheels and Bridgestone Potenza RE-71RS tires

 

[Bill Pemberton]

No aware of those wheels , but super choice on the RE71RSs!!!

 

[Craig Woldt]

Got some new Go Fast parts! Konig Heliogram wheels and Koni Sports. I am getting the RE71RS tires mounted on Thursday and then have the first Autocross of the year on January 7th. Hopefully, I can find the time to install the Koni's before then.

 

[Bill Pemberton]

Get your car aligned after you install the shocks . Do you happen to have camber plates for the front end?

 

[Craig Woldt]

Get your car aligned after you install the shocks . Do you happen to have camber plates for the front end?

Thank you Bill I definitely will be getting an alignment after the shocks are installed. So I probably won't be installing them until after the event on the 7th,
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[Bill Pemberton]

Check out Vorshlag ( site sponsor ) or M&M for front camber plates, that way if installed when the shocks are it would cut down costs ( if someone else is doing it ). If you are doing it yourself then you have everything ready for a street/track alignment which will give you better turn in, higher gs, and save the outside edge of your tires -- so more tire life.

 

[Craig Woldt]

Got the tires mounted yesterday and just finished installing the new wheels and tires just in time for an Autocross on Sunday.

 

[Bill Pemberton]

Good luck tomorrow and those gumball Bridgerocks will keep your Stang stuck. Do go out and drive on them prior to the event to get all the release lubricant off. Many of us have had fun first laps on a track or autocross course because we did not get that film all off and instead of sticking to the ground we were slip sliding away!

Post some pics from tomorrow and have fun !

 

[blacksheep-1]

Just so you know, those cars are serious sleepers. Phoenix owned T4 with those cars for 2 or 3 years until they were BoP'd out of competition in the SCCA

 

[Craig Woldt]

I ran my second Autocross event ever on 1-7-24. It was a big improvement over my first one. My best raw time was 65.809 and my pax time was 53.305. Raw time was 9.201 seconds off of the fastest car and pax time was 6.547 seconds off. I was also competitive in my group only 0.525 off the time of the winner of DS. A giant improvement over The December event when I was 20.351 seconds off raw, 13.872 seconds off PAX, and 9.335 seconds off in my group. below is a link to YouTube if you would like to see my fastest run.

 

[Bill Pemberton]

I would focus, at this point, on where you place behind others in your Class, and only 1/2 second behind the Winner is great.
Thanks for posting and glad you had a great time. I am gazing out the window at 5 inches of fresh snow so, yes, I am envious !!

 

[Craig Woldt]

I would focus, at this point, on where you place behind others in your Class, and only 1/2 second behind the Winner is great.
Thanks for posting and glad you had a great time. I am gazing out the window at 5 inches of fresh snow so, yes, I am envious !!

Thank you Bill. I focus on my class at the track and then pay attention to the other times when I get home. I am pretty proud of the improvement I had against the same group of DS cars. That's the nice thing about Las Vegas, we run in the winter but take the summer months off when it's 115 degrees here. We still get 12 Autocross events in and some Time Trials and track days also.

 

[TeeLew]

This is my wheelhouse. Eco's are great parking lot warriors. We've naturally got more front end than the V8 cars and similar torque. Pretty much every canned spring package you can buy has a front that's too soft and a rear that's too stiff, so you've got a decision to make there. Beyond that, there's about a million other changes to get it in CAM shape.

 

[Craig Woldt]

This is my wheelhouse. Eco's are great parking lot warriors. We've naturally got more front end than the V8 cars and similar torque. Pretty much every canned spring package you can buy has a front that's too soft and a rear that's too stiff, so you've got a decision to make there. Beyond that, there's about a million other changes to get it in CAM shape.

My plan is to stay in DS. Not sure I want to go down the CAM rabbit hole.

 

[Bill Pemberton]

Rabbit hole, many wish that was all it was, CAM is a more like a mile deep Meteor crater !

 

[TeeLew]

It can be tough to be competitive in DS or STU against the smaller cars. Depending on how deep you want to get, start with every bushing in the car. CAM is a lot more about building what you want and letting the chips fall where they may. There will *always* be someone doing more, but at least you're running against cars with a similar base architecture and you can put the alignment on that you want. It's a damned if you do/damned if you don't scenario.

 

[Craig Woldt]

I installed the Koni Sports today. I have a Time Trials event on January 21st. I'm excited to see the difference they make.

 

[Bill Pemberton]

Congrats as that was the reasonable price shock set up that a bunch of guys in stock Classes went to for better hook up and balance -- with plenty of success. We will be interested to get your assessment of how well they worked after the 21st.