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Bang for the buck, or smiles per mile Say you can get the FP kit installed with a $9200 cost for the kit, $3000 in labor, toss in some catch cans for $500 give or take. That puts you at the point where Ford thinks the engine, transmission, and axles are not going to fail putting them on the...

You will have a lot of aggravation trying to get them to match the color of the car Look at bumper covers in a parking lot sometime You will notice most of them are just a shade off the color of the surrounding painted metal pieces. Trying to paint black plastic to match a body color is not...

That is going to be a pretty base level Mustang for 53K with a Whipple. Like 300A and a stick. A Ford Performance Whipple kit is going to be a tad over 9 grand, and assume another $3000 to install it, and that is without catch cans, axles and other stuff you might want to have if you are going...

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I had the tires on my daily driver set to 35PSI cold when I left FL to come back north for the summer. The set pressure in the computer is also 35 PSI We had a run of days where the temp was under 50 degrees and my TPMS was on for 3 days as the tires were down to 31 PSI on all 4 corners. As...

Must be nice to be rich Rumor has it the drift brake is going away, unconfirmed but possible. I too was going to Whipple mine, but once I got the car I found out that the 400+ HP at the wheels was enough for me. YMMV You are talking well north of 70K for the car and the Whipple install, plus...

If someone could have tuned the car, it would have been done by now. Ford, for lack of a better term, has the encryption between modules so secure someone is going to have to reverse engineer a whole PCM, BCM, and every other module in the car and come up with a stand alone system that plugs...

OK a car that depreciates like a rock, you are at least 25% down on depreciation as the car is now pushing 2.5 model years old. It is typical you lose 1/3 in 3 years and over 50% in five , sometimes closer to 60% It is a niche car, it isn't a family car, the back seat is useless so forget...

The Mustang is Ford's current Halo car, like the Vette is to GM, they may sell them even at a low profit margin just for the name value. From MY24 to MY25, my car's MSRP went up close to $4000 The sticker on my 24 was $58,515 now it is easily over $62K Even with A/Z plan pricing the 2025 GT...

I stand corrected

Schrader makes the TPMS sensors and IMHO they are some of the best out there. Cripes just PSI from 48 to 75 degrees is 3 PSI different Here's the deal, we are FORCED to have TPMS sensors by the Feds because of the BS Ford and Firestone did in the mid 1990's with the Explorer Because they...

Exactly, the cheap gas stations that are unbranded or are discount brands ( BJ;s, Costco, etc) are buying the EPA formulated gas without the additives the majors put in such as detergents above and beyond the EPA formulation They are saving on marketing costs and by buying plain generic...

Bike oils especially where the clutch runs in oil has to have an oil with no molybdenum in it. I like Valvoline VR-4 in my Harleys because it is high zinc and the cams and lifters love zinc in the transmission and primary I run Red Line or other hole specific lubricant. The Kawasaki's always...

I will be waiting for the weekly reaming I will get from one of the members for posting this but Adding Techron is great on a car that adds all the fuel thru the intake manifold Cars that have gas direct injection especially Ecoboosts have a horrible history of the intake valves carboning up...

Yes the 5.0 has high compression, but it is cylinder pressure and hot spots in the combustion chamber that cause "pinging" or pre-detonation of the fuel that can cause bad things such as bent rods and hammered bearings. The car has microphones in the block, more commonly known as knock sensors...

If you are a DRP shop, you are giving up something to get the work. The insurance company is telling you that you will make more money on the volume of work. Body work is a very low margin insustry You are taking a lower flat rate, you are getting restrictions such as the one I mentioned above...

that is the problem, the work is not done correctly I had one that I did at the drive in claims site, looked pretty simple, repair the bumper cover and incidentals. Wrote it up, sent the owner on their way, a few weeks later I get a call to go see it at the shop with the cover off it. Yes...

Many appraisers will not open a damaged hood, as we don't want the liability if it won't close and or it doesn't latch properly and then opens going down the road, obscuring the drivers view etc etc etc. When in doubt I would put at the top of those types of appraisals "Visible Damage Only"...

Anytime a shop is a "preferred" or "approved" shop, the shop has crawled into bed with the insurance company to get work, and you are getting shafted in the process. Here is an example, or maybe 2 depending on how much I want to type. 1) MAPFRE preferred shops get paid .3 hrs to sand and buff...

my reply was for the OP who is in South Carolina, and from my house to Florence SC is about an 9 hour drive