[QUOTE=horatio102] The tranny is the weak link (coming from subaru it shouldn't surprise you). They say it's only good for 300-350hp or so. I haven't mangled mine yet, but I'm just waiting. [/QUOTE]
That seems to be about the going limits for stock trannys on most cars these days specially if your launching on a regular basis.
STi's, Cobras and ZO6 vettes and any other special edition models excluded of course.
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[QUOTE=horatio102]Ford puts really tall gears in these things for fuel economy on the freeway, so swapping the 2.73 or 3.08 or whatever comes stock out for some 3.55 or shorter really helps accelleration. Kills top speed, but who needs that anyway. The rear axle is fine for what more people throw at it, but if you're looking to break into really low 1/4 times you might snap it. The tranny is the weak link (coming from subaru it shouldn't surprise you). They say it's only good for 300-350hp or so. I haven't mangled mine yet, but I'm just waiting. [/QUOTE]
Horatio....what year and color is your car? I travel through bellingham every single day...What mods have you done? Do you race it? Just curious....I haven't seen too many GT's up that way that are done up....If you ever see a blue 2000 GT convertible with tinted window and 24 Karat gold daytons on it...Stop me and say hello or something...that's me....and my GT/Cobra conversion..
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Whats up with all the hate? What the hell is the matter with you people? [/QUOTE]
Look guy...no offense, but if you go into a mustang site and post something called "ANOTHER GT BITES THE DUST" and then talk about how you beat the "stupid people in the GT", you shouldn't be surprised if people get pissed off...
That's like the equivalent of walking into the million man march on martin luther kings day and shouting "I HATE N*****S"...get my drift?
Whats up with all the hate? What the hell is the matter with you people? [/QUOTE]
Look guy...no offense, but if you go into a mustang site and post something called "ANOTHER GT BITES THE DUST" and then talk about how you beat the "stupid people in the GT", you shouldn't be surprised if people get pissed off...
That's like the equivalent of walking into the million man march on martin luther kings day and shouting "I HATE N*****S"...get my drift?
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HAHAH nice pairable.
I was just trying to point out how much of an asshole that guy was and how good it felt to show him up. Im sure you have been in similar situations with ricers and other muscleheads. I should have titled it another A$$hole bites the dust that happened to be driving a GT. But I dont recall ever writing somthing like "stupid people in a GT". I like Fords and appreciate them as an "American Icon".
What I really thought was people would like how I killed someone that was making Stang drivers look bad.
Horatio....what year and color is your car? I travel through bellingham every single day...What mods have you done? Do you race it? Just curious....I haven't seen too many GT's up that way that are done up....If you ever see a blue 2000 GT convertible with tinted window and 24 Karat gold daytons on it...Stop me and say hello or something...that's me....and my GT/Cobra conversion..
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Daytons! Are you serious? Thats some serious bling you got there. What size are they?
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It's all good...
If I'm at a stoplight and people want to race, it depends. If they're cool about it, I'll race em and have a good time. But if they're being a d**k about it and shouting "you suck, m'derp...", then I'll gun the engine to hell...then let them fly away on the green light and watch them race air. It's pretty fun to makem look stupid. But you are right, about half of these kids out there have no respect...
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this is really funny....
I mean give the guy a break,he comes to the forum to read about mustangs,that means there is interest there from his side,he likes the mustangs,don't matter what he drives.
And let's face it there are faster cars than mustangs out there.He's a car enthusiast not necesseraly a mustang or subaru enthusiast and he came accross a guy in a mustang who was willing to racr underestimated the WRX and lost,and unsted of taking it like a man and saying nice race,i lost F*** it,i can't win all the time,the guy starts talking S*** to him and starts getting all personal,i would get upset too.....at no point he said that mustangs suck or that they are pieces of s*** ,so why the all the hate.
Me personally i had japanese cars,european cars,now i own an american car and i'm just a dumb foreigner from Yugoslavia,but i love cars.
And i don't care if i drive a subaru or a mustang as long as i like the car,i do not care who makes it,you think the american industry is thankfull to you for bying a american car unsted of a japenese one?C'mon wake up they don't care they just want your money nothing else,it's all about money.
Let me see someone from detroit send me a freakin thank you card for buying an american car.
Do you really care?
Most of us here bought our cars used anyhow,so how are we exactly helping the american industry??
I love cars,i don't care where they come from,if god forbid i lose my job is the american car industry gonna help me pay my bills? i don't think so!so i say S*** them all drive your car enjoy it and don't worry who made it,if you are a car enthusiast then it should not make a difference who made it!
Belive me tomorrow you might see this nice Skyline GTR come to the Nissan delaerships selling for the same price as a supercharged cobra and i wonder which way you would go.....
But for now i'm driving an American car so this goes to the american car industry!!I hope you are thankfull for me buying a Mustang and not a WRX??!!!
Anyhow my Saleen rules ....at least for now.....(btw it is for sale )
Sorry about my english 1 0 1 foreigners what can i say!
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my god. he just posted about how some stang owner was acting arrogant and some (not all) people jumped down his throat. being a wrx owner i cant understand why people get so mad when a car similar to theirs loses a race. i have posted mustang kills and mustang loses. dont be so critical of people.
and to silver 02, i have a silver 03. you can get that down to 12.8 or 12.9 if you strip the interior and run a little 110 octane in there. also think about slightly lower profile tires if you are on stocks. also the wastegate mod should help out a little. 12's are possible on the stock turbo. but anyway. mustang owners, calm down. it's just friendly car talk. and lightly modded gt's arent that fast any ways.
you guys with modded gt's just disregard. thats all. be easy.
hey silver where/when did you serve? eventhough i was army i had alot of marine freinds. i served for six years. deisel mechanic. you came off cocky thats why i blasted back.i'm bull headed so take what i said lightly. now i make toyota/honda parts,and ofcourse drive a ford,and an olds.yeah if someone hitted on my wife i would be pretty hot too. so welcome to the forum whatever you drive,just buy another car.....mustang hopefully.oh yeah i served our beloved country from 92-98.
