[Donatello.]

Originally Posted by Weather Man

I plan to add a Mustang GT to the garage before they kill off Coyote. It'll look nice next to my M4.

Oh so not this $76k version that you fought me on? LOL

FYI, I've owned many stangs back in the day so not against them. I am against the current insane new vehicle pricing

[Donatello.]

Originally Posted by Weather Man

Had a 19 Mustang GT, enjoyed it greatly. Still have my 08 Mustang, which is on its 5th reincarnation (my boat with wheels).

As far as sleeper, a lot of high-end cars will be surprised as it walks past them, if the Mustang with this supercharger kit has a driver. Thats what a sleeper does, makes the other guy go "no way!".

So how fast is your 08?

[Weather Man]

Originally Posted by Donatello.

So how fast is your 08?

No strip, was all street. NA build, 67mm turbo, 74 turbo, 83 turbo, 3.4 Whipple and now back to stock.

[Donatello.]

Originally Posted by Weather Man

No strip, was all street. NA build, 67mm turbo, 74 turbo, 83 turbo, 3.4 Whipple and now back to stock.

Back to stock? Booooooooooooooo
What was WHP?

[Weather Man]

Originally Posted by Donatello.

Back to stock? Booooooooooooooo
What was WHP?

Stock was 264, na 336, 67 599, 74 711, 83 and 3.4 800 but could have been higher for strictly strip. Anything over 800, even with drag radials was to hit or miss with traction on the street. The 83 just wasn't workable.

Was going to Coyote swap it, but shops that do that work in MN have pretty much disappeared, so back to stock she goes. I had my fun, will stick with bone stock cars now.

[Donatello.]

Originally Posted by Weather Man

Stock was 264, na 336, 67 599, 74 711, 83 and 3.4 800 but could have been higher for strictly strip. Anything over 800, even with drag radials was to hit or miss with traction on the street. The 83 just wasn't workable.

Was going to Coyote swap it, but shops that do that work in MN have pretty much disappeared, so back to stock she goes. I had my fun, will stick with bone stock cars now.

Famous last words lol

[XutvJet]

Originally Posted by Donatello.

I've owned some fast stangs, but my fastest one was a fox body built for the drag strip. I drove it on the street just fine. Never wrecked it or got into an accidents & this was decades ago in my 20s. It was a 10 second car on the bottle. My C6Z was probably faster, but never tracked it.

Too many people suck at driving & lack common sense is the problem

I get what you're saying, but as I've gotten older (50 in a month), I've become less and less enthralled with high powered cars. My Stage 2 M235 6MT is much faster than my 265hp Cayman (low 12 second car vs mid 13 second car), but the Cayman is WAY more fun to drive. Obviously handling is amazing, but even the power in the Cayman is fine because it's very responsive above 4500rpms, I can hammer it on the street, power is linear, it launches hard, sounds amazing, etc. I love my M235, but after 7+ years of ownership, most of it at Stage 2 power, I just can't use the power on the street plus the torque delivery is such that you do have to have a level of awareness with throttle, rpms, the tires, chassis, etc. to keep the car on the road. With the Cayman, there is awareness too, but that awareness is adjusting to it's high handling limits. I'll get a 2017-2018 M2 DCT to replace my M235 and I have no intentions to even tune it. I'll put on my catted DP to gain 20whp/20wtq and that's it. It should be perfect for the street and still faster than 99% of the vehicles on the road and it should stick well too.

Between your Hellcat and Miata, which would you take if you had to choose one as your only performance car?

[Donatello.]

Originally Posted by XutvJet

I get what you're saying, but as I've gotten older (50 in a month), I've become less and less enthralled with high powered cars. My Stage 2 M235 6MT is much faster than my 265hp Cayman (low 12 second car vs mid 13 second car), but the Cayman is WAY more fun to drive. Obviously handling is amazing, but even the power in the Cayman is fine because it's very responsive above 4500rpms, I can hammer it on the street, power is linear, it launches hard, sounds amazing, etc. I love my M235, but after 7+ years of ownership, most of it at Stage 2 power, I just can't use the power on the street plus the torque delivery is such that you do have to have a level of awareness with throttle, rpms, the tires, chassis, etc. to keep the car on the road. With the Cayman, there is awareness too, but that awareness is adjusting to it's high handling limits. I'll get a 2017-2018 M2 DCT to replace my M235 and I have no intentions to even tune it. I'll put on my catted DP to gain 20whp/20wtq and that's it. It should be perfect for the street and still faster than 99% of the vehicles on the road and it should stick well too.

Between your Hellcat and Miata, which would you take if you had to choose one as your only performance car?

The saying of it's more fun to drive a slow car fast vs a fast car slow is true. My Miata is clearly not fast in a straight line, but still fun as hell to drive at normal speed.

I have the best of both worlds. The Miata & the Hellcat.