If anyone has tried the 5/5 setting for street use, please post your impression. It kind of difficult for my old eyes to **** with rears too often. I'm tempted to just set them once and forget the.

 

I am at 3/3 now. It rained today so no joy riding. I will leave it there then go to 4 then 5. I want to get use to a setting before I change to see the difference.

 

Let me know where you end up.

 

Scott is 3 still soft?

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Really hard to say because I have not really driven it much. It feels great on 2/2 and 3/3 and did not feel the difference. I need more time to get use the car in general, you know after time you can feel if one tire is a pound low or that tiny little noise. I am not anyway near that point yet.

In any case I would not call it soft, the ride has been very nice so far, I tend to like a very firm ride anyway and on 2/2 I am getting that. I am looking to find changing the setting does to hard cornering. I drove with a 2 rear and 3 front yesterday, should have been 3/3, and in back of an Autozone there is a winding street. I took a right 135 degree turn hard in second, then a 90 turn about 75 feet ahead, again in 2nd. For a second the rear started sliding out but grabbed in a right away. I don't think it was from spinning the tires, it felt more like the whole back end slid out (right) just a bit.

Anyway I am not a race car driver and need a whole lot more time before I can give anyone reliable info on all this.

 

Interesting thank you

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It would be interesting to know the real difference between the std and LS settings. Are the rumors true that LS 1 is close to Std 5 ?

 

I do recall one of the hot shoe reviews had the fronts at 5 and the rears at 3.

 

In for the updates. Have fun testing the settings.

 

I did not know there was a difference, the difference I know if is things like tires/rims, X-brace, Torsen standard, gauges, and a one mm thicker stabilizer in the rear (I will check mine but not sure the Boss gets the same if you order the torsen).

Boss

Rear
3-link solid axle with limited-slip differential, coil springs,

Panhard bar, 25.0 mm stabilizer bar and adjustable shock damping

LS SUSPENSION

Front
Independent MacPherson strut with Reverse-L lower control arm, 34.6 mm tubular stabilizer bar, strut tower brace, adjustable strut damping

Rear
3-link solid axle with Torsen limited-slip differential, coil springs, Panhard bar, 26.0 mm stabilizer bar, body X-brace and adjustable shock damping

 

I don't think it's rumor, it's fact. I believe the Road and Track review makes a comment about that.

 

iirc, MotorTrend started the rumor of a significant difference between the std and LS settings. Until we can get someone to look up shock part numbers on both cars...

 

But what is the real feel difference?

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I could be wrong but what comes out of the motor mags is often not correct, if there was a big difference I would think Ford would have mentioned it. I really would be suprised to see two different adjustable struts and shocks.

 

They (again I've read so many reviews but I'm pretty sure it was R&T) stated something like the LS was ok for around town and short trips but would be uncomfortable for long drives. I'll see if I can find the review.

 

I'm pretty sure I read a quote from Ford on it as well.

 

I'm sure it will be fine for long trips

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Well it wasn't R&T, MT, or C&D. I'll keep looking.

 

Well as I said the ride on 2/2 is pretty firm, much more than most anything on the road. I use to drive my 87 Turbo Coupe in "firm ride" all the time, it was nice but this is of course is way better. I was blowing down a country road at over a hundred, came up on some patches in the asphalt and the car really snaps back after going over them. There is no long wave type feeling (sorry I can not find the right words to describe this). Anyway so much to the point it scared me because I was being stupid, this was the first time on this "country" road. So I finished the length of the normally and punched it on the return trip since I knew there was no big potholes in the road.

 

Ford did say that 5 on the Boss was equivalent to 1 on the LS. There are different part numbers for Boss vs LS shocks. Looking for a reference now...