SIDEWAYS MUSTANG
Q: I enjoy your column in HMM, Ray — I always learn something! Here’s one for you: I have a 1968 Mustang coupe that has a 1970 302 (bored to 306-cu.in.) making about 375 hp, a TCI Street Fighter C4 automatic with a TCI 3,000-rpm stall converter, and a 9-inch axle out of a ’78 Lincoln Versailles. The 9-inch is equipped with factory disc brakes, a 31-spline Detroit Locker, and Moser axles. It had a spool before the locker. The driveshaft is stock with stock U-joints. The axle sits on stock leaf springs (it bolted right in) and I use South Side Machine lift bars to control wheel hop. I run a 26-inch-tall drag radial on factory steel wheels for the track and the same size Cooper Cobra tires on Torq-Thrust wheels for the street.
The issue is that when I do a burnout (track or street), the car drifts to the driver’s side so severely that I have to stop the burnout after one or two seconds. On street tires, it’s almost as bad. It happens immediately and severely when the wheels start to spin. It’s much worse at
