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If you are driving it on the boil though (which 9 times out of 10 you would be if you wanted to "blast out of a corner") it'll never be more than a ratio or two out...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.
If you're coasting round a corner in 6th, how many times are you needing 2nd on the way out? The weight loading change would be awful! Some advanced driving lessons would be more useful than a manual box in those circumstances!
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.
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.
In auto mode it will block shift, it will only accelerate hard through all 10 if you go WOT from a stand still or low speed at which point ten ratios means faster acceleration. I can't see it being as good as PDK or M-DCT, but probably more along the lines of DSG style seamless shifting which is still a vast improvement over the old outgoing 6 speed auto and I want an auto. In the Camaro the same box is very sequential and aggressive, so my fingers are crossed for same in Mustang (same box / hardware) only difference being software.
Trust me I was tempted to order magnetic again because darker colours suite the MY18 design more I feel:
But I love the orange, you only live once and all that, plus I believe the colour will be a one year run, which if comes true helps immensely with re-sale value, current competition orange MY15's are fetching 4-5k more than other colours because Ford only ran the colour for one year. But its more just because I like the colour and I plan on fixing the down syndrome / soft european look of the front-end with a naughty hood with a proper bulge in it as the new MY18 has lost the power bulge which really defined the MY15 shape. Its a Mustang, the modding possibilities shall be endless.
Don't worry a hood with a nice bulge is planned.
no doubt you will get it looking great.
i still think this is the best looking mustang.
no doubt you will get it looking great.
i still think this is the best looking mustang.
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.
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.
In auto mode it will block shift, it will only accelerate hard through all 10 if you go WOT from a stand still or low speed at which point ten ratios means faster acceleration. I can't see it being as good as PDK or M-DCT, but probably more along the lines of DSG style seamless shifting which is still a vast improvement over the old outgoing 6 speed auto and I want an auto. In the Camaro the same box is very sequential and aggressive, so my fingers are crossed for same in Mustang (same box / hardware) only difference being software.
i didnt say is specifically go round corners in 6th, i was just trying to say that in a manual gearbox you wouldnt have to go through many gears, you just go straight to the one you want. like if you were cruzing along in 5th/6th then you come round at 1500rpm and see the popo like woe doge then you drop to 2nd and go like hell b4 they catch you.
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.
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.
