Long a staple of Mustang performance handling, the aftermarket is finally waking up to the Fox Cougar/Thunderbird chassis. These caster/camber plates will help give you a more precise alignment for better tire wear. In conjuction with lowering springs, the plates will give a much wider range of settings for getting your car back into alignment specs. Plus, you can have one setting for street driving, another for the road course, and another for the drag strip --- all possible through multiple markings on the plates. They are available for the Cougar/T-Bird chassis through just one company, Maximum Motorsports, and they retail for about $200 US a pair which is comparable to Mustang units. One piece of advice: you must find a shop that can align the car using these plates. You will not want just anyone to do this for you. A complete set of specifications will come with the plates so that you can have the alignment shop easily get all your adjustment specs marked for you.

In case you're wondering, the plates won't really help much with a stock, unlowered suspension. So if you want them just for looks or to say you have them, you're not really spending money on something useful. For the $200, you can get a lot more done to the car in other areas.

Also, several people have modified Mustang plates for their cars. They really don't do justice to our suspension. Considering that the Cougar/T-Bird plates are the same price, it would be illogical to use them.

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