Loved those fox bodies, but boy could the rear end come around quick on you at the worst times.
I had a heavy vert so maybe that helped, or I was always lucky, but mine liked to go straight. I used to like to stand on it in the rain while going down the highway to scare friends and it would go straight. Would spin off the line, but go straight. Even with the turbo, I could light the tires from 50MPH rolling and it would keep going straight. YMMV. I never really did much road racing with the Mustang. I put skinnies on the front so it felt like you were going to die if you turned to keep me from speeding everywhere. I did damn near end up in a field when some Focus SVT tried to keep up and I wanted him to disappear when it was closer to stock form. I can't blame the Mustang though. I don't think most cars take turns at around 70MPH in the rain under throttle all that great. My friend was holding on for dear life that day. lol
I should clarify that it would happen when turning from a stop or even low speed. Like one time I was going slow in the turn lane and heading into a gas station when I gave it a bit too much gas. I did a near 360 against oncoming traffic. It came out looking (to me) awesome the way it straightened out and lined up perfectly, but I was 19 so everything stupid looks cool. I'm sure the people in the cars watching thought I was a complete idiot. Another time I let my buddy drive it and we pulled out onto a 45 mph rode that everyone sped on. Anyway, again, against oncoming traffic he did the same thing and luckily pulled it off, but it was extremely frightening that time. Months later I let another friend drive it alone and it never came home. He wrapped it around a telephone pole and that was then end of fast cars for me until a few years ago.
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Short answer : $. The budget to even maintain that car got way out of my league. I'm lucky to keep scooters going. I owned the Mustang for 12 or 13 years and poured nearly every penny I could come up with into it for much of that time. No loss of interest, just lack of funds. Once I decided to go turbo, things got ridiculous.
Here are a few clips of it just with the 331 NA and AOD at the time (had a super comp C4 later).
Really wish I had better vids of it with the turbo. This is all I have. The one street vid, the cam was set wrong (I think to some night setting) so it was super bright. Good for sound though.
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Mrs Bud 10/06/22 you are not going to pull that engine apart and put lots of new bits in it, are you?
What where your quarter mile numbers brent? That car looked sick man. Maybe you should try your luck with boosted 4t scooters? That would be cool!
I only took it to the track once on motor and they kicked me out after the first pass of 13.01 for not having a helmet. That was before I was into little bikes. It should have ran in the mid-high 12s. Quick at the time for a regular driver, now every new V8 Mustang and Camaro does that.
No idea what it would do in the 1/4 with the turbo. I never cared much about times though, because I always raced on the street. Without slicks or drag radials, prob not a lot quicker but faster than before. Had most of the stuff to do the rear and swap to sticky tires, but never got there. Never got the car all that close to where it could have been because of silly issues and money. I was only on 8 pounds of boost and wanted to go up to 12psi. It never was in a good state of tune even on 8, but still much faster than before. Made 402HP/470TQ at the wheels with one cylinder not really working, overheating, and AFR for the whole engine off because of that I think. Justin Burcham of JPC and a DiabloSport rep tuned it and Justin did the road test. He's a well known Mustang racer and told me not to worry about dyno racing anyone because the car was faster than the numbers seemed to show... and that was with it smoking from a head gasket failure. Said he never noticed the smoke till the end of the road test.
I only ever raced one car with the turbo setup, still out of tune. I found a Corvette on the highway on the way home from a friend's house and he was willing to participate in a little straight line acceleration exhibition from a rolling 55-60MPH. He disappeared behind me so bad that I could hardly tell he tried.
The ability of boost to transform an engine impressed me, but I'm not too sure how much I want to get into that on scooters. It's a lot of work and not really practical. Maybe on a 4T someday if I convert to EFI to make it a bit easier, but I'm not really into trailer queens and I think it would run too hot and be too much stress for real riding. Don't see the point of piling time and money into something I prob couldn't ride 200 miles a day and prob wouldn't be very fast anyway since it would likely be a 49cc based 4T.
Post by bluegoatwoods on Jun 14, 2017 13:40:15 GMT -5
Here's one I've always liked.
I have a soft spot in my heart for Chryslers of the 1960s and 1970s. Most people think of them as the 'poor cousin' of the big three. And I agree with them.
Their cars were often weird and funny looking. Some were pretty good looking. But not everyone would agree on a particular model. Though I do think that most people would say that the 67-69 Barracuda Sport was a winner.
They tended to have quirks that made you wonder if Larry, Moe and Curly were the engineers. Some of the stuff you'd find in them was just wrong, wrong, wrong! But you still couldn't help but love the car.
I have always maintained that, in that era, Chrysler had the best automatic transmissions. But the automatics from Ford and GM today seem to have caught up. And it's hard to say that any one of the big three had the best V-8 engines. But I love the Chrysler 318 and 360. Never had a 340, but the reputation seems to be just as good as those others.
In my younger years working minimum wage and coaxing old junker cars to get me to work one more time, Chryslers always did best for me. (The other two didn't do so badly. But Chrysler did best.) Even when they were just about falling apart, and not really road worthy at all, they'd still get us to our ridiculous 6 AM jobs in Michigan winters. And then they'd get us home again. I was fond of saying that I could fill that gas tank with coal dust and that car (and sometimes a Dodge truck) would still get me to and from work. And it might have even been true.
I had a 1974 2 door, long wheel base, Plymouth Valiant once. 318 engine and front disc brakes (which wasn't necessarily standard back then). Even with it's annoying quirks (don't get me started on that...) it was to die for. I pulled the silly front bench seat and put in a couple of low-back buckets. And with that, that car looked nearly as cool as the one pictured above. Very similar. But with more straight lines. Some of you guys will know the model I'm talking about.
I've reached the age where there's a lot of different cars, trucks, motorcycles and such in my background. And I miss some of them more than others. That Valiant might be the one I miss most. It's certainly in the running.
Post by bluegoatwoods on Jun 14, 2017 19:31:26 GMT -5
Oh....by the way......that Plymouth Barracuda Sport I posted above?
It almost surely had drum brakes on all four wheels. That was standard equipment for that model, anyway. I'm willing to believe that front disks were available as an option. But I don't know for sure.
A lot of us guys from back then would just love to drive that car. Or a '68 Camaro, for instance.
But the fact is that those were primitive cars, and pretty unsafe, by today's standards.
I'd still be happy to drive one, though. I'd just have to be very, very careful about it.
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What do you all think of this. I loved the original movie when I was ten. Good idea of not?
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Mrs Bud 10/06/22 you are not going to pull that engine apart and put lots of new bits in it, are you?
I think it's a cool idea, but they made the tail section ugly. Even though they were always pretty much a Camaro with different body work, it's a shame there is no actual production Pontiac Firebird/Trans Am. They still make the Chevy/GMC rebadges but ditched the cool ones. I always thought the 4th gen Pontiacs were better looking, especially the WS6. Knight Rider was also an F-body icon. I used to have a Knight Rider-style light hidden in the gap between my hood and front bumper cover so you could only see it when on. Loved to blast the theme song and cruise around with it on when I was young. lol
My old 'bird...
Same car after my friend bought it and made it into the "Trans Sham"...
Side note : I've prob had more fun with the Mercury Grand Marquis in the background of that last pic than any car I've ever owned.
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