New/2011 5.0 Mustang Details

Here's a more relevant question. Did your '93 run 12s @ anywhere near

110 mph when it rolled off the showroom floor? Because that the sort of numbers the new GT will be putting up.

Patrick

Not when it was stock it didn't. I ordered my '87 stripped and it weighed just under 3,000.

Note: I was talking old 5.0 engine weight to new 5.0 engine weight.

If the new GT boogies to a 12 second time slip, I won't be complaining.

I see a new GT in my future.

It's fun to tinker, but when the new stuff performs so damn good you have to say at some point screw this and go visit your local [Ford] dealer.

Patrick

That's some crazy shit!

Patrick

Can you imagine that pulling up beside you at a light and looking around trying to figure out where the big block is....

Fly by wire does have some delay, which I don't like. The cure isn't worth the money IMO. Better than turbo lag though. Motor doesn't wake up until it's over 4k, it's only a little 4.6 . Push the TCS button to off my '07 will bang the limiter spinning the tires in 1st, 2nd no problem. With the TCS on I'll hole shot that '93 anyday, all day. Stomping on kids with the "magic" 5.0 is great entertainment for us old guys who trained on

4-5 hundred ft. lb. torque cars back in the day. Wish we had traction control on the street back then.

Kids.........

"Northeast" takes in a wealth of options. Personally, I wouldn't live within

50 miles of New York City proper, but the rest of the Northeast runs the gamut from big hills (we call them "mountains") to sprawling farm country to a million little towns and villages to endless malls to cultivated suburbs. With its four definite seasons, I think this area is one of the best in the country to live in. I love the Philadelphia tristate region, as it has a slower pace than New York, is not overwhelming and stress-filled, and (because it's smack-dab between NY and Washington) often is ignored. But Arkansas is only about an hour's drive away, once you head west from the I-95 corridor, the New Jersey beaches are 90 minutes to the east, and the playground of the Poconos is 90 minutes to the north. And, if you're so inclined, either NY or Washington is a day trip away.

Now, New England... that's a different story altogether.

dwight

I was looking at the Morris Minors, seem cool with the mods

it is an LX old cop car w interceptor package. You are stuck on GT weight.

Not when it was stock it didn't. I ordered my '87 stripped and it weighed just under 3,000.

Note: I was talking old 5.0 engine weight to new 5.0 engine weight.

If the new GT boogies to a 12 second time slip, I won't be complaining.

I see a new GT in my future.

It's fun to tinker, but when the new stuff performs so damn good you have to say at some point screw this and go visit your local [Ford] dealer.

Patrick

agreed

Had the supercharger overhauled, reinstalled it. and for the next month there where some bad sounds from the engine, the smog pump was going out.

Don't know if it would be ford, unless it has the instant acceleration at start, (no BOG).

Jay Leno had a gremlin at one time, huge engine in it

Utube again; funny

Here's a more relevant question. Did your '93 run 12s @ anywhere near

110 mph when it rolled off the showroom floor? Because that the sort of numbers the new GT will be putting up.

Patrick

nope, if the 2010 drove great, (need to test drive it) I would probably get one, if I had the change. But I hate to see them add so much weight on.

I'd like the corvette, a big engine with lots of volume, but hate the shrink wrap fit of the passengers. I like the 4 seaters.

I had a 89 ex cop car that was tuned by the copshop, it could do 130 (nothing around here to drive on faster than that) But the compression check showed two cylinders with high compression (carbon) so I sold that bought the 93 at another auction and added the Keene bell on (it was second hand, bought it via Autotrader, came off a race car near houston)

but the 93 is here, now, cheap, and very fast, and I do get tired of tinkering with it, but all the common stuff that fails has been replaced, so it is young at heart. Manual Transmission is original, and Gears.

good writeup in WSJ today on the mustang 2010, must be good.

No, I'm not. GTs generally weighed about 3,200-3,300. V8 LXs about

3,100. Stripped V8 LXs, like the one I special ordered from the factory back in '87, was a little under 3,000. The Police package didn't offer any weight reduction.

Patrick

Yep, mines an LX hatch, but it was a dealer's "25 years" for 89 and it was loaded with all the extras that the GTs had except for the ground effects package. It was 3327 when I weighed it with out me but with a full fuel tank assorted daily crap inside.