Sold the Porsche, bought a Ford....

300bhp isn't horrific (the 4.0l V6 is 210bhp!) but it's not brilliant either. It's going shed loads of torque and the fact that a few hundred quid will get you close to 350bhp shows the engine has plenty to give.

It's a completely different type of engine to others which have smaller displacement but the same level of bhp output. I know Honda got 240bhp ish out of the 2.0l S2000 but the Mustang has so much grunt available from literally 1k rpm.

A CAI and tune will take me to around 330bhp and that's gonna end up costing around £300 I think.

Handling seems fine, not brilliant but now awful. It's obviously much bigger than the Porsche (and thus feels heavier, even if it isn't a great deal) and being LHD I've not tended to push myself in it yet. I'm sure on a race track I'd notice a massive difference but doing my day to day driving it feels more than fine. The Porsche was out of this world for handling and driving feel so I always knew it was never going to be as good.


The wheels did spin on the video when I changed into 2nd at about 25mph (which I did not expect at all), I wasn't redlining it nor did I completely drop the clutch so I was surprised but I guess that's just the torque kicking in.

Glad the alloys are a decent brand, still undecided on them. I've just never been a fan of black on black. In terms of living with a LHD car as a daily - no issues so far and it's starting to feel quite natural.
 
Peerzy said:
300bhp isn't horrific (the 4.0l V6 is 210bhp!) but it's not brilliant either. It's going shed loads of torque and the fact that a few hundred quid will get you close to 350bhp shows the engine has plenty to give.

It's a completely different type of engine to others which have smaller displacement but the same level of bhp output. I know Honda got 240bhp ish out of the 2.0l S2000 but the Mustang has so much grunt available from literally 1k rpm.

A CAI and tune will take me to around 330bhp and that's gonna end up costing around £300 I think.

Handling seems fine, not brilliant but now awful. It's obviously much bigger than the Porsche (and thus feels heavier, even if it isn't a great deal) and being LHD I've not tended to push myself in it yet. I'm sure on a race track I'd notice a massive difference but doing my day to day driving it feels more than fine. The Porsche was out of this world for handling and driving feel so I always knew it was never going to be as good.


The wheels did spin on the video when I changed into 2nd at about 25mph (which I did not expect at all), I wasn't redlining it nor did I completely drop the clutch so I was surprised but I guess that's just the torque kicking in.

Glad the alloys are a decent brand, still undecided on them. I've just never been a fan of black on black. In terms of living with a LHD car as a daily - no issues so far and it's starting to feel quite natural.
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The Americans leave a lot on the table engine tuning wise for the customer to get.

I did CAI, Headers, exhaust, deleted pre-cat in the intake and a tune for UK fuel netted me 388BHP. :)
Not many NA cars that can get your nearly 100BHP from just bolt-ons for less than a couple of grand. :D

If you want big power, supercharger, 500-600BHP on stock internals then and for under 4k.
 
Gibbo said:
The Americans leave a lot on the table engine tuning wise for the customer to get.

I did CAI, Headers, exhaust, deleted pre-cat in the intake and a tune for UK fuel netted me 388BHP. :)
Not many NA cars that can get your nearly 100BHP from just bolt-ons for less than a couple of grand. :D

If you want big power, supercharger, 500-600BHP on stock internals then and for under 4k.
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I've seen supercharger kits but they looked to be a lot more than £4k. I guess you fitted yours so probably saved a bit doing that, the stuff I've seen is £5k-£6k.

I'll be happy with the CAI and tune for now, which should take me to roughly 330bhp.
 
Peerzy said:
I've seen supercharger kits but they looked to be a lot more than £4k. I guess you fitted yours so probably saved a bit doing that, the stuff I've seen is £5k-£6k.

I'll be happy with the CAI and tune for now, which should take me to roughly 330bhp.
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Mine cost me £2800, fitted myself. :)

Kit was something like $6000 new shipped for Saleen 2.3l supercharger, plugs, fuel pump, radiators, intake the whole lot. At time exchange rates were stunning in our favour, so a 6k kit cost me less than 3k landed in the UK. :)

Fit it yourself, its just like fitting an intake manifold, doing a plug change, it is easy and these cars have so much room to work on them.

Don't get too tempted:-
http://www.teamjdm.com/
 
Gibbo said:
Mine cost me £2800, fitted myself. :)

Kit was something like $6000 new shipped for Saleen 2.3l supercharger, plugs, fuel pump, radiators, intake the whole lot. At time exchange rates were stunning in our favour, so a 6k kit cost me less than 3k landed in the UK. :)

Fit it yourself, its just like fitting an intake manifold, doing a plug change, it is easy and these cars have so much room to work on them.

