Half-Breed

[CSG]

Not much progress in the past year sadly. Although I did do some work this evening redesigning my master cylinder reservoir mount. But rework slows a project down faster than no work. Ugh.

Honestly, I haven't done more than drive this car up and down the street by my house, so I cant speak to its performance. Although I'm happy to report no binding creaking banging or other drivability issues. This car is very powerful and easily spins the aged to perfection worn out track tires that are on it, and when doing so, the car behaves predictably has no wheel hop, and has quite a bit of forward bite.

What I like:
You can run a massive front tire without flares, and if you are willing to give up a little turning radius, you can go even wider.

Bruce griggs is very intelligent, and if you can get a hold of him will talk your ear off.

I think the product is robust and well designed.

It has already proven to be 10x better than the only mustang II kit that was on the car in droveabilty alone.



What I dont like:
I purchased a brake kit from griggs right before their buy out of Sierra fell through. So now I have calipers that are hard to find parts or replacements for. Not necessarily their fault, just kind of a bummer deal.

Not much ground clearance under the rear shocks and torque arm. So far I haven't contacted the ground, speed bumps or anything else. And I've put the car on a couple u haul trailers with no issue. So this might not really even be a problem.

Griggs frequently seems like they are having financial trouble which worries me in regard to future support. So please for my sake buy from them lol. I think Bruce is a good guy and means well but his ship times were long (10 years ago now), an it appears coretex is out pacing him in sales with a very similar product. There is speculation that some of the cortex designs came from griggs, but who knows. Point here is Bruce seems to be a nice guy finishing last. I hope for my sake things go better, but that is concerning for a new buyer.


I think if I were to do it again I'd still buy griggs over maier. But the tougher choices would be griggs vs coretex. I think agent 47 is also building some awesome stuff, but not sure you can buy it separate from the car they sell.

Hope this helps, wish I could give you a better review. Hopefully I can make some progress this summer and finally have a chance to really see what this thing can do.

Zach,

I know when cortex first started he came in with his modular spindle. Most of the other parts he had were actual griggs parts or at least exact duplicates. I always kind of thought that he used griggs stuff except where he felt he wanted an updated part. Those always seemed like just a newer version of what griggs had. I am curious if you know anything about what if any relationship there is/was between the two.