New IRS for Fox Body Fords Makes Corner Carving Less Taxing

Fox Body (1979-93) fanatics know there’s not much you can’t do with Ford’s versatile vehicle platform. But there’s always been a final frontier: to make these lightweight, highly customizable vehicles inherently more refined with a fully Independent Rear Suspension (IRS).

While Ford did us all a solid by adapting the IRS from their MN-12 platform to the 1999-04 SVT Mustang Cobra, those parts are thin on the ground in 2024. Plus they are all used by now, and benefit from aftermarket upgrades to handle track use and high horsepower powertrains.

RideTech now has a solution that seems to check all the boxes, and it’s based on the well regarded 2015-23 Mustang rear suspension. This suggests RideTech’s kit will be readily available, well-engineered, and possibly even affordable compared to prices for used Cobra IRSs online. But at $4,500 plus ancillaries, perhaps two out of three is good enough?

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(photo credit: RideTech)