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DFB5.0
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What a shame, hopefully its repairable.
Frankly, these cars can be a handful even in stock form. Add a supercharger and ultimate respect is needed.
It funny, my supercharged Miami XR8 is considerably more powerful than my Mustang, and even on the terrible original Dunlop's, its more controllable and predictable on the limit than the twitchy Mustang. I guess the longer wheelbase has something to do with it.
Frankly, these cars can be a handful even in stock form. Add a supercharger and ultimate respect is needed.
It funny, my supercharged Miami XR8 is considerably more powerful than my Mustang, and even on the terrible original Dunlop's, its more controllable and predictable on the limit than the twitchy Mustang. I guess the longer wheelbase has something to do with it.
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I contemplated putting this in the 'what did you do to your Aussie Mustang today' thread 
...and therein lies the problem...but IMHO the Mustang's issues are fairly easy and cheap to fix, particularly the twitchyness to which you refer which gave me serious concerns and was a real disappointment. Swapped in some RLCA bearings and it just went away, and with a couple more gubbins it now handles nicely.
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I should probably explain that I'm not complaining as such, just an interesting difference I have noticed over time between the old Aussie muscle car and its effective "replacement".I contemplated putting this in the 'what did you do to your Aussie Mustang today' thread
...and therein lies the problem...but IMHO the Mustang's issues are fairly easy and cheap to fix, particularly the twitchyness to which you refer which gave me serious concerns and was a real disappointment. Swapped in some RLCA bearings and it just went away, and with a couple more gubbins it now handles nicely.
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Oh and not taken as such, you're spot on. I should probably have explained that I wasn't disagreeing
I can't believe they let the S550 out of the gate like that, it was really disconcerting. And yet the Falcon (and Commodore) on older platforms were IMHO great handling cars for their intended purpose. We built some epic machines in this country once but I digress.
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It's all good, I've been roasted in the past with regard to pointing out "negative" aspects of the Mustang vs Falcon. I don't mean it in a negative way, it's just my analytical brain in action.Oh and not taken as such, you're spot on. I should probably have explained that I wasn't disagreeing
I can't believe they let the S550 out of the gate like that, it was really disconcerting. And yet the Falcon (and Commodore) on older platforms were IMHO great handling cars for their intended purpose. We built some epic machines in this country once but I digress.
And yes, the local chassis engineers were very talented, often working with a fraction of the budget of their parent companies. The Holden's had the edge in the end, but Falcon's weren't exactly off pace when it came to chassis tuning.
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My neighbor had a R-SPEC.
He said he lost it twice.
Not dimentia, but the rear end coming around to say hello.
"They're dangerous" he said.
He said he lost it twice.
Not dimentia, but the rear end coming around to say hello.
"They're dangerous" he said.
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Mustang is a " drivers " car and many people now owning mustangs clearly are not drivers . Most of these well documented mustang crashes are driver error . The Average Mustang GT buyer has never owned a car with these levels of acceleration and direct steering previously coming out of glorified australian built taxis . A car that can do near enough to 12 sec 1/4ers with supercar like grippy tyres needs a bit of skill to WOT on the average slippery suburban road , people are now finding that out . Abilities and ambitions are easily confused .. the learning curve dealing with off throttle oversteer can be expensive .
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5,500km on mine and I still don't have the guts really get up it in a corner and I have 100+hp less than a GT.
Brisvegas
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Holdens last aust built commodore was a decent car and a shame they stopped it there . The Ford was getting a little dated but the last of them was at least an attractive car externally with good performance . Drive review was about as kind as i was . I am a brand agnostic with no patriotic allegiance to any label . I am a car mercenary .Ooi there, I'm very fond of my Australian Built Taxi......................
" Like in the legendary muscle cars of old, the interior is plain and uninspiring. There are no creature comforts, no modern safety technologies, such as blind-spot monitoring or park assist. In fact, if it were not for a new black roof lining, some new faux-carbon fibre accents and an updated 8-inch colour display, it could easily be mistaken for the interior of an old Falcon taxi – a $52,490 (plus on-road costs) Falcon taxi. "
They were good value cars but were heavily subsidized by Taxpayers , at least the Holdens were , not too sure what Ford aust squeezed out of govt . Anyway it was only the last model commodore that could remotely compete with the foriegners feature wise and it was 10 years too late
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