Joined the Whipple Club, Any Advice For a First Timer?

[96gt4.6]

I had bad wheelhop on my stock 2018 until I put on some DRs. That was the cure. I also have a GT350 shaft on the driver's side. That is a good inexpensive upgrade unless you go crazy and create a low 10 or a 9 second car. That would require a more significant upgrade.

Agreed, an actual set of tires for the strip would take care of the issue no doubt.

My biggest issue is with this build I refuse to run two sets of tires....I enjoy taking the car to the strip and not doing anything but backing it out of the garage. However, I also know that doing so means I leave E/T on the table with the inability to exploit the 60' capability of the setup. I could go with a softer compound like the NT05R's, but I also refuse to give up tread wear life being as the car does see a few trips here and there.

Ultimately, this car will never live up to it's full potential solely because of this reason.

I appreciate your help on the CV shaft brucelinc! We had discussed this option back on the other thread for that, and indeed it is a great budget friendly upgrade!

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[DavidHuff]

Agreed, an actual set of tires for the strip would take care of the issue no doubt.

My biggest issue is with this build I refuse to run two sets of tires....I enjoy taking the car to the strip and not doing anything but backing it out of the garage. However, I also know that doing so means I leave E/T on the table with the inability to exploit the 60' capability of the setup. I could go with a softer compound like the NT05R's, but I also refuse to give up tread wear life being as the car does see a few trips here and there.

Ultimately, this car will never live up to it's full potential solely because of this reason.

I appreciate your help on the CV shaft brucelinc! We had discussed this option back on the other thread for that, and indeed it is a great budget friendly upgrade!

Congrats on your times, but I think you have reached your limits on street tires..

 

[96gt4.6]

Original post updated with 1 year ownership review.

 

[96gt4.6]

Over a year now and still loving this setup.

The NT05's (not R's) are really a good tire. Drive it year round, take it to the track, take it home and repeat. They seem to be wearing at a very reasonable rate given I have over 20 dragstrip passes on them, still have plenty of tread over a year and 6k miles later.

The car could go 1.6x if I could leave from anything but off idle, but two footing it at the tree produced massive wheelspin, just too much TQ to for these non competition/track tires to put down.

Car still has the cats/entirely stock and running the supplied Whipple tune.

Love it.



Hoping we get a race day with under 3k ft corrected D/A. Once in a while we get down to 12-1500 ft, which might put this setup into the 11.0 range (see signature). I would be beyond pleased with that.

 

[808muscle]

Good fun dude. Really good 60 ft with those tires. I couldn't get my 555Rs to stick. Only got 2 passes best was 11.74@128. Then covid shut our track down and its still not open. I'm running the whipple tune as well.

 

[stang17]

Over a year now and still loving this setup.

The NT05's (not R's) are really a good tire. Drive it year round, take it to the track, take it home and repeat. They seem to be wearing at a very reasonable rate given I have over 20 dragstrip passes on them, still have plenty of tread over a year and 6k miles later.

The car could go 1.6x if I could leave from anything but off idle, but two footing it at the tree produced massive wheelspin, just too much TQ to for these non competition/track tires to put down.

Car still has the cats/entirely stock and running the supplied Whipple tune.

Love it.



Hoping we get a race day with under 3k ft corrected D/A. Once in a while we get down to 12-1500 ft, which might put this setup into the 11.0 range (see signature). I would be beyond pleased with that.

Have you tried using the whipple guardian features to lower power in 1st/2nd gear to help hook? With 25% out of 1st gear and 15% out of 2nd I was able to manage a 1.61 60ft on a pair of 275 width General G-Max AS-05 all season tires mounted to the stock 19 performance pack rims. 20 psi in the rear and 40 psi up front. This was with advancetrac turned off and slipping the clutch from a 4,000 rpm launch.

 

[96gt4.6]

Have you tried using the whipple guardian features to lower power in 1st/2nd gear to help hook? With 25% out of 1st gear and 15% out of 2nd I was able to manage a 1.61 60ft on a pair of 275 width General G-Max AS-05 all season tires mounted to the stock 19 performance pack rims. 20 psi in the rear and 40 psi up front. This was with advancetrac turned off and slipping the clutch from a 4,000 rpm launch.

I have, however it seems to affect the overall performance of the car more as it pulls power the entire gear, where I can use full power shortly after the launch.

I was able to get a new PB last time out, got into the 1.6's and low 11's. I think in fall air it has 10's, as this was in 3500 ft corrected D/A as well.

I also acquired a set of Mickey Thompson E/T Street's to mount up in the same size as the Nitto's, perhaps I can leave on some RPM now and not just roll the throttle from an idle, we shall see!

 

[96gt4.6]

Updated 1st post

 

[96gt4.6]

New PB!

Went to a set of Mickey Thompson E/T Street's in a 305/35/19, picked up a little bit on the 60'. Was able to stall into the 1500 range, still has some spin any higher but without going to a drag pack or more of a bubble out back I think that's all she has.

I'm very pleased for just the bolt on stage 1 kit, all stock otherwise at this point.

 

[96gt4.6]

Officially in the 10's!

Swapped out the rear's for a set of VMS wheels and M/T E/T Street R's. That did the trick. Am able to foot brake around 2200 rpm now, joined the 1.5 60' club as well.

Car has been solid for almost 3 years now. Did 1700 miles alone this year on Rocky Mountain Race Week 1.0, plus hundreds of dragstrip passes. Stock weight (4150lbs with me in the driver seat). Whipple stage 1, GEN3 2.9L kit (stock TB). Whipple tune, track only cat delete pipes, Boundary OPG's and C/S. Stock exhaust and car is all stock otherwise.

Thank you for the great product Ford and Whipple, car has been by far the most fun and reliable one for this E/T. Solid setup that you can jump in and take anywhere.

 

[96gt4.6]

Quick little update.

4 years with this Whipple kit, 2 Rocky Mountain Race Week Events, hundreds of passes on the street/test and tune nights combined and several daily driver out of town trips now.

All on 91 Octane/Boostane at the strip. 20k miles of smiles, still on the Whipple tune.

No issues. Everything is still going strong, no leaks, no concerns whatsoever.

Thanks Whipple for a great product. I have my eyes on the latest generation of Mustang with a Whipple kit, we'll see in a year or two depending on how the numbers look on those.

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