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The Ford dealership in Port Charlotte FL has done both my 07 and the 2024 The guy who did my 2024 was extremely careful, going so far as to make a tin foil catch pan/drain to make sure no oil got on the cross member when he pulled the filter, he also used about a half a can of brake clean or...

Different rental companies were owned by manufacturers, Ford owned Hertz for a while and you still see some Ford cars there GM owned National at one point Chrysler owned Dollar and Thrifty at one point I had an Ecoboost mustang for a rental once, a mustang ragtop at that. Probably 8 years ago...

The Toyota dealership techs are up to their eyeballs in recall work between transmissions and engines. The Korean car guys are replacing engines left and right at the dealerships GM guys with the 6.2's and D.O.D. engines with the bad cams & lifters are keeping busy too Chrysler? Just their...

heck even the current eco boost has more HP and torque than the 4.6 of the 2005 era But the eco boost motors are absolute garbage time bombs where the 4.6 and even the V6's that ended up in the cars at one point were reliable

Having owned a super low mileage one for a few years earlier this decade... 1) the body control module is subject to SERIOUS damage from water intrusion if the cowl drains get blocked, Make sure all the electrical stuff works, including the power mirrors and the drains are clear 2) The Mach...

IMHO the only way to do an e85 tune for a mass produced car is to use a sensor in the fuel line that can determine the ethanol content of the fuel in the fuel line and adjust the map for the read value. The term in use at the time was "flex fuel" as the car could adjust for the different...

Vaporware ..... software that never makes it to market If you look at what the aftermarket has released in the last month or so since the "unlocking" of the computer happened, every last tuner who is writing lines of code have said that on a stock Mustang, there was not any appreciable HP or...

trade the car in, as is to Lebanon, get a new unmolested car, do the supercharger on the new car later. You are paying the note on the car and eating the depreciation while it sits What is Ford doing about that? It is not the dealers fault, and they can only adjust the price or give you so...

there isn't a Ford engine out there, outside of the 5.0 with a gear driven oil pump that is not garbage

IIRC the Teamsters were threatening to strike the auto carriers so maybe they have been holding off shipping as they did not want cars stuck in transit on trucks that were not moving. There is a tentative agreement in place so cars should be moving.

My ragtop was about the same price, and if I didn't have the cash sitting around to waste I never would have dropped that amount of money on a car, especially one that sees under 3000 miles a year. I'm not thrilled about some dealer tech taking any part of the interior apart to get to the BCM...

the old rule of thumb was take out 1 degree of timing for every pound of boost. Where somewhere around 30 degrees is where Ford has the stock timing limited to on 93 octane and no retarding from the knock sensors Where you are trying to add cylinder pressure to a car that is something like...

I'd be more concerned about the rear end overheating than problems with the engine. With the engine you can see that it is getting hot (coolant temp, oil temp, trans temp) but there is nothing to tell you when the rear diff is getting too hot and it had been an issue on S550 and S650 cars

You have a SC430 and have complaints about the Mustang? The SC430 is one of the worst cars ever made It tries to be a lot of things and does none of them well Top Gear said it was the worst car ever made

My Ex had a dog that had to be with you in any adventure that involved internal combustion riding mowers included. It would sit in her Dad's lap when he was driving. One day I wondered if he would go on the bike I had at the time, and yes he wanted to go and we did about 10 miles with him in...

actually electric has instantaneous torque so it is better than a jet some of the fastest "supercars" including GM's E-Ray Vette have electric helper motors.

until the technology goes away A lot of cars with 3G modems lost their telematics when that service was sunsetted by AT&T , and others There is a class action lawsuit because of it Lots of features of older cars were rendered useless in 2022 when AT&T shut down the now obsolete 3G networks

see post #5 below your post and above this one. There are all sorts of ways to get the car to go faster, mash the throttle, down shift it, change driving modes, install a jet engine on the back, put Nitrous on it, etc You want to make power by torque multiplication, I want to make it by...

with the exchange rate I can't even begin to figure how much you are going to get screwed on that purchase, let alone any import fees imposed at the border. Find the 4 sh*tiest wheels and tires that will fit on the car, put them on, drive to NY, get the new stuff on the car there and drive it...

I won't be seeing my car until the end of October so I guess I'll be resetting a lot of things yet again.