It started innocently enough with an offroad H pipe. I just wanted a meaner sound and figured getting rid of the origional 6 cats has to be worth a few horses. I said to myself, this is probably the only modification the car will ever see. She is such a sweet and nice daily driver, I didn't want to ruin it. Then, it came time to replace the air filter. Hmm, looks like a drop in K&N is only a bit more expensive and would pay for itself in the time I plan to keep the car. Maybe it would gain 0.1 mpg too. So a K&N was dropped in and out came the stupid looking intake silencer attached to the airbox. Two mods for one. Later, I ended up getting an underdrive crank and waterpump pulley for free, included with a shortblock I bought. I decided that if I can use the stock length belt (since I just bought a new belt), that I'd run the pulleys. Sure enough, the stock length belt works fine and I have another modification. So now I've got an offroad H, drop in K&N, removed air silencer, underdrive pulleys, and I'm keeping an eye out for more. Anyone want to sell me PI cams or a intake for cheap? I have to say though, the car is a lot more responsive and fun to drive now. It all started like this on the 88 mustang too: that little 2.3L went from 19.x @ 65mph to 12.2 @ 111mph over the course of the 9 years I've had the car.
next will be ported heads, cams, and longtubes...lol i dont know when your looking to get a pi intake, but mine will be coming off in about a month or so, and being replaced with my edelbrock intake, i was planning on selling it and would let it go pretty cheap, has less then 5k miles on it, and has aluminum crossover...
Yea I had the gun mod bug hit me hard a while back, thats why I haven't been on here a lot lately. I'm slowing down on the gun mods and needing to get back to modding the stang. I'm itching again and ever since I got my SFC's in, I want to do a lot more to it.
Yea, it seems all mustang owners go through the same stages asthe posted thread member, with me it started with the K and N filter, but the car already had one, my mistake, wasted 50 bucks, just a begginer stanger. then I removed the silencer also. Then read how make my own cold air intake, kinda neat, can always say that I did it, more trouble than its worth though, so on and so forth, but to say the least, HORSE POWER IS ADDICTIVE Oh yea, Throttle body, Upper and lower plenum, then maybe a tune, depends on your depth of wallet. Its kinda oxymoron with the phrase CheapMods, unless its just removing somthing, but yea, you kinda have to have tools.
Its the bug and its lke crack guy. Besides who said you can't have a fast daily driver? Oh by the have a set of P.I. heads off my 02gt. Valves, stock cams and springs included. Looking to get rid of cheap. In Texas tho so dont know about shipping.
