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Originally Posted by BadAim
I'm a Chevy guy myself (though I'm presently carless [if you exclude my 300HP service van]) but I'm a lover of all things with wheels that make the ground rumble. I'll see if I can dig up some photos of my cars. My favorite was a '69 350hp SS 396 Chevelle (I'll miss that car 'till the day they chuck me in the dirt).
Edit: You remember the Crane Fireball cam? I had one in that Chevell.....I don't remember the specs specifically, but it was ground on 108 degree centers to give it a nice lope at idle but she made power from 2500 to 6000, with the 650 spread bore double pumper it was as drivable as grannys car but had all the power I could ever use at 18. I really learned how to drive sideways it that car.  |
I'm a Ford guy for a few reasons: They've never messed up the mustang. In all the years it's been in production, up to the mustang of today, the entire engine is visible under the hood (can touch the bell housing) and there isn't a mustang made that you can't remove the entire engine and transmission in one huge chunk in less than 2 hours. I don't care if it's a 2012 or a 70 fastback, they were designed for ease of tuning. That's probably why no other car in the world has anywhere close to the amount of aftermarket parts for it.
Back in the 60's Henry Ford had a deal worked out with Ferrari to purchase the company. Ferrari backed out. Henry got mad enough, that he called all his engineering support staff together and basically told them to build a car to destroy Ferrari at LeMans. The Ford GT40 won LeMans 4 years straight. Pretty cool for a car company to be as passionate about cars as that. Now you see CEOs for large companies that have nothing to do with the business operations at all. (Potato chip company CEO's taking a job and working for a hand tool company and so forth)
The other reason is quite simply, they've made their tuner car (the mustang) to be easy to make power. There isn't a single mustang made past 1996 (mod motor cars - 2v,3v,4v 4.6's) that won't handle 500RWHP with a completely stock base engine. Depending on the transmission, that's over 600hp at the flywheel. Pretty impressive for an inexpensive car. For a mustang, just buy a blower kit (twin screw whipple, etc.) and have a 10 second car with a simple bolt on and tune. It will get good gas mileage, and drive/idle just like a factory car.
The mod motors (4.6/5.4's) use cracked rod caps (they will not shift EVER), cross bolted main caps, and depending on the block, splayed caps. There isn't a single factory 4.6/5.4 block made, whether it came from a ford truck or ford car (aluminum or steel blocks - types depend on the car/truck) that won't handle at least 800hp from the factory. The steel blocks handle well over 1000hp to give you an idea.
The reason the Ford GT still holds the standing mile record and has for almost 5 years is because there isn't a manufacturer out there that has built their car knowing full well people like me are going to try to get some crazy HP #'s out of it. The Ford GT has roughly 500 flywheel horsepower from the factory. Well here's a stock bottom end (all OEM), stock fuel system (all OEM), with 2 turbo's mounted on it. Well over 1000 rear wheel horsepower (1300-1500 at the flywheel) that's 100% daily driven and reliable. I know they tried to do this to a few vettes (new zr1's) and all of them blew up on the dyno, because the internals are not made to take it. 800hp and kaboom. Those guys at SVT know people like me exist. And for that, I'm very grateful.
But just like you, I like all powerful cars. V8's are definitely my thing though.
Just check this out:
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Originally Posted by 335th_GRAthos
Jesus! You mean you are allowed to drive this car on the normal road???
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Well yeah! It's a fuel injected mustang
It idles and drives just like a factory car. Heck, it's not really that much louder than one either (until you get on it) I can cruise and get 22mpg without my foot in it. Granted I don't have air conditioning, power brakes, heat/defrost, and much creature comforts anymore. But by all means, it would pass an emissions test and I could drive it across the country without any problems. I still have a check engine light