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my god. he just posted about how some stang owner was acting arrogant and some (not all) people jumped down his throat. being a wrx owner i cant understand why people get so mad when a car similar to theirs loses a race. i have posted mustang kills and mustang loses. dont be so critical of people.
and to silver 02, i have a silver 03. you can get that down to 12.8 or 12.9 if you strip the interior and run a little 110 octane in there. also think about slightly lower profile tires if you are on stocks. also the wastegate mod should help out a little. 12's are possible on the stock turbo. but anyway. mustang owners, calm down. it's just friendly car talk. and lightly modded gt's arent that fast any ways.
you guys with modded gt's just disregard. thats all. be easy.
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[/QUOTE] Who says GT's or lightly modded GT's aren't fast...Last time i checked some of them where running 13.7's stock and i posted the link once on here. It all depends on the GT you run into. Same goes with the WRX's it all depends on which one you meet....
I've never seen in any magazine where a WRX has posted anything close to that time. The best ive seen is 14.5 in the magazines and high 14's to low 15's on the strip. Motor Trend did a test with the Neon vs WRX.. and the neon ran a 13.9 to the WRX's 14.5.. and it was a full second faster to 120... and the mustang on average is much faster than the SRT-4, it gets to 120 a half second faster than the SRT-4. So what am i saying....Since the mustangs aren't fast then what do you call the WRX...Mustangs are nearly 2 seconds faster to 120 then the UNBEATABLE WRX. I know most of you wouldn't take your car up to those speeds...I just wanted to make my point to RX kid. Since alot of us own Slow stangs.
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[QUOTE=silver02WRX][QUOTE=00banditv8]
Horatio....what year and color is your car? I travel through bellingham every single day...What mods have you done? Do you race it? Just curious....I haven't seen too many GT's up that way that are done up....If you ever see a blue 2000 GT convertible with tinted window and 24 Karat gold daytons on it...Stop me and say hello or something...that's me....and my GT/Cobra conversion..
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Daytons! Are you serious? Thats some serious bling you got there. What size are they?
[/QUOTE] LOL....there small 14's They look great on the stang...It's a show car that's definetly not all show....I've put a ton of money in this ride...most of it's under the hood.
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<P>Horatio....what year and color is your car? I travel through bellingham every single day...What mods have you done? Do you race it? Just curious....I haven't seen too many GT's up that way that are done up....If you ever see a blue 2000 GT convertible with tinted window and 24 Karat gold daytons on it...Stop me and say hello or something...that's me....and my GT/Cobra conversion..</P><edited><editID>00banditv8</editID><editDate>38030.5553240741</editDate></edited>
Can't say that I've seen your car around. There's a brown Astro with white leather interior rolling on gold wires though.
My 5.0 is a 91 black vert that doesn't have a roof anymore. It's got some fiberglass hood w/pins, big park bench of a rear wing (saleen style?), and a black/grey sparco torino driver's seat, on 17" cobra r replicas. But I don't drive it all that often (no roof). When I take it out I've been known to flog it though. I haven't hit the track yet, but it's something I want to do when I get it tuned right.
My daily driver is a silver 02 Jetta now, 1.8t with an APR ecu remap. Quite fun now, and still gets 30+mpg on the freeway.
If you see a black 'vert with no roof and license 'RVO VOM' that's me.
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bandit...you know i meant in the real world. how often do you go to the strip? you live in WA. just like me. who can resist a few stop light battles? no way a stock or lightly modded gt stays w/ a wrx from a light. with equal drivers and equal mods wrx owns. i dont want to argue about it. i ran 13.2 w/ just exhaust and boost controller. not fast but not slow. plenty to take out a gt though. everyone knows that more cylinders equals more potential so lets not get crazy. traction is the key. and i dont know anyone w/ 300+ on tap that can launch at 5k w/ no slip like i can. but i cant fock w/ stangs on the top end.
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<P>Ok, so Im at this red ligh and this 02 (i think) GT(for sure) pulls up (looked slightly modded). Knowing that its a relitivly easy kill I just look over withouth revving and give him the "whats up, nice car nod". I get nothing but some hard stare from him and his buddie, some revvs and him trying to smile at my extremly cute girlfriend. She laughs, I laugh and I revv, he begins to smoke his tires. Light turns green and I launch on him pulling an easy 2 cars lengths in first gear, second gear going on three car lenghts, third gear I hold him of barely but he slowly begins to pull. 4 gear I cut at about 100 ahead by 2 car lengths. </P> <P>Now I have respect for any car enthusiast who respects me. But as soon as we get the next red he rolls down his window and starts talking all kinds of shiit. "Ricer this (my car is definatly not riced out) your bitch that".Being that I am a Marine (infantry served 6 years been out 2 years but once a marine always a marine) I knew I could have (and probably should have) easily whooped him and his boys ass, but being that I am a civilized adult I just left with another GT kill, went home, smoked a fatty with my girl and called it a night. . </P><edited><editID>silver02WRX</editID><editDate>38029.811400463</editDate></edited>
Yet another fantasy by a jealous 12 year old that watches waaaaaay to much F&F that ain't got pubes yet....
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