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My 2016 modded Mustang Ecoboost has been sitting in my Florida garage over the past 5 weeks while I was up in Indiana helping my girlfriend renovate her apartment building.

I get back and now have taken it out 3 times over the past 3 days and car seems absolutely supercharged, it's so quick that's it stupid. Before I left the car seem a little draggy with hints of turbo lag, all that now appears to be gone.

Can anyone offer any suggestions as to what is going on.

Thanks
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That's enough time for your senses to "forget" exactly how it felt before. You were used to it 5 weeks ago, now you're not. :) I say it's 99% psychological.

Happened to me all the time when I would drive my Buick LeSabre for a few weeks then get back in my 300whp turbo'd GTI.
 

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That's enough time for your senses to "forget" exactly how it felt before. You were used to it 5 weeks ago, now you're not. :) I say it's 99% psychological.

Happened to me all the time when I would drive my Buick LeSabre for a few weeks then get back in my 300whp turbo'd GTI.

I'd really have to agree with SiMul
 

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Having my car sit all winter then geting back into it, yeah, it's psychological. And remember, I have less torque down low than you until 3000 RPM.
 

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Did you check under the hood? Maybe Xzibit paid you a visit and pimped your ride.
 

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Butt dyno was calibrated.
 

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What were you driving up there? I know when I've driven a rental or some other vehicle for a week without driving my own car it feels different and it's like having to re-learn it again.
 

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Butt dyno calibration.
 

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I drive my wife's Edge for a couple days my car feels pretty special and fast/quick when I get back in.
 

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The performance gremlins came while you were away and worked on your car. :lol: :lol: :lol:
 

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If you were driving your girlfriend Yugo for five weeks, hence the perception your Ecoboost is faster
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