Gas had been generationally cheap for decades now in the USA.
we probably need to mean revert closer to 5,6,7 a gallon. I’d expect higher prices this summer and a new wave of inflation.
there is still too much money and that’s a great way to draw down excesses.
If smell is what you’re worried about, just run E30.
The ethanol seems to kill any noticeable fuel smell.
if i run full 93 or race gas I get smells again, and tail pipes make it less noticeable too.
My old fox with off-road dumps was pretty bad, so I understand.
My good friend is on a 2.6 pulley, ID1300s and E85 tune for almost 60k miles… it’s definitely in the 900 wheel range, he’s got a group of GT500 guys also, most do have off road headers, and a few with 3.8 whipples in the low 1200 whp range.
All stock trans btw, all no issues afaik.
Every stick car I’m in nowadays, all I can feel is the loss of momentum between shifts, and it’s not like the cars are solid axle, train tracking 1/2/3
NMRA coyote stock has been deep 9s for probably a decade or more.
Sealed engines.
also that’s Flores buddy bondo bird, used to be pretty frequent in the chat.
It is so much extra work to do plugs on this car, I’d leave it alone.
You need to pull the battery, part of the rear cowl panel and remove the battery heat shield plate to get back into 7/8. Like a few hours.
When my car was brand new, the 1st thing I did was steeda progressive springs, cradle bushings, and locating dowels.
it instantly had not only much better stance and handling, but it eliminated all the slop from the IRS cradle and the car was instantly transformed.
I noticed immediately the...
I could see it being in a new gen or refresh, have a dial in my new maverick and the 1st thing my buddy said was along the lines of “GT500 shifter HELL YEAH!”
You have to understand mass production.
It was like the highest recalls last year and they still made almost 7 Billion profit, and the major reason it was down year over year was due to an aluminum supplier going down and they had to slow F150 production for several weeks.
cost benefit...
Correct, gas has been generationally cheap since 2008 peak/bust
I just appreciate the sound logic, money has value over time, and people always look past the X factor to bitch.
Point is mustangs are Fn cheap as they’ve ever been. Especially for what you get!
OP… the car is priced almost perfectly inline if you do the math.
Originally GT500s cost about $4200, the DOW was around 990.
carry it out to today… and it tracks to be 200K dollars.
you can’t use inflation calculators… they just show the difference in the quantity of money… you must use DOW...