We need some datalogs to visualize the difference in knock activity… that might help some people understand better…
If you KNEW that 87 was causing your engine to detonate and 93 alleviated most or all of the knock.
I had a procharger on my 2014 5.0, p1, big red bov, manual…
Car was fun as hell, probably only 600whp, maybe 650ish, but with the solid axle it would go sideways and hold really well at speed!
Sounded like a street sweeper, no hiding it.
I do really enjoy all the extra TQ from the whipple, but...
I’m so glad I got a BASE 300a GT.
43k, 1.5k for headers, 10k for a whipple stage 2.
At 55K all in, nothing on the market can touch the performance/value bargain.
Prices will only go up from here, perhaps slower.
And Ford is going for margin over revenue, they would rather sell fewer units at...
I really wanted a procharger 18 MONTHS AGO!!!
a D1X would’ve been a perfect blower, they just couldn’t bring a kit to market in time.
Went with whipple when they released, even got the new tune update, car checked off every goal on my list.
I run in drag mode with traction control and advance trac off…
No traction control = better possible et/mph but the risk of spinning through the 1st few gears
Wasn’t a problem after I put drag radials on it..
Also my local track has very narrow lanes with big tight concrete barriers…
A lot of...
They are impressive, my foxbody would need aftermarket heads, cam, intake and supporting mods to run low 12s, and eat a T5 transmission every other year.
And it’s 1000lbs lighter
I’ve made probably between 15-20 passes, probably 5, maybe 6 trips to the track.
Prep matters a lot, you want to get a drag radial on there, I had a FEW dangerous shifts 2-3 where the ass kicked out at speed and had to let out.
It wasn’t worth hitting the wall because I was on continentals...
SAE smoothing 5 in 7th gear, manual mode, let her rip.
May run out of RPM due to speed limiter depending on gears, tune.
If you have to go down to 6th to wind it out your numbers will read lower
That’s all there is to it.
Totally reasonable, I have never dynoed my car, the 40rwhp is an estimate from picking up over 4mph at the track in worse air…
Not sure how it would look on a dyno, as you’re not actually moving, but at the strip in the real world the gains averaged 40hp plus when you reverse all the math...
Headers were my 1st bolt on at maybe 2k miles…
put 1 or 2k miles on it and you’re good to go, I picked up close to 40rwhp according to my track slips fwiw…
Definitely noticeable HP up top and TQ down low.