ORANGE FURY S550 MUSTANG Thread

That looks amazing in the sun!

WOW!!! The '18's look real good! It even takes better pictures than the '15-'17's did. The weird camera perception of the '15's front 3/4 that wasn't present in person. I am thinking some of those very first '15 pics had a lot of light pollution throwing people's initial perception off...


...in person however, the 2015 was stunning. The 2018 is even better than the '15, on paper and in person.

Orange Fury looks much better in this photo.

Never been a fan of orange cars, but I kind of like this one. Could make my top 3 color choices for the 2018.

Bad bad zoot

Bad wicked Zoot...
Add turbo, take to COTA and harass rich people.

Honestly sort of an eye sore, at least to me.

sorry guys but still looks yellow to me. similar to the yellow blaze on the 12 boss
and still looks close to grabber orange on the 07-09. will have to compare side by side with all these colors hopefully one day (the perfect storm thing i guess)

Love the body color.
Not so much the front end. :headbonk:

I don't like the front chin spoiler. It actually is small and angles up instead of down to catch air and for down force, which means it wont work well. Car sits to high off ground too. Darn mustang still has very dull, dim LED DRL's.... The most dim on the market with no aftermarket upgrades to make them brighter and day light visible. Diode dynamics are not bright at all. If the darn car had some right DRL's, it would have personality and character, but it has such lifeless led DRL's.

BluFlash5x8 said:

I don't like the front chin spoiler. Car sits to high off ground too.

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I concur.
I don't like the hood vents either. :tsk:

OF

Found this online.

I've been selling mustangs for 14 yrs. I'm a master mustang specialist at my Ford store. I've had a 04' Termi, 12' GT500, a 13' V6 PP (the GT of same yrs were called Track Packs), a 14' GT. When the 2 bar horizontal DRL LED's came out they were kool looking, but dull and dim, not very visible till the sun was almost gone. Same for the new S550 mustangs, and I see Ford did not address the DRL's lack of brightness in daylight, again for 2018. And the air catching hood that hangs over the head lights in the "tearduct" area near the nose on both sides, is still an air catcher. Why can't the headlights be flush. There's videos of these hoods catching air like a sail above 70 mph and bulging up almost 1.5" .... Not good. At least the "China Tranny" MT82 is no longer a China built unit in the 18!s. It's the same one that's in the GT350.

And since automatics hook up much better on the 1/4 track, I'm going the auto trend route this time. I'm getting "clutchitis" ....

The car could stand to lose 100-150 lbs too. And at least get down back near the 11-14' GT's, in the 3625-3685 lb weight zone. I'm also curious if the new 5.0 will take to tuning well. Going to DI was a mistake, it really does not improve fuel economy, but adding port injections n was smart considering that DI is similar to fuel starvation, by only covering 70% of the valves with fuel, hence the huge engine failures of vehicles with DI-only engines such as the Ecoboosts, and the Germans all having similar troubles. We shall see. At least the port injection gets that extra 25-30% of fuel on the back side of the valves for full coverage. I told Hamedi and Fields that they need to bring us 455-470 hp on 91 octane to match or beat the competition, and stop rating power on 93 octane because nobody else does.

In 91 or less octane states, like CA, NV Utah, AZ, NM, OR, etc, the new mustangs are 10-12 hp lower than advertised, but dealers don't tell people that. Customers think they're getting 435 hp. Yes, but only on 93-95 octane fuel. On 91 it's 421-424 hp... Same for all Ecoboost motors. Lower hp and tq. Not to mention when folks go to test drive these cars, they're on 87 octane which is a 400-404 hp mustang gt, while the Camaro SS up the street is still at nearly 445 hp on 87....

The ROUSH heat extractor vent upg are looks better, similar to the 2013-14's... This is why it's not good to run an open air air filter under the hood. All the hot air gets pulled from the engine out those vents, which are RIGHT above the Air box.