Can we list every aftermarket +05 mustang?
#21
wally05: I know I'm happy about it!
Ford alone offers three racing versions--or maybe it's three with two sub-versions for Europe's FIA GT3 and FIA GT4 classes. Steeda, Kenny Brown, Griggs, and maybe another tuner or two build turnkey roadracing versions, too, and several other tuners have roadracing kits they will install on your S197 if you bring your Mustang--and your checkbook--by their facilities. Roush and several others build dragracing versions for the 1320 crowd.
Mustangs are inexpensive enough and solid enough that they are the natural choice for power upgrades for all these tuner companies--even Viper tuner Jack Hennessey offers several stages of upgrades for the GT500 and Ford GT, as does Steeda, Shelby of course, and one other I read about some months ago but can't recall now.
Some people will build their own, of course, and that's a cost-saving method if you have the tools, the skills, and a place in which to do a build-up.
Next Spring, Ford will build the nine millionth Mustang--would anyone really want them all to be the same?
Greg "Eights" Ates
Ford alone offers three racing versions--or maybe it's three with two sub-versions for Europe's FIA GT3 and FIA GT4 classes. Steeda, Kenny Brown, Griggs, and maybe another tuner or two build turnkey roadracing versions, too, and several other tuners have roadracing kits they will install on your S197 if you bring your Mustang--and your checkbook--by their facilities. Roush and several others build dragracing versions for the 1320 crowd.
Mustangs are inexpensive enough and solid enough that they are the natural choice for power upgrades for all these tuner companies--even Viper tuner Jack Hennessey offers several stages of upgrades for the GT500 and Ford GT, as does Steeda, Shelby of course, and one other I read about some months ago but can't recall now.
Some people will build their own, of course, and that's a cost-saving method if you have the tools, the skills, and a place in which to do a build-up.
Next Spring, Ford will build the nine millionth Mustang--would anyone really want them all to be the same?
Greg "Eights" Ates
#24
Before they cut back the options in 07, someone calculated that Ford offered 16,000 different variations of the Mustang (figuring engine options, trim lines, color choices, wheels, interior options, etc.). That was straight from the dealer. So what's another 80 or 90 from the aftermarket?
#25
BTW, I'd like reading serious roadtests of the latest 750 HP Shinoda S197 (serious roadtests--instrumented SS quartermile times/speeds, measured braking distances from many speeds, lap times at roadracing tracks, etc--not some "Wow, you can feel just how much better this baby performs than the stock Mustang GT" BS you'd find in "Modified Mustangs" or "Mustang Enthusiast"). Do you have a source for some serious 750 HP Shinoda S197 roadtesting??? Website blog or hardcopy magazine article--either one. With half again the power of a GT500, the test figures should be pretty outrageous!
Greg "Eights" Ates
#27
How can that be too many???
My two cents (or two percent, perhaps ).
Greg "Eights" Ates
#28
The Mustang News has an article on the new Saleen 25th anniversary S197: the Saleen S302-E Sterling Edition. It's costly ($100,000), badassed (a 620 HP supercharged 302 cubic inch three-valver), sporty (15" discs), beautiful (more tasteful bolt-on bodywork than regular Saleens), and rare (25 to be built).
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