What are your thoughts on the Mustang after owning it for a while? Any issues? Regrets? How's the auto trans?
What work have you put into it so far and where are you at with 1/4 mile times?
It's been a year and half and it has only 4k miles on it so far. Miles will be kept low since I work from home all the time now.
I've had zero issues with it despite all the mods I did to it. I only needed to take it in for an oil change once, that's about it for maintenance.
I actually love this car all motor. It's faster than my Hellcat was stock. I surprise alot of cars that want to give me a run on the highway (though to be clear, I don't go to street racing events anymore. I just drive and whoever wants to randomly egg me for a race, cuz Mustangs are targets you know, I oblige
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I posted my dyno previously but it made 502whp with headers, intake, cobra jet manifold, and E85.
I did take it to the track but the time wasn't good. Only got one run in because it was crowded, and I messed it up. It ran 11.2 @ 124. However, that was with some real bad wheel hop and the ABS momentarily closed the throttle body mid run in 3rd gear. Without the throttle body closing I would have easily hit 10's at 127-129. I was supposed to have disconnected the ABS sensor before running so this wouldn't happen but I forgot, and never had a chance to do another run. I won't go back however until I put on stronger axles and some kind of wheel hop kit first, that wheel hop off the line was terrible.
The 10 speed auto transmission is holding up great. The CJ manifold allows it shift at 8k rpms, and the car really comes alive at the 4k mark, pulls so hard it's hard to believe this is an all motor car and not turbo/supercharged. There's quite a few 10 speed cobra jet manifold cars nipping on 9's at 135+ with some minor weight reduction and suspension work, but I like the car as it is (back seat and all).
Shifting is very harsh when WOT but that is the nature of the tune. The car will chip the tires from a 2-3 shift and 3-4 shift (hence why traction control wants to close the throttle body and needs to be turned off).
There's nothing else I plan on doing at this point other than axles, which I won't do until I know for sure I'll be returning to the track. I don't have any issues with wheel hop on the street, even with the NT05Rs I have on there.