Picked up 2018 GT 10AT, some questions

[c-rizzle]

1. PATIENCE.
2. RESEARCH.
3. MORE PATIENCE.
4. THEN BE CONSERVATIVE....

... in doing mods, the more money you spend customizing the car, the more money you will ultimately lose.
The more mods you have the less valuable your car will be in the aftermarket. You can put a $6000+ supercharger in it, and typically get almost no added value out of it, since most people look at it as a possible liability to reliability.

My personal opinion is stick with some basic Ford Performance mods.
- Ford KNOWS what its doing.
- People generally don't mind a mod "if it says Ford", b/c to most people they don't think of it as a "mod".

Examples for Ford:
1. Ford tune - wait a few thousand miles to break in engine & make sure nothing is wrong with the car first.
2. Ford Performance GT350 springs (made for Magneride)
3. GT350 steering wheel. - love the feel of the alcantara wheel. (I'm assuming you can do this swap, I did it on my 2017.)

Don't mess with the exhaust since you have active exhaust.

The one thing that I hear everyone saying makes a big difference is an IRS lock out cradle / tie down, like this:
https://www.americanmuscle.com/bmr-irs-lockoutk-kit-black-1516.html - but no rush on that.

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[Eclipsar]

1. PATIENCE.
2. RESEARCH.
3. MORE PATIENCE.
4. THEN BE CONSERVATIVE....

... in doing mods, the more money you spend customizing the car, the more money you will ultimately lose.
The more mods you have the less valuable your car will be in the aftermarket. You can put a $6000+ supercharger in it, and typically get almost no added value out of it, since most people look at it as a possible liability to reliability.

I have to disagree with the 1st statement, as there is a way round this by removing all mods and selling them to recoup some of there value along with being able to sell the car un modified, obviously you have to keep all the original parts to go back on

 

[greengoblin31]

Don't do stripes, they look ghetto. Low-rent.

lol wow this is the comment of the week!

OP don't touch a thing on your car until the motor is broken in.

 

[zsz1992418]

lol wow this is the comment of the week!

OP don't touch a thing on your car until the motor is broken in.

Kind of what I feel of this post. Any decoration mostly is just a personal taste. You could like or dislike it, and that's it.

 

[PJR202]

How about spring, any comments?

A lot of people replace it with the Steeda. I think it's like a 185lb assist spring stock, and 35lb spring to replace it. I bought the replacement but managed to break guide/frame thingy. They didn't make a replacement guide at that time and even now it's like 70 bucks for a little piece of plastic. I (like many others) just left the spring out. It's way more manageable than it was with the stock spring in there. Some will argue that it's harder on the clutch to not have a spring in place, but I've not seen any evidence of how and I've not seen anyone who pulled their spring experience premature clutch failure. I'm getting close to 50k miles and I think I had mine out before the 5k mark.

 

[MrWolf]

A lot of people replace it with the Steeda. I think it's like a 185lb assist spring stock, and 35lb spring to replace it. I bought the replacement but managed to break guide/frame thingy. They didn't make a replacement guide at that time and even now it's like 70 bucks for a little piece of plastic. I (like many others) just left the spring out. It's way more manageable than it was with the stock spring in there. Some will argue that it's harder on the clutch to not have a spring in place, but I've not seen any evidence of how and I've not seen anyone who pulled their spring experience premature clutch failure. I'm getting close to 50k miles and I think I had mine out before the 5k mark.

As he has an A10, I assume he means lowering springs and not a clutch spring

 

[PJR202]

As he has an A10, I assume he means lowering springs and not a clutch spring

Well that one flew right by me..lol

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