Don't get too tempted:-
http://www.teamjdm.com/
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Roush 550bhp kit comes to £4k, but then I'm guessing VAT, shipping and fitting (no way I could do an oil change, let alone fit a supercharger!) would probably add another couple of grand in total.

The tunes on that website are expensive, $285! Other websites that I've been recommended by owners are $99 a tune!
 
Peerzy said:
Roush 550bhp kit comes to £4k, but then I'm guessing VAT, shipping and fitting (no way I could do an oil change, let alone fit a supercharger!) would probably add another couple of grand in total.

The tunes on that website are expensive, $285! Other websites that I've been recommended by owners are $99 a tune!
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The other website is?

The tune is the most important part, get that wrong and engine is kabooom.

JDM are amongst the best if not the best tuner in the states. My car went straight to 510BHP, Andy checked it on the dyno, fuelling, det, etc. and the tune was absolute spot on!

When I went to smaller pulley, we had some fuelling/det issues, a few emails to JDM and all was sorted for no extra charge. Sometimes you pay extra to get damn good service.
 
Peerzy said:
Roush 550bhp kit comes to £4k, but then I'm guessing VAT, shipping and fitting (no way I could do an oil change, let alone fit a supercharger!) would probably add another couple of grand in total.

The tunes on that website are expensive, $285! Other websites that I've been recommended by owners are $99 a tune!
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I'd seriously be temped to have a try at this myself.

These american muscle cars are deliberately easy to work on, as the modding scene for them in america is huge. They have to be home mechanic friendly or they simply won't sell.

If you've ever built a computer it won't be much different. Its just removing and refitting parts.
 
Gibbo said:
The other website is?

The tune is the most important part, get that wrong and engine is kabooom.

JDM are amongst the best if not the best tuner in the states. My car went straight to 510BHP, Andy checked it on the dyno, fuelling, det, etc. and the tune was absolute spot on!

When I went to smaller pulley, we had some fuelling/det issues, a few emails to JDM and all was sorted for no extra charge. Sometimes you pay extra to get damn good service.
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Brenspeed and VMPTuning are the two companies that people on MOCGB seem to use, $99 email tunes and very happy with them. I can see the use in spending $300 on a tune with a supercharger but just a standard CAI then a $99 tune should be fine.

Fr0dders said:
I'd seriously be temped to have a try at this myself.

These american muscle cars are deliberately easy to work on, as the modding scene for them in america is huge. They have to be home mechanic friendly or they simply won't sell.

If you've ever built a computer it won't be much different. Its just removing and refitting parts.
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I've got a mechanic who would do the work very cheap, it's still going to cost the best part of £6k which is 50% of the cars value!
 
Yeah, to be honest a supercharge is massively overkill. I found the current power of the car perfectly adequate. For a few hundred pounds it makes sense to get the CAI and tune to remove the throttle lag and make the bhp / tonne similar to my Boxster. Anything over and above that will be years down the line, but it's great knowing there is such a big modding scene.
 
SDK^ said:
BMW didn't get much more out of a 4.4 V8 in a 2005 6 Series. Even a 2009 4.8 650i only had 360bhp.
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The new (2011 onwards I think) engines are suppose to be really great, the 3.7l V6 puts out 305bhp (so more than my 'old' 4.6l V8) and the 5.0l V8 puts out about 410bhp.

Gibbo said:
Go with Brenspeed tune, being around since I had mine. :)
Really £70 for 30-40BHP is superb value.
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It's a bit more than that, I've managed to get a CAI for £155, the tuner was £120 and then it'll be £70 for the tune - but I agree it's peanuts for the difference it's going to make with throttle response and the extra power int he mid range.

Brenspeed came very highly recommended from a few members.
 
Peerzy said:
The new (2011 onwards I think) engines are suppose to be really great, the 3.7l V6 puts out 305bhp (so more than my 'old' 4.6l V8) and the 5.0l V8 puts out about 410bhp.



It's a bit more than that, I've managed to get a CAI for £155, the tuner was £120 and then it'll be £70 for the tune - but I agree it's peanuts for the difference it's going to make with throttle response and the extra power int he mid range.

Brenspeed came very highly recommended from a few members.
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If you want way more mid range and torque, then get some long tube headers, makes a vast difference. ;)
 
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