When The Fox Was New Who Was The Big Name In The Aftermarket?

[90lxwhite]

For the O.G. Fox fans who was making waves at the time in the aftermarket when they were rolling off the assembly line? Is it pretty much the same manufactures we have now? How are the leaders of yesteryear fairing today? What's seen the most improvement through the years, the power or suspension department? Do yall remember when dyno tuning became accessible to the common man? Was it revolutionary?

 

[madspeed]

JBA or Ford headers were popular, Hurst shifter and Ford off road h pipe with flowmaster mufflers. Pretty much everyone had that combo

 

[90lxwhite]

JBA or Ford headers were popular, Hurst shifter and Ford off road h pipe with flowmaster mufflers. Pretty much everyone had that combo

When did heads become a mandatory, around 93? Did the trick flows and eddlebrock's etc step up their game?

 

[A5literMan]

In the 80's it was all about bolt ons. Shorty headers,flowmasters,pulleys,Hypertech chip,k&n filter,ford motorsports,etc. Alum heads started coming into play around the early 90's but they were few and far between. Paxton and Vortech blowers were the popular go to and a few nitrous cars. I remember when you could get a blower for under 2k. Popular suspension was eibach,steeda and maximum motorsports.

 

[MFE92]

People were doing heads well before '93 but they were using '69-70 351W parts to do it before Ford Racing and others came out with theirs.

 

[A5literMan]

The first aluminum headed mustang I saw in person was the early 90's and they were canfields. I remember when summit first started advertising the trick flow twisted wedges. It only took me 20 years to actually buy some. Lol

 

[Decipha]

I remember nitrous being the go to back then, seemed like every fox body was spraying

 

[A5literMan]

I remember nitrous being the go to back then, seemed like every fox body was spraying

I was

 

[Noobz347]

The first off the shelf HCI that I remember (as a complete kit) was the Holley Systemax kit.

 

[90lxwhite]

The first off the shelf HCI that I remember (as a complete kit) was the Holley Systemax kit.

Was it high?

 

[Noobz347]

Was it high?

I joined during the invention of fuel injection so I was eye level with the Holley Systemax II. Was it high? It was not within my reach as a high school student (student being subjective) working part time at the mall.

So yeah, we both were.

 

[Sharad]

For the O.G. Fox fans who was making waves at the time in the aftermarket when they were rolling off the assembly line? Is it pretty much the same manufactures we have now? How are the leaders of yesteryear fairing today? What's seen the most improvement through the years, the power or suspension department? Do yall remember when dyno tuning became accessible to the common man? Was it revolutionary?

When these cars were still being made, Special Vehicle Operations (now Ford Performance) was pretty much the only name in the game. We waited with huge anticipation for the new catalog to come out every year. There wasn't any aftermarket at all in the beginning. Everyone was sure that newfangled EFI garbage would destroy the muscle car market. The most improvement has been in the tuning realm. Back then, we could only mess with the timing, TPS, and fuel pressure. Now, your average joe can self tune an outlaw car with his laptop.

Fwiw, UPR has been in the suspension business since the 90s.

 

[7991LXnSHO]

Kenny Brown and BBK are the first aftermarket names that come to memory after SVO. That was a poor name change. FRPP sounds like a Honda with a bad muffler.