Recent content by Guard5.0

You mod you lose. But it’s really fun. I sold a Frankensteined 2015 that I spent more on mods than I did the car new. I did it to make room for a 500 and certainly lost my ass as expected. I’ve only put 300 miles on the 500 but I can tell you it’s a blast to drive and my wife who is not...

I get what you’re saying but in some ways I’m glad it’s the way it is. My panel fit and finish borders on poor. Paint quality is certainly on the lower end of the car spectrum. But that powertrain. I’m glad they did things like 760hp, dual clutch paddle shifted transmission, Magnaride, etc. The...

I was thinking about a two post but would only have 1” of clearance at the ceiling plus the permanent loss of floor space. Wouldn’t be looking forward to wrestling those into place with the lack of clearance. These are rapidly becoming my option due to the mobility and with the 7000 I could do...

Biggest surprise to me is the disparity in price dealer to dealer. Found one at a dealer in Kentucky for $24. Found two more at a small dealership in Indiana for $34/per. I looked at the screen in both places and both were the unit prices in the part system. The Indiana dealer is local to me so...

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Line up where? Drag strip or road course? If I wanted to go drag racing I certainly wouldn’t have bought a Gt500. I would have bought one of the multitudes of production cars that will easily dispatch it. Or if I’m simply a Ford fan I would have spent a little more and bought a Cobra Jet and ran...

GT500’s turf? A drag strip? No. That would be the plaids “turf” where it will basically destroy about everything. GT500’s would rank somewhere in the middle of all performance cars in the 1/4 and are certainly not drag focused. You know what I don’t see? Videos of Teslas at VIR racing GT3’s...

Thought I read somewhere that the Shelby Foundation was raffling off a HE CFTP so there will be at least one. I’ll have to see if I can find it again

I’m with you. We have one vehicle, wife’s 2022 Acura MDX, that barely gets over 20mpg. Everything else in our garages sucks fuel at an alarming rate. When we recently ran out of garage space the car that got sold was the 30+mpg Honda Civic Sport which we used for around town stuff. I don’t...

I can see flipping cars as a hobby or a side hustle for some extra cash but unless you’re a full time auto broker or you found out your grandma has a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO hidden in the barn there are easier ways to make money. I guess there are two schools of thought here. I used careers and the...

3.89 for 93 in Indiana

I would also be curious about the flow characteristics of the K&N if the material feels more coarse or thicker. I’ve used them on other vehicles because they make a good product but I wonder about cold start 50w getting through it and to where it needs to be.

Has anyone had a problem with the stock GT500 shafts either at the drags, autocross, or road course? I put Ford Racing shafts in my 15 GT due to Fords “hollow” weak stockers and because it was an FI car. I figured at stock power levels Ford would have insured that the stock shafts would be ok on...

Traveling this week with the wife for some hiking and thanksgiving. Stopped at several Ford dealers and actually found one today at Bill Cole Ford in Ashland, KY. I think we stopped at 6 total dealerships. At least I have one for the 1,000 mile change

Used the M-1700 brackets. Put all 4 tires up on 4” rubber ramps they had at the dealership. Installed all 4 myself in about 15 minutes. Could have done it without the ramps but it would be a squeeze. Brackets worked great with the longer MAC straps that come with the over the wheel set. Luckily...