HP for a 2000 gt

Best way... decide what you want with your car.. what you want it to be able to do. Is it a street/strip car? Strip only car? If street, mostly highway or mostly city driving? Wanting it to run the fastest 1/8 mile? 1/4 mile?

-Mike

Mike, you bring tears to my eyes. ;-)

Kelly.....

Many people come here looking for the best and easiest way to get more horsepower out of their cars. There is more to life than just the dyno sheet though.

Mike's leading you on the right track (seems we've taught him well). Figure out what you want the car to do and be. I'd bet it's not a dedicated strip machine... and I'd bet that it'll see much more highway time than strip time. If you're like the average Mustang GT owner (not saying most in here are average), you'll drive your car on the street 99% of the time, and push the car often enough to want more performance out of it. Here are a few things to think about though.

A new shifter will protect your weak T-45 if you have a manual transmission and make it easier to hit the gears harder.

Subframe connectors will tie the front and back half of the car together and make it feel more solid, as well as make it more predictable in the twisties or on a hard launch.

Rear end gears, while not increasing horsepower, are one of the easiest ways of increasing acceleration. You'll lose a little bit of gas mileage and top-end, but how often do you reach the top speed of your GT?

If you do decide to go for exhaust, go for the whole thing - headers back. It's really the only way to gain much. Swapping out the H-pipe for something a little more open (hi-performance cats cost a bit more but help keep smog down and barely restrict your exhaust)

Chips and such are a great idea on a car with a blower, nitrous, turbo, or extensive engine work, but for a relatively stock car, they're not worth much.

A blower on a newer GT makes for a pretty mean combination, but it costs long green to do it. If you do it, get it dyno-tuned before you go hot-rodding or you'll end up with a much costlier consideration - rebuilding the entire engine after detonation takes out the bottom end.

Many in here will recommend shifter-subframes-gears in that order to get more out of your car. Those are the gifts that keep on giving though, and will support you no matter what other mod you do.

Mike mentioned my "get comfortable with your car" comment, that was directed more at the drag race crowd, but can apply to the street though. Learning how to fully handle your car's potential with the horsepower it has there takes a while. My favorite example is Buzz Haze here in this group. He's taken a stock-engined 5.0 with 215hp (1987 coupe) and ran it into the

Having said that, determine what you want to do with the car first before spending money, or you'll just end up going in circles and the only weight reduction you'll feel is in your wallet.

JS

JS

LOL I like that... the only weight reduction you'll feel is in your wallet. ;D too funny.. and unfortunately true.

-Mike