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

Silent_Scone said:
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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Your going to lose first gear. ;)
Second gear dry upto 650BHP should be fine.

Also its no longer an issue as Whipple as flight control software so you can limit torque/throttle in each gear, so effectively boost by gear so if your the kind of person who just mashes the pedal you can setup the supercharger kit to only deliver so much boost in each gear. So maybe 1st gear, 65%, 2nd gear 90% and 3rd gear up 100% etc.

So the Whipple kits are pretty damn impressive and is why people are managing such fast quarters, one guy is now low 10s at 140mph and just floors the car in 1st gear (AUTO) and it just explodes into acceleration with hardly any slip. :D


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This is what I am really loving about the new Mustang, its great value, its a nice place to be, it corners well all in all its pretty epic for the money.

Even more impressive the above video was the first guys pass and he did a 10.2@140mph seriously quick and its a car you can use every day and it drives just like the stock car drives, until of course your mash the loud pedal. ;)
Bear in mind he has done that on 20" wheels with road tyres, hence his 1.7 60ft time, smaller wheels with slicks you can get that down to 1.2s if you want to trailor it to the track or carry a set of wheels in the boot. I just love the idea you can have a Mustang, not impact its drive ability or reliability and drive to strip, do a sub 10s pass and drive home in comfort and be able to have fun on the twisty bits too. :)


Here is one going 0-162mph in 15s, again another daily running twin turbos with around 700BHP, but no intelligent boost by gear just driver:
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Silent_Scone said:
To be fair anything sub 11 is seriously quick lol.
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Yes, I've done a bit of tweaking on mine so I think its bang on 12s@115 or so area now and yes it feels damn quick, first 4 gears are over in a blink of an eye and it puts it all down in 1st gear quite easily surprisingly, the chassis has huge traction in the rear.

So 11s area mental quick, my last Mustang did a 12.4@126mph, yeah I know could not launch it haha but once moving it was insane. My new one is quicker of the line and does not feel vastly slower once moving, but the 5.0l engine develops a lot more torque in all the right places compared to the 4.6l :)
 
The Mad Rapper said:
OMG what a spotter! "Well if you look at my intake temps they are only two degrees above ambient because of the mods that I've done!" How excited you sound :)

It's a car not a computer Gibbo :p
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We was having a lot of fun and the guy was interested in what I'd done to it because of it feeling stronger.

Also you are aware the car is full of many computers and it is those computers and sensors which instruct how much power the car makes. Lower intake temps, higher octane results in the cars ECU advancing some spark.

I've done some datalogging past couple of days and my ECU is maxing out negative knock at -8.00 degrees which is the maximum set by Ford in the knock tables. Negative knock is good on this setup because when the ECU detects negative knock it advances the spark to make more power/torque if its within the ECU's parameters.

So yes it is a computer and if you give it what it wants it shall make more power (ensure your making claimed power). People are so focused on adding more power with modifications, instead on first ensuring their car is making the full power claimed by the manufacturer and as much of the time as possible. As owners of cars we can try to ensure this is happening by running correct oil, better fuel, reducing intake temperatures, forcing more colder air into the air box etc.

But forgetting the techno babble it was incredible fun and can't wait to get it around Donnington at some point. :)
 
The Mad Rapper said:
I'm jesting; it's really nice to see someone so passionate about their hobby. The car looks incredible.
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Just spent few days datalogging the cars factory map to fully understand what its doing and what it can adjust automatically etc. On my car it is always trying to further advance spark, which will be because I put good fuel in the car and because of lower intake temperatures.

Plus I wanted baseline info for a map I've tried on the car. :D
 
Silent_Scone said:
Not often you see night and day changes from bolt ons. He seems to think it's worlds better
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I''ve actually done very little that should effect power if at all, my bolt-ons are just to ensure the car makes the quoted figures as much as possible.

I don't believe in changing CAI on this car, the stock system is more than adequate and is a true sealed cold air intake. The big air open cones cause huge arguments in US as the maybe give 10BHP on a dyno but in the quarter mile they actually seem to make the car no quicker, sometimes even slow it due to the higher intake temperatures, causing ECU to not advance timing as much as it could do (upto 8 degrees).

My view is give the car good fuel, keep intake temps as low as possible and put a remap on the car and it will feel incredibly strong and cost very little to do so and I can tell you it feels superb. :)
 
If you're heading to Donington this year make sure you post about it an advance, I'll be there a few times myself so wouldn't mind seeing what it's like on track :)
 
tsinc80697 said:
If you're heading to Donington this year make sure you post about it an advance, I'll be there a few times myself so wouldn't mind seeing what it's like on track :)
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I hope to organise our own event and rent the track ourselves so it shall be mainly OcUK staffers, suppliers and maybe a couple of forum members. I will take both M3 and Mustang, as will compare them back to back. :)
 
Hi there


After fitting the sideskirts I loved the look and was happy with them at the front of the car as they ran up against the mudflaps so it all neatly blended into the body work as such and looked factory.

However at the rear I felt they seem to stick out a little too much, so I wanted to fit Roush winglets but in order to do so I'd have to hack and cut the new sideskirts and just fitting the winglets to the sideskirts would just look odd and actually stick out more.

So got a friend who works a lot with plastics to do some hacking with me, they have come out great, they still need tidying up a little with some tiger seal and precision use of a scalpel, I will then blow them over with some ABS black plastidip to make it all look like one true piece.


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But looks better and more finished/factory than before, once I've tidied them a little more and blown over with plastidip I will be happy with it, just for me they are not perfect yet upon very closeup inspection and although no one else will see it, I can and it will bug me so shall perfect them over coming days. :)
 
Couple of close ups of the drivers side which was the side we did first and hence am not 100% happy with it as passenger side is pretty spot on.

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It is the kind of thing I notice and it will bug me. :D

Am gonna fill the gaps with tiger seal and smooth if all of and then I am going to plastidip both sides which should give it the look of one piece factory item.

But love have they really finish the car off. :)
 
Havana_UK said:
That's at Silverstone where they do the Caterham drift challenge if I'm not mistaken, where you have the industrial park behind you.

Funny that the RS made more noise than the 'Stang (not as nice a noise mind you).
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It was from a week ago when I was at Silverstone with my car, should have used my car really then you'd be able to hear it. :D
 
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