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fluid level is good, that was the first thing I checked when I got home. The light is coming on completely randomly. Sometimes when braking, sometimes just driving. Sometimes just a flash, sometimes a few seconds, sometimes several minutes. Mostly just annoying now that I'm not worrying...

Cool, I should be ok then. I'm in Va, not too much snow here and I grew up driving in Iowa without ABS, so no problem. Thanks for getting back to me, guys.

Ok, so around march or april or something this year my traction control started kicking in randomly. I had no money, so I started just driving with it off. As of today my ABS light is randomly coming on. Brakes seem to function fine while it is on. So, keeping in mind that I'm mechanically...

Damn. I take it that the sensor is in an unlikely place to have gotten bumped? I haven't had much luck in finding info specific to the tcs on the mustang, just general tcs stuff, so I've got no idea where the sensors actually are beyond guessing probably somewhere near the rear brakes. This...

No, I' not, but I did realize something this morning. I just had new rear brake pads put on just over a week ago. I suspect the chances may be good that something got bumped or not tightened down enough and slipped or whatever and is causing the sensor to read wrong. I also did some...

Anyone here know the TCS on the '99+ cobra inside and out? What does it look at when deciding to kick in? My TCS has turned on 4 times today when it shouldn't have, under steady speed or mild accelleration in 4th gear, where there's no reason to lose traction. I am 99% sure I've got a bad...

Thanks guys, not as bad as I was thinking it would be if you're right. As far as the t-stat housing, not yet, I didn't even think to have a look at that. I'll climb under there after work tomorrow (I'll just steal my fiance's car for now) and have a look at that and the hole for hte water pump.

Well, it's been awhile since I've been here, but my car is borked. I've got a 1999 Cobra with about 60k miles on it. Today when I went to go to work I got the low coolant light, checked and had very little coolant in the reservoir. I added more, drove to work and back home, checked and my...

Mine gets a 5 day/week round trip drive of anywehre from 60-80 miles depending on exactly where I'm contracted to work at the time. I'd like to get my old SHO back up and running to use as my daily driver, but just can't justify the cost of fixing it plus having to add another car to pay...

Good thinking here. This makes sense to me. He says he hears a clicking when trying to start the car. When you're not getting power from your battery you hear a clicking when trying to start. The dead battery was my first thought when I read it, I just couldn't figure out what the loud pop...

There was a thread awhile back where someone actually tested this. There was like a 7-10 degree difference in temps at idle. At 15mph it was only like 3 deg difference. I know I have always heard you gain about 1hp at the motor for each 10 deg drop in air temp. So assuming that's close to...

Back in the day when I was stuck in a little 2.3L stang I raced cars that I knew were faster than me. I did it because I wanted to see them run and see just how fast they were compared to my slow POS. I realize that a lot of the people out there ARE retards who really think they're fast, but...

Yeah, I think they're mid-14ish to low 15s, I'm not sure which is more common, and of course it depends on the year... looks like earlier gtp's were at 235hp or lower and I'm not sure what the torque on those was.

Just looked on edmunds.com... 235 hp for 2003, 255 for 2004, and 260 hp for 2005. Not on any before that. In any case, enough to be fun stock, but not enough to take a stang as they probably weigh more, too. I've talked to some owners though and they seem to take well to mods, which seems...

No one ever tries to race me. It's boring.

Are you sure these aren't Grand Prix GTP's? Those can be made fairly badass for not too much money and aren't bad straight from the factory for a sedan. They're I think 240hp and 280tq at the motor when stock. That may vary depending on the year.

Yep. I'm going 4.30 as soon as I've got another car to make the 80 mile round trip for work everyday or I get the chance to move closer to work.

Yep, carb cleaner will do the trick. I Just spray into the holes and shake it around a bit... maybe use a wire brush to scrub it some. As said above, cleaning is just a temp fix. In the end you really will need to replace it.

Had on in my 5.0, too. I beat the hell out of that thing and it kept right on gripping. I remember it being pretty heavy and hard to press but last time I drove the car (it was stuck in iowa for several years while I lived in Va, it's since been sold) it was really really light compared to...

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