Chief_Cleef
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So, first post. Hi, I'm Nick. I love mustangs.
I have a stock manual 2015 GT Premium. I've had it since 2017, when I bought it with 24k miles and just recently I passed the 50k mark. I traded in my 2016 GT350 for my current car to ditch the car payment.
My father-in-law's new dual motor Model Y makes my car feel slow. Too slow.
but at this point, I think I've realized that instead of trading it in for a new car payment I would rather start pouring some mods into it. I've been thinking about doing the simple things for years like CAI and a tune, but never pulled the trigger. The idea of a supercharged mustang has always been a dream of mine and Whipple has my interest. I've been reading up on the pros and cons of the different kits, but coming from the GT350 I think it would also be pretty fun to take my time with it and go "full bolt on" before going straight to the supercharged route. There is something uniquely fun getting the 5.2 over 7k rpm's. I'd like to know what it would take to get the redline to 7800+ in the GT.
I've seen plenty of threads talking about the cost vs power of the N/A route vs FI and haven't found much about the people who did both. I'm mechanically interested, but have no real hands on experience outside of installing an exhaust kit on my first mustang (back in 2012, '04 6 cylinder). Is this something that people even do?
My goals with the build are still very vague and more focused on trying to do it "right" as opposed to aiming for a horsepower number, so I'm really looking for people's personal experience and input on their early s550 shoulda/coulda/woulda's.
I like the idea of doing both, but don't know what considerations should go into it. What do you think?
Just some thoughts I'm going to add after the post:
- Is weight reduction something worth looking into? Really don't need a back seat, sounds unique. What about exhaust or resonator deletes?
I have a stock manual 2015 GT Premium. I've had it since 2017, when I bought it with 24k miles and just recently I passed the 50k mark. I traded in my 2016 GT350 for my current car to ditch the car payment.
My father-in-law's new dual motor Model Y makes my car feel slow. Too slow.
but at this point, I think I've realized that instead of trading it in for a new car payment I would rather start pouring some mods into it. I've been thinking about doing the simple things for years like CAI and a tune, but never pulled the trigger. The idea of a supercharged mustang has always been a dream of mine and Whipple has my interest. I've been reading up on the pros and cons of the different kits, but coming from the GT350 I think it would also be pretty fun to take my time with it and go "full bolt on" before going straight to the supercharged route. There is something uniquely fun getting the 5.2 over 7k rpm's. I'd like to know what it would take to get the redline to 7800+ in the GT.
I've seen plenty of threads talking about the cost vs power of the N/A route vs FI and haven't found much about the people who did both. I'm mechanically interested, but have no real hands on experience outside of installing an exhaust kit on my first mustang (back in 2012, '04 6 cylinder). Is this something that people even do?
My goals with the build are still very vague and more focused on trying to do it "right" as opposed to aiming for a horsepower number, so I'm really looking for people's personal experience and input on their early s550 shoulda/coulda/woulda's.
I like the idea of doing both, but don't know what considerations should go into it. What do you think?
Just some thoughts I'm going to add after the post:
- Is weight reduction something worth looking into? Really don't need a back seat, sounds unique. What about exhaust or resonator deletes?
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