LIGHTNING BLUE S550 MUSTANG Thread

[wmfateam]

I've been wanting these...more info on the scary part please....I would imaging the cutting involved...tips, tricks, etc would be awesome of you. Your front splitter...is that the PP splitter or the Cali Special?

Scary part is cutting into a perfectly good hood with a angle grinder using a cut off wheel. I did it with the hood on the car, so I was having to get in very awkward positions to get a straight line going. My back is a little swore today, lol getting old. In some places I was cutting a little too long and the paint would start to lift up/bubble around where the wheel was cutting. Luckily where the cuts are made, the vents cover it, but still scary to watch it happen as I was cutting. I had the wheel jump a couple times and made very light abrasions to the paint, but still in the vent area. So i touched them up with my touch up stick and you can not see it until you are bent over glaring at it from a couple feet. Tips/tricks, Go slow and don't cut all the way through. The second one I cut I did more of scoring lines and then bent the extra material back and forth until it snapped off. That side is cleaner and the paint stayed in much better shape. I may go back with a dremel to clean up and make the underside hole a little bigger as I had a fun time holding those tiny 6mm nuts under the hood while trying to get the mini screws to line up through both the vent under under vent plate. And use a large over sized tarp or moving blanket on the engine bay. I tried using the hood under blanket and still got some paint flakes in the engine bay.

As for the splitter, that is the stock PP splitter. I think the angle makes it look more aggressive than it really is. I do have a ZL1 Add-on splitter in the garage waiting to go on.

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[italianstallion]

Got the Ford Performance Street Springs installed today. 1 inch drop all around. No rake or anything on these so they're not the most aggressive around.

Keeping everything Ford to maintain the warranty. Car also has a Ford Borla Sport catback, Ford Power Pack 2, 30% tint all around, and I installed the strut tower brace and k-brace as well this past week. Waiting on some spacers for the wheels and I should be satisfied for a week or so.

 

[5.0_SD]

^^^Looking good bro

 

[Trptguy]

^^^ needs black lugs for more power!!!

 

[5.0_SD]

^^^Absolutely. It sucks that Ford, Dodge, and Chevy all use silver/chrome lugs for factory stock wheels...stupid.

 

[cjldad]

The black lugs do set it off.. Where did you guys get yours? I got mine from CJ, but I wasn't super happy with their quality..

 

[5.0_SD]

Mine came with the wheels from LMR

 

[italianstallion]

I’d love to go with black lugnuts but can’t for the next 8 months until I move from my current apartment complex to a place with a garage. People have been getting their wheels stolen in my neighborhood so I’ve got to have wheel locks on each wheel. Once it’s secured in a garage then I’ll be getting those black lugnuts.

 

[5.0_SD]

Right on...understand that...whenever I leave my area to go to O town or down south in Nagare's neck of the woods, both pistols are with me.

 

[italianstallion]

Right on...understand that...whenever I leave my area to go to O town or down south in Nagare's neck of the woods, both pistols are with me.

Yeah I’m not even in a bad area...just an area that criminals know they can prey on. Where are you out of?

 

[Nagare]

You could always get the full set of locking lugs.

And surprisingly, nothing at all has happened to my car so far. I was a little worried about getting the car at first, but the neighborhood has been good. Never had an issue with my bike when I had it either.

 

[5.0_SD]

Yeah I’m not even in a bad area...just an area that criminals know they can prey on. Where are you out of?

Wildwood/Villages area...some bad elements around but not like in the bigger cities.

 

[Dsquared]

Yeah I’m not even in a bad area...just an area that criminals know they can prey on. Where are you out of?

Ok, just to butt in here.. I lived in Orlando for 10 years '98-'08, and had more crime perpetrated against my personal property there than I did 10 years in a sketchy NYC neighborhood and the last 7 years here in NJ, break-ins, bikes stolen, intentional damage to my car, all courtesy of O-town criminals.. that said, life was easy and I do miss that weather this time of year.

 

[italianstallion]

Ok, just to butt in here.. I lived in Orlando for 10 years '98-'08, and had more crime perpetrated against my personal property there than I did 10 years in a sketchy NYC neighborhood and the last 7 years here in NJ, break-ins, bikes stolen, intentional damage to my car, all courtesy of O-town criminals.. that said, life was easy and I do miss that weather this time of year.

Yup it’s a theme across the area...moreso than I’ve heard in other areas. My other car was broken into once (smashed the glass) and there wasn’t even anything inside it to take. I live in a nice area with 1bdr rent of $1,400 but it doesn’t matter...if the criminals have legs they don’t mind walking to the nice areas and seeing what they can score.

 

[Trptguy]

I got mine form AM and not happy. Going to need to get new ones after this winter.

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