Lazyitis
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- Paul
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A great big Hi to all of you at Mustang6G!
I really should have done this ages ago, as I’ve been lurking and sucking up information for quite some time. I’m not called lazy for nothing.
My Comp Orange GT should be mid-Atlantic on the freighter Oberon. I placed my order last May I think it was. That didn’t go particularly well as I’d spent quite a bit of effort trying for a discount. But by the time it had sunk in that that wasn’t going to happen, Ford had whacked up the price by a thousand quid. D’oh!
Anyway, I was perfectly pleased with my spec at first (ticked everything bar the “Custom” bits) but as time dragged on I read stuff and gazed at so many pictures and videos that the modding bug bit. It started innocently enough with some rocker (sill) stripes and some 20mm bolt-on wheel spacers – closely followed by some 3mm ones as I hadn’t properly researched the stud length issue. However, since my build was confirmed my condition has worsened, resulting in the following:
Magnaflow “street” cat-back exhaust (I’ll come back to this).
Barton shifter (and this)
KW Variant 3 “coil-overs” (and this too)
GT350 steering wheel
BMR Cradle Bushing Lockout Kit
Plus sundry other bits: the Ford Racing gear knob, Barton reverse lockout billet, a massively overpriced billet gear knob from AM (yes, that’s 2 gear knobs!), FRPP hood struts, LED interior conversion kit.
The Magnaflow is something I should have mentioned here long ago, as I’m not sure anybody else has. I paid just £840, delivered, for it from a UK company on eBay, which is pretty much what is paid in the US. There is now another UK company selling them for £800. I went for the “street” because I wanted something deeper sounding and a little louder than the wheezing stock item but hopefully still able to get through an MOT. The “competition” version is also available in cat-back and axle-back for those that hate their neighbours. I have no affiliation to the sellers, or Magnaflow, but at these prices for a top quality product it just seemed like a no-brainer without some special reason to pay much more for another brand or import an MBRP.
I was none too impressed by the shift action when I drove a demo a while back although this wasn’t unexpected from what I’d read on Mustang6G. I’m as old as the hills and remember when in-line RWD European cars could have a rifle-bolt shift. I chose Barton over MGW because of their video describing the reasoning behind pretty much every tiny component. I’m an engineer and Mr Barton is a man who is so damned, well, OCD fussy I couldn’t refuse. It’s a thing of wonder to actually hold. No ideas how they can turn a profit on these. I just hope it lives up to the promise!
The KW “coil-overs” (which, comprising a replacement Macpherson strut front and separate coil and shock rear are little of the sort) were bought for their tweakability as I have a long-term plan dream of adding weight under the hood. I also followed the mantra that if it costs the same or less in rip-off Britain than it does in the US then it must be good value.
In the shorter term I have an unquenchable desire to attain some 20” TSW Bathurst wheels in gunmetal. I used to like the black PP wheels we get, but over the best part of a year I have grown bored of them. This is purely based on viewing endless pictures and despite never having seen either in real life!
Hopefully I haven’t introduced myself as some affluent bragger. I am not wealthy at all and the KWs are on tick!
Finally, huge thanks to Gibbo for his immensely informative build thread and to Manders for his invaluable delivery process thread. : )
I really should have done this ages ago, as I’ve been lurking and sucking up information for quite some time. I’m not called lazy for nothing.
My Comp Orange GT should be mid-Atlantic on the freighter Oberon. I placed my order last May I think it was. That didn’t go particularly well as I’d spent quite a bit of effort trying for a discount. But by the time it had sunk in that that wasn’t going to happen, Ford had whacked up the price by a thousand quid. D’oh!
Anyway, I was perfectly pleased with my spec at first (ticked everything bar the “Custom” bits) but as time dragged on I read stuff and gazed at so many pictures and videos that the modding bug bit. It started innocently enough with some rocker (sill) stripes and some 20mm bolt-on wheel spacers – closely followed by some 3mm ones as I hadn’t properly researched the stud length issue. However, since my build was confirmed my condition has worsened, resulting in the following:
Magnaflow “street” cat-back exhaust (I’ll come back to this).
Barton shifter (and this)
KW Variant 3 “coil-overs” (and this too)
GT350 steering wheel
BMR Cradle Bushing Lockout Kit
Plus sundry other bits: the Ford Racing gear knob, Barton reverse lockout billet, a massively overpriced billet gear knob from AM (yes, that’s 2 gear knobs!), FRPP hood struts, LED interior conversion kit.
The Magnaflow is something I should have mentioned here long ago, as I’m not sure anybody else has. I paid just £840, delivered, for it from a UK company on eBay, which is pretty much what is paid in the US. There is now another UK company selling them for £800. I went for the “street” because I wanted something deeper sounding and a little louder than the wheezing stock item but hopefully still able to get through an MOT. The “competition” version is also available in cat-back and axle-back for those that hate their neighbours. I have no affiliation to the sellers, or Magnaflow, but at these prices for a top quality product it just seemed like a no-brainer without some special reason to pay much more for another brand or import an MBRP.
I was none too impressed by the shift action when I drove a demo a while back although this wasn’t unexpected from what I’d read on Mustang6G. I’m as old as the hills and remember when in-line RWD European cars could have a rifle-bolt shift. I chose Barton over MGW because of their video describing the reasoning behind pretty much every tiny component. I’m an engineer and Mr Barton is a man who is so damned, well, OCD fussy I couldn’t refuse. It’s a thing of wonder to actually hold. No ideas how they can turn a profit on these. I just hope it lives up to the promise!
The KW “coil-overs” (which, comprising a replacement Macpherson strut front and separate coil and shock rear are little of the sort) were bought for their tweakability as I have a long-term plan dream of adding weight under the hood. I also followed the mantra that if it costs the same or less in rip-off Britain than it does in the US then it must be good value.
In the shorter term I have an unquenchable desire to attain some 20” TSW Bathurst wheels in gunmetal. I used to like the black PP wheels we get, but over the best part of a year I have grown bored of them. This is purely based on viewing endless pictures and despite never having seen either in real life!
Hopefully I haven’t introduced myself as some affluent bragger. I am not wealthy at all and the KWs are on tick!
Finally, huge thanks to Gibbo for his immensely informative build thread and to Manders for his invaluable delivery process thread. : )
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