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I also did my whole car for the same reasons. The quarter panels and roof line are targets for rocks over time though much less than the front, but that's at least a 5-7k job.

Ceramic coating will do nothing against rock chips - its sort of like adding more clear coat, except that it wears off after a few years but does make things easier to clean, and helps prevent scratches of the actual paint surface due to its hardness. I would not invest 1000 bucks into ceramic...

Oh its not an argumentative statement. I just figured that wanting leather and comfort options generally imply wanting more of a luxury car which I totally get. My personal opinion is that neither car is much of a luxury car to begin with and all those features keep adding cost and weight...

HAH see all of these things I consider a downgrade. Car is too heavy already and doesn't need more motors and gears. They are too slow too, manual is faster for all of it. I vote that neither the GT350 or 500 is a luxury car. They are luxuries, but not luxury cars. Take 600lbs out of the GT500 -...

Check my profile picture. Very few cars configured this way, but IMO, the best for the bright colors as it balances out the blob of color and adds a lot more visual interest.

Personally I think it sits more in the "splitting maul" section of the hardware store than an outright sledgehammer...maybe even the axe section.

True, though I think you will find many who argue that point as splitting hairs - but the context of the post was a hypothetical upgraded engine. The 5.2 engine (not talking DCT but the actual engine) is exactly that. An upgraded 5.2 with the lessons learned from the GT350 to make it more...

See: GT500 5.2L

I have no experience with tuning, or adding FI to a car that did not have it. So I'll refrain from more technical comments. I'm assuming you get best performance on 93, good temps and all the usual. You're going to be more traction limited than you already were, on a heavy car that requires a...

Ah, that's me ad-libbing "maximum velocity" into an engineering-style variable nomenclature. Its 184 according to the speedo :D

Yeah I figured this was probably where the disagreement arose. Not sure how how much you paid for your Mach 1, but dealers around here were selling them for about 63k fully loaded in 2021. So 12k more would put you about 19k below the VIR spec GT500 CFTP. If you bought used of course then, its...

Same here, having pushed the GT500 with track pack to its traction limits through corners many times, and having had the car at its Vmax, I'm just saying that an FI GT is a LONG way from replicating that. The differences, IMVHO, are larger than they appear on paper. I would agree however, that...

Oh agree with you and made the same argument when it came out. My comment was about the SC/GT500 compared to an FI GT.

Not to be snide or anything but that's more or less my point. Its not similar performance nor are the differences subtle. If you qualify the whole thing as "drag performance only" then yes, we are closer in agreement.

I know this has been said before many times, and in many ways but even being absurdly more expensive than a GT500, the SC is still a lot more than a coyote with FI. As Porsche has proven for years, its not all about power.

Someone appears to have had this made. Would really like to know who did the bumper covers and quarters....and the weights. Found it over on the FordGt500.com forums. https://www.dupontregistry.com/autos/listing/2022/ford/mustang--shelby--gt500/569576 Personally I think it looks a bit...

The car Ford needs to make, is the Toyota GR GT but with a soul. A supercharger, and a better exhaust so it does not ruin the sound. Its an aluminum body, transaxle, SLA front, and is a low slung, GT street car derived from the their GT3 racer with lots of power and torque and weighs in at 3800...

You didn't see the red seats?

A lot of people knock the G2s because they get them mixed up with the Nitto NT555 R2s (drag radial) and then complain about grip after buying the wrong tire. The G2 is not the PS4S, but its not THAT bad. A good middle ground.

I mean...its not THAT hard to believe right? Just a basic 300 dollar CAI is worth nearly 40 wheel HP on the GT500 as is. I think the biggest delta will really just be the Cup 2 Rs in a track setting.