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Old Sep 19, 2012 | 07:46 PM
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Bolt on performance

What's the best stuff to do to the sn95 5.0 performance wise to get a little more power?

Right now I have cold air intake, fox body race intake, 75mm tb, 24lb injectors, matching mass air meter for 24lb injectors, a/c and air pump bypass, shorties off road h pipe magnaflow straight through race mufflers, 3.73 gears
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Old Sep 19, 2012 | 08:43 PM
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Heads/cam/intake.

Trickflow has a lot of good stuff to look at. AFR heads are pretty awesome as well.
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Old Sep 20, 2012 | 04:37 AM
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Ok ya If I decide to keep it I found the valve train and cam that I want it's .520 lift .280 duration and a buddy has a brand new set of aluminum race heads he will sell me for 1500
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Old Sep 20, 2012 | 05:21 AM
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Kept to basics, the industry recommendations for a first set of bolt-ons are as follows:
5.0
o Rear axle gears
o Pulleys
o Headers
o High-flow H-pipe
o Cold-air intake
o Mass air meter
o Throttle body

4.6
o Rear axle gears
o Pulleys
o Cold-air intake
o Mass air meter
o Throttle body
o Intake manifold and cylinder head

http://www.mustang50magazine.com/tec...g/viewall.html

It's a pretty good read.
Hope this helps a little.
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Old Sep 20, 2012 | 06:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Dbranham
Kept to basics, the industry recommendations for a first set of bolt-ons are as follows:
5.0
o Rear axle gears
o Pulleys
o Headers
o High-flow H-pipe
o Cold-air intake
o Mass air meter
o Throttle body

4.6
o Rear axle gears
o Pulleys
o Cold-air intake
o Mass air meter
o Throttle body
o Intake manifold and cylinder head

http://www.mustang50magazine.com/tec...g/viewall.html

It's a pretty good read.
Hope this helps a little.
He pretty much has all that. That's why I said h/c/I would probably be next.
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Old Sep 20, 2012 | 07:58 AM
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Originally Posted by 1999Pony
Heads/cam/intake.

Trickflow has a lot of good stuff to look at. AFR heads are pretty awesome as well.
What he said right here. once you do the minor stuff you have no choice but to dig into the motor no matter what it is. do not forget all supporting mods ie: larger injectors, fuel pump and tune ( shop vs hand held/chip) for starters.
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Old Sep 20, 2012 | 08:19 AM
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cylinder heads are the number 1 improvement to the old 5.0. My old 5.0 had same mods as you plus heads and cam and made around 300rwhp.
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Old Sep 20, 2012 | 11:04 AM
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cylinder heads are the number 1 improvement to the old 5.0. My old 5.0 had same mods as you plus heads and cam and made around 300rwhp.
Sweet!

I need to do this as my next project.

What was your exact list of mods Chris?

And what gears did you run?
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Old Sep 20, 2012 | 01:44 PM
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Sweet!

I need to do this as my next project.

What was your exact list of mods Chris?

And what gears did you run?
300rwhp N/A can be had with GT40P heads and the stage 1 cam ,E cam, etc. a holley system max, RPM, Perfromer or street heat intake will do it. AFR heads, TW heads are also decent choices with the above cams or even the stage 2, Anderson cams or custom or even the Trick flow top end kit will all be in the 300rwhp or slightly above with depending on the head/tune and brand of dyno.
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Old Sep 20, 2012 | 08:15 PM
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Ya I think if I keep the car I'm going to do hci on it and ya I have plans for the fuel system also, I'd like to have it set up so I could run 42lbs + injectors no problem. And the tuner I'd like to put a laptop in the car and tune myself, I plan on doing forcing induction mayb even putting it on the bottle. The car is only weekend driver I've been building
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Old Sep 20, 2012 | 08:17 PM
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And I heard from a guy that races only mustangs that you can get some power from gt40 but you better with aluminum heads cause they are lighter with same if not more power, which is nice for shaving off those seconds
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