My LT1 vs. a 5.0 Fox body
08-24-2013, 08:11 PM
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I'm not a troll.
08-24-2013, 09:04 PM
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It is… But the simple fact is, just about any motor can produce good power, the LT platform is just set up to do that right out of the box…. You're entitled to disagree and you certainly exercise the prerogative chronically. But the LT is cheap to mod and easy to build… and it has been breaking Mustang owner hearts for a full generation.
08-31-2013, 05:58 PM
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It is… But the simple fact is, just about any motor can produce good power, the LT platform is just set up to do that right out of the box…. You're entitled to disagree and you certainly exercise the prerogative chronically. But the LT is cheap to mod and easy to build… and it has been breaking Mustang owner hearts for a full generation.
I bet if we were still in 96, everyone would worshiping the LT motors. Just take the Opti out and you have a good ol Small Block to work with. 
08-31-2013, 06:36 PM
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(NOTE: I generally only troll this forum, given the volatile nature of teen-agers, testosterone, and gasoline, but this was too much fun.)
Last week, I had just installed my seventh Opti-spark, so I was out on a little test run, when a maroon (did they come in any other colour?) 5.0 Fox body Mustang with bright blue HIDs comes charging up thru traffic to reach my vehicle.
This guy’s car is extra loud, gutted (with a cage), it has a flat black 4 inch cowl-induction hood, and three gauges on his A-pillar. He stops by my side, lurches forward and then pulls back twice (!) and yells at me: “Come on!”
I laugh and shout: “We’re in a 35 (mph) zone! A 35 zone Dude!”
He’s still in full race-mode; so he shouts again (with extra intensity this time): “Come on!!!”
With that, he takes off, and so do I.
I’m in second, so the turbo spools quickly, and I immediately get ahead of him to the degree that he can see my taillights, after that, the “race” between his “race car” and my stock-appearing vehicle is over, so I shut it down.
He pulls up next to me (in the left turn lane) at the next red light, and I ask him: “What’s in your Mustang?”
He ignores the question and says: “I gotta’ get to work Dude.”
The turn lane’s light turns green, and off he goes.
(Let the claims of BS, and people telling me how much my car sucks begin!)
Last week, I had just installed my seventh Opti-spark, so I was out on a little test run, when a maroon (did they come in any other colour?) 5.0 Fox body Mustang with bright blue HIDs comes charging up thru traffic to reach my vehicle.
This guy’s car is extra loud, gutted (with a cage), it has a flat black 4 inch cowl-induction hood, and three gauges on his A-pillar. He stops by my side, lurches forward and then pulls back twice (!) and yells at me: “Come on!”
I laugh and shout: “We’re in a 35 (mph) zone! A 35 zone Dude!”
He’s still in full race-mode; so he shouts again (with extra intensity this time): “Come on!!!”
With that, he takes off, and so do I.
I’m in second, so the turbo spools quickly, and I immediately get ahead of him to the degree that he can see my taillights, after that, the “race” between his “race car” and my stock-appearing vehicle is over, so I shut it down.
He pulls up next to me (in the left turn lane) at the next red light, and I ask him: “What’s in your Mustang?”
He ignores the question and says: “I gotta’ get to work Dude.”
The turn lane’s light turns green, and off he goes.
(Let the claims of BS, and people telling me how much my car sucks begin!)
08-31-2013, 08:52 PM
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Holy thread resurrection Batman!
This 'race' happened to me three years ago.
Yes, some fox bodies are indeed slow (Turbo LT1 > cammed / gutted 5.0) - but the one I've seen linked to on this forum that spots a GT-R a couple car lengths and still smokes him by the 60 foot mark is scary-fast.
I would not mess with THAT fox body.
This 'race' happened to me three years ago.
Yes, some fox bodies are indeed slow (Turbo LT1 > cammed / gutted 5.0) - but the one I've seen linked to on this forum that spots a GT-R a couple car lengths and still smokes him by the 60 foot mark is scary-fast.
I would not mess with THAT fox body.
08-31-2013, 11:17 PM
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