i cant imagine having to go down 8 gears to blast out a corner is very fun. in a manual you go from 5th or 6th straight to 2nd if you like.
Kickdown my friend.
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Kickdown my friend.
350 is my new all time favourite looking one, 350 hood, bumper and fenders will come for MY18 GT as they have done for MY15 so could just replicate that like my buddy did with his yellow one.
Looks fantastic, not usually a fan of white but that styling looks incredible, even a bit Dodge Viper like but even better.
I've never being blasting through a corner in 5th or 6th then needing to drop to 2nd, as Para says you best get some driving lessons.
Also the box has 7 acceleration gears, 3 overdrives. In manual mode (paddles) I suspect I shall simply just always be one gear higher than you'd normally be due to short ratios, this is also great because when you have paddles its actually more fun the more you use them, its one of the reasons I shortened the ratio on my M3 so I could smash through gears more and enjoy better acceleration. Also with an auto in manual mode, just pull the paddle twice quick to drop two gears in one go, but as said any good driver would be in the right gear before corner.
Indeed, if it was such a problem with sequential gears then motorcyclists would be buggered!
Pop down the gears under braking before the corner.
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Indeed, if it was such a problem with sequential gears than motorbikes would be buggered!
Exactly, extra man points for doing it properly with heel toe downshifts
Exactly, extra man points for doing it properly with heel toe downshifts
No chance of that in an auto haha, it just does the rev matching for you, I am hoping the 10-speed will also introduce big proper shouty blips like the M-DCT does on the older V8 M3's, but I am probably hoping for too much there haha. Should just have purchased an E92 M3 and start collecting M3's.
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no doubt you will get it looking great.
i still think this is the best looking mustang.
That color combo always makes me think Dodge Viper
Right now unconfirmed.
Plan A: Leave the car pretty much as it is right now, KW's, Wheels the whole lot and advertise it around November for £39,000, basically including rough expenditure of modifications.
Plan B: Return it as close to stock as possible, just leaving it with lowering springs, stock wheels spaced out along with RTR bodykit and wing, so in short looks like it did just before I changed wheels. Sell for around £33,000! Then the KW's, sequential lights, wheels, brakes, anti-roll bars, shelby wheel shall all be sold privately as I can probably generate around £5000 selling those parts used.
Plan C: Completely back to stock (well within reason, stuff like uprated toe bearings, green calipers, attached bodykit will stay), sell it to a trader for 30-32k and sell the huge collection of parts I have.
Ideally I'd like to take the following parts over to the new car if compatible:
- Steeda rear top mounts (don't bind as spherical bearing instead of rubber) they give better ride and stronger
- BMR CB005 cradle lock out
- BMR spherical vertical links
- Steeda front chassis brace
- K&N panel filter
- SCT handheld tuner (then it only cost me $200 to tune the new one to 500HP) or even FREE as I get on well with the tuner and I've sent him a lot of UK customers. Hence them letting me know they have 3 MY18 due in November for testing.
- Current wheels on the new one as will really suite the orange
That is probably it to be honest as Ford now selling Mustang global its becoming more and more like a European car both in styling and options, in short the car is becoming much more capable out the box. The performance market will hate Ford for it because Mustangs have always being a blank slate, they either handle/perform very poor or just OK and people then modify them to get to where they want to be.
As such apart from the above the only other handling part I shall probably fit is the FRPP GT 350 lowering springs that drop a GT 350 20mm and work with magneride. The rest of my focus shall be a set of headers (UK companies now doing RHD) so should cost £2000 fitted and take her close to 550HP which with 10 speed is going to be circa 3.5s to 60 and around 7s to 100mph, for me that is quick enough, its more or less GTR performance that you can use. No point in supercharging as its a daily car and not some crazy weekend warrior and to be honest my current one now which is a manual with circa 450HP cracks 100mph in 10s dead and its not slow for what is essentially a big heavy car. I've got my M3 for when I want to drive something light (1250kg) and handles like a proper sports/track car and feels raw/fast.
The rest of my focus will be styling, as its a shouty colour, I won't be adverse to putting big power bulge or vented hood on it to get rid of the soft European look, its going to get the same rear wing as my current one because it flows so well with the car the ducktail design. In short if possible like MY15 I shall probably just do a GT 350 conversion so looks wise, it looks very much a GT 350 as the balance of muscle, sports and elegance is spot on with the GT 350, Ford nailed it.
That is about it, also I shall probably create a new a thread for the MY18 soon as its a bit unfair to turn this thread into the Q&A on 2018 Mustang.
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he doesn't even own it yet - ban! (Should this level of detail not be in the Mustang thread??
)Is that a diesel or the Cupra? I keep looking at the Cupra versions of these can get a 10yr old one now easy for 6k and they all remap so well.
Got my stage 2 map done. Great service as always from the shark performance lads.
Have you had any faults with yours in general?
Hi it's a diesel fr version. They're quite problamatic with dpfs/injectors/boost leaks etc although once those issues are sorted out they're a good daily car with some fun elements after a remap. I've fixed a lot of the small issues I had myself so it's been an ok experience for me.
The cupra is good but not worth £6k depending on the year/mileage you get. Luckily the early Frs like mine had same set up as a mk5 gti so parts are easy to come by. The engine is just different to the one in the mk5 gti.
What are your 0-100 km/h times now?
Got my stage 2 map done. Great service as always from the shark performance lads.
Not a clue. Truth be told I've never timed 0-100kmh or 0-62 in any of the cars I've owned. I prefer in gear acceleration.
I'll know at the pod meet what the performance is like. My best time was 15.3 on the 1/4b with a trap of 94mph, that was with massive boost leaks and a crap map. Though on that run there was no mechanical sympathy.
The stage 2 compared to the stage 1 on the shark map is rather weird I found. I know for sure that the torque is limited in 1st and 2nd. In the stage 1 map it didn't seem limited in 2nd.
The torque also seems to be a tad higher up in the rev range in the stage 2 map compared to the stage 1. I do feel ill need to upgrade the clutch sometime when it starts slipping but so far it's been ok.
Oh and as for smoke higher up in the rev range, yes there is a lot of it. The stage 1 smoked but the stage 2 is something else.
The power is progressive it's not a one big thump of torque, it's smooth and you don't need to cain the car for it to move.
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Are you coming then?Stage 2... You cheat, you'll beat me at pod now. I'm out!
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Stage 2... You cheat, you'll beat me at pod now. I'm out!
Come to pod man. I don't care if I beat or lose anyone. Well, I tell a lie I want to beat the ctr boys or be as close to them lol. Bring your t-sport and we will have some fun.