NEARLY 2 YEARS WAITING: New Mustang GT PP is finally mine!

I got a red GT with comfort pack 3 weeks ago and love it. Love how it drives and love how it looks. Not too many about Northern Ireland yet so it's turning heads. Red isn't a "fail" imo but I guess colour is a personal thing.
 
GinG said:
I may have missed it but did you get to the bottom of the noise Gibbo?
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Nope, but it is looking like drive shaft slip yoke is potentially dry, gonna pack it with grease at weekend and see what happens.

Ford are fitting pretty crud 2-piece shafts to them, gonna inspect it and if its damaged will let warranty swap it, but I'd rather diagnose myself otherwise it would mean Ford potentially having the car for days/weeks and that is something I would be unhappy with.

Also US owners state the noise is pretty common and it does drive fine so I am not worried about it I am just very sensitive to odd sounds, to be honest in normal driving it rarely if ever does it, you gotta be loading it up pretty harsh to get it to the clunk/pop noise. Will also at weekend undo every bolt I worked on with car suspension loaded and then re-torque also just in case the track day caused something to move and its now binding. :)

But I am just enjoying the car, since it got warmer the Pzero's are working better and its so much fun to drive. :)
 
Kaiser699 said:
I got a red GT with comfort pack 3 weeks ago and love it. Love how it drives and love how it looks. Not too many about Northern Ireland yet so it's turning heads. Red isn't a "fail" imo but I guess colour is a personal thing.
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Lets see images please. :)

Got quite a few owners on this forum now. :)
 
I see that Chevrolet are bringing the Camaro in to the UK in limited numbers this year. Big fail though is that they are LHD. Idiots.
 
Rilot said:
I see that Chevrolet are bringing the Camaro in to the UK in limited numbers this year. Big fail though is that they are LHD. Idiots.
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They always do that though and end up selling like 2 cars per month. In Germany they are selling around 30 cars per month where LHD is fine, yet the Mustang is selling around 750 cars per month in Germany.

Ford have absolutely killed GM sales wise on this generation, in US Mustang is now pulling ahead so much it is outselling Camaro/Challenger combined.

Someone at Ford is very happy with themselves that is being so sucessful as a global product with Australia, Germany and UK sales way above forecast. :)
 
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Not my reg as DUI would be quite inappropriate
 
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Yes, smiling lots and loving it. Any excuse to get out for a drive and I'm away. I changed the clutch spring on day 3 and fitted a gt350 steering wheel yesterday. Got them both through Steeda UK. Easy mods and well worth doing.
I know the hood alignment is easy to sort but Ford fixed my hood alignment under warranty, just to let others know.

Front number plates... mmm... When I look at the sculpted lines and shape of this car, add to that the wonderful V8 soundtrack and joy to drive it, then I do not let a front number plate upset me. Folks will have their own views on it which is fine. I'm indifferent regarding my plate. It's a bit like dissing the car because the air freshener isn't the right colour:)
 
Kaiser699 said:
Yes, smiling lots and loving it. Any excuse to get out for a drive and I'm away. I changed the clutch spring on day 3 and fitted a gt350 steering wheel yesterday. Got them both through Steeda UK. Easy mods and well worth doing.
I know the hood alignment is easy to sort but Ford fixed my hood alignment under warranty, just to let others know.

Front number plates... mmm... When I look at the sculpted lines and shape of this car, add to that the wonderful V8 soundtrack and joy to drive it, then I do not let a front number plate upset me. Folks will have their own views on it which is fine. I'm indifferent regarding my plate. It's a bit like dissing the car because the air freshener isn't the right colour:)
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The plate is a minor thing and everybody likes different things, that is why we mod. I am personally driving mine with no front plate, police have not bothered with me in the slightest, sometimes if I am on dual carriage way I can see them looking and they slow, wait for me to pass to no doubt check a rear plate is affixed and then don't bother. :)

Steeda are putting more resources behind their UK operation now, some of the vendors are now realising the huge success that Mustang is in the UK and as such support for UK is growing. I still prefer buying directly from US though as it saves me so much money. CJPony and American Muscle are great and make shipping to UK easy and cheap, they also have discount codes for your basket worth around 5-10%.
 
Silent_Scone said:
I have a soft spot for these new ones. Seems like yours is now hero spec Gibbo
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Yeah I love it, handles lovely, still compliant and comfy, yes a bit more suspension noise in rear over harsher bumps due to solid inserts on subframe but I love driving it and now its warming up enjoying it even more.

The track day left me in shock in a good way, I never expected a close to 1700kg on a track to take it so easily and feel so agile, yeah the tighter corners it was no Boxster or 911 but really not a million miles away and on the faster stuff it just had way more grip then I ever remember the 911 having which is mind boggling as the 911 had semi-R's as does the M3, yet the Mustang just had insane grip. But the party piece was simply how forgiving the chassis was and how neutral it remained, really I expected it to be a bit boat like on track, but absolute opposite nothing but a joy to drive. I don't need speak of the engine as Coyote has a superb power band being 2000-6500rpm having great torque/power.

Yep love it, just keen for my wheels and spoiler now, but I have no other changes planned accept for more power next year. :)
 
Silent_Scone said:
Christ is that how much they weigh lol. I think they've just hit every right note for me on a personal level short of driving one. It's a hell of a lot of car for 35k.
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I'd need to weigh it to be sure, some people quote 1600kg, some 1700kg, no one seems to know exactly, performance wise it feels more like a 1500kg car due to the torque no doubt. :)

I would suspect mine once the wheels are on will be 1575-1625kg region. :)


They will do the quarter mile in around 12.5s @ 109mph stock, so they shift pretty well. A simple remap transforms them though, not because of the power increases but because remap dial back the clutch torque limiting protection systems. This is why cars just with tune files and nothing else have gone as quick as 11.5s @ 116mph which is very impressive.

There are some guys going sub 11s @ 120mph+ with just NA bolt on's such as panel filter, intake manifold, exhaust manifolds. Guys running the Roush/Whipple supercharger setups in the 700-800BHP region, again seems safe as house on the S550 Coyote especially if you upgrade the OPG's are doing 9-10s quarters at 140+ terminals, of course supercharger kits cost more, if you go all out talking £7500 area. There are a few guys now in the US running close to 1000BHP on completely bone stock motor and transmission, not even upgraded the OPG's and still its in one piece. Not saying this is safe by any means I believe at 900-1000BHP they are on borrowed time especially with no OPG upgrades. But 650-750BHP all day long even Ford, Roush, Shelby, Steeda sell them from the factory with upto 777BHP with a warranty. Also a car that can do 10s quarters is absolutely bonkers fast on the road, so there really is not much need to go beyond 700BHP.

It is this that really makes the great value aspect of things change because for less than 40k you can buy the car, mod/tune it and go 11s area in quarter mile on stock tyres/wheels, suspension etc with just a simple remap.

The remap really wakes the car up and it cost like £250-£350! :)
 
700BHP would be fairly mental. Wonder if it would ruin the drivability though. I noticed you were on MLR for a time. I bought my first Evo last month, bog standard 8 MR 340. Loving it!
 
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