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What is the wheel weight for the SV107s? The bronze looks good on your car - thinking it would look killer on my Ruby...

Gas and Go Thanks! Good to know with the passage of some years, the 'ol butt=o=meter is still in working order.. So, with the rocket juice, figuring I am running about 565 h/p and 468 torque at the crank - car definitely is more up on its toes. With power goals met, time to put this child...

Oil Usage Question. Did my first oil change at dealership with 1100 miles on the odo. Everything looked good, Blackstone analysis was very good. Picked up the car new with 37 miles on it and needed to add a quart before first oil change even though I did a slow, stepwise break-in for the...

Why? E85 is 50 times more hydroscopic than gas. I live in Florida, gets kinda hot and humid here several months a year, even in North Florida. Sometimes the toy does not get driven a lot. Adds up to = not worth the potential problems when a tank of 100 octane does quite nicely for the...

Actually, there is no evidence either way, that I have seen. But after doing this with all my cars, including the 9 toys before this one, I have NEVER had an oil consumption problem-even the cars I tracked had small additional over normal oil consumption. So, I stick with what works for me -...

Best Tune? Not surprised to see so many responses and sources for "best tune." And I am sure all the tuners and known "canned tunes" are just fine. But I wanted something else. I wanted to be part of the process where I could personally watch an extremely highly regarded tuner work his...

Lithium Pros recommended their L3420 battery for our cars. I believe the stock Ford battery is 31 lbs? The L3420 weighs 9.5 lbs and according to the person I spoke to at Lithium Pros, is fully compatible with our alternators and has been used successfully on street cars for some time. Since...

The C&D long term tests are indeed 40k miles. They report in periodically, as I referenced their latest update in the April issue. This is the first time they mentioned the car's oil consumption. And yes, I agree that 5 quarts in 3000 miles is a lot. What we do not know of course, is how...

Corral I was one of about 6 cars in the Daytona 24 Mustang corral. One of the cars there was a Grabber Blue GT. It was fun running Friday night laps with Ford Performance on the full 3.5 mile track. Yes, the Chevy and Porsche corrals were magnitudes larger. I think that had to do with a...

Maybe Well, maybe.. You know that C&D ran this car very hard, especially in the beginning of their time with it. Seems curious that they are only just now reporting that over the preceding 3000 miles after logging 20k miles, the car is burning about one quart every 600 miles. Maybe one of...

OP Says "Thanks!" When I started this thread I had a lot of questions. As I said earlier, I put headers on many cars, but this was the first toy I had severe misgivings about adding headers to. With over 2000 views and dozens of responses it seems like very few people have put headers on...

C&D Shelby I broke mine in "gently" with all the aspects of accel and decell and no problems yet - but of course I only have 2200 miles as of now. Seems C&D oil usage spiked after 20k miles.

April issue of C&D has latest update of their long term GT350. Good news is they still love the performance and handling after 23,200 miles. Bad news - they say they are getting tired of having to fill-up and check the oil every 250 miles. They say the car has used 5 quarts of oil in the last...

Saw The Show On Velocity OK, got up this AM and saw the show on Velocity at 7:30. Frankly, was not too impressed - I would give it a "C+" grade. Why? Well for one thing, it seemed like 10 of the 30 minutes were taken up by obnoxious commercials - time allotted to commercials seemed excessive...

Nice Pic! Kinda like that color too! :clap2:

If I wanted to go the blower route, I would have bought a GT, and with the money saved, put a blower on it. I have been to this party before and I have a supercharged SQ5 - great for what it is. But to take one of the most, if not the most highly evolved V8 ever put into any Mustang - or for...

Now that is interesting because I have been told otherwise. Hmmm. another line of research. Although at this point, I am getting more inclined to wait to hear more feedback from those who have actually done this mod -before making a final decision. At this time, I am beginning to think that...

I pretty much agree with you. When I started looking last summer, the few Rs I found were at least 8k ADM. I was living in the DC area then - Northern Va., but I looked far afield. I could have probably rationalized paying 6-8k ADM, but in my case, other factors made the whole R deal too...

Ditto. First Ford, First Shelby... Had nine Vettes before including 2 ZR1's and 4 Z06's. Current stable: 2017 Shelby GT350, 2016 Audi SQ5, 216 Mazda CX3 (wife's car). Big world out there - enjoy!

Sorry, my wife is not included as an "equipment group package!" ;) The phone picture really does not do either of them justice. Gotta get off of it and find some of the Nikon pics of the car. BTW, I am told that Ruby was the second rarest color in '17 after Triple Yellow. Less than 100...