Mach 1 S550 Mustang First Video

[Consola Performance]

Mach1

I believe it's the other way - PBR brakes, Brembo rotors

You're correct about the brakes. Same as the Cobra and Bullit. I've had or have all of models mentioned. I specialize in Mustangs have been in the business from service to corporate and have spent time with Scott. I can't tell the future but I do have knowledge.:ford:

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[S550Boss]

The splitter isn't production - it wouldn't survive a crash test. And the recent California Special uses a bigger splitter anyway.
The decklid is production.

 

[69mach1-395]

Personally I'd like to see stuff like the CS spoiler available standalone, but it's not even available aftermarket it seems. I could definitely live with the one in the pics though.

CS aftermarket spoiler...
http://www.mustang6g.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39210

 

[jman3350]

CS aftermarket spoiler...
http://www.mustang6g.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39210

Thanks! I had been searching in the few main aftermarket part sites, didn't dig too much into it as I don't own an S550 yet

 

[Topnotch]

props to the OP

I want THAT spoiler. Like the Roush attached to the lip but doesn't stick out so much

If you look back to some spy shots of the GT350 at Nurburgring you'll see the same spoiler

 

[4 ROUSH]

:ford:The Boss extension on the front, to me its still no confirmation of MACH 1. Mule for testing , could be anything .

 

[Concrete GT]

Its a GT500 mule!

That's a good point and will probably be my next car when they roll them out again,(supposedly 2018?)...Maybe the deeper sounding exhaust is coming from the 5.8 block.

 

[LETHAL]

Just a 2017 PP test mule. LOL

 

[falcongtho3]

That's a good point and will probably be my next car when they roll them out again,(supposedly 2018?)...Maybe the deeper sounding exhaust is coming from the 5.8 block.

5.8 won't fit the new car. And production has long since ceased.

 

[S550Boss]

5.8 won't fit the new car.

That's FUD that was spread during rollout to explain away the lack of the "Trinity" 5.8 engine. And it's not true: the S550 engine compartment is all but the same as the S197 because it's just an evolution of the S197. Frame rails same, distance between them same, shock towers almost identical. A couple of components moved around that are not a problem. The only concern is the height of the 5.8, just as it was in the S197 - and the simple answer there was adjusting the height of the hood.
Which in the car being shown has not been done.
Ask yourselves what is likely, not what is possible and not what is dreaming. The 5.8 would make this car cost as much as the GT500 and that's not the mission of the Mach. And it's an out-dated engine - it doesn't even have variable cam timing, the stroke is too long, it has the "old" heads. etc.. And it's production equipment has been dismantled. Sure, it could all come back - but at what cost? Do you want a >70k Mach 1?

 

[Kevin08]

That looks a lot more like a Boss mule than a Mach 1 mule, Mach 1s don't have those "Look at me, I'm a race car!" splitters.

 

[EXP Jawa]

That looks a lot more like a Boss mule than a Mach 1 mule, Mach 1s don't have those "Look at me, I'm a race car!" splitters.

OTOH, the Mach1 was one of the first Mustangs to originally wear a chin spoiler. And the SN95 Mach1 also had a chin spoiler extension on the valance, so a splitter is just a further extension of that...

 

[falcongtho3]

The only concern is the height of the 5.8, just as it was in the S197 - and the simple answer there was adjusting the height of the hood.

And that's why it doesn't work in the S550, it's a world design car that has to meet euro regulations for pedestrian impact.

 

[S550Boss]

No, the hood would just be shaped higher. There's plenty of room for that, and there are plenty of cars with superchargers of this same type as an example (including Ford's own kit for the 5.0) of an easy fitment. Most of the impact is in the front maybe quarter of the hood, and the room needed for the Trinity is roughly at the back half, away from the impact area. All the work that went into modifying the S197 design for S550 is in the front of the hood area anyway, especially in the front radiator support.
The entire story about the 5.8 not fitting is wrong. Ford engineers themselves have said so, and the entire story is just there because the 5.8 went out of production. Find a GT500 parked next to an S550 sometime and take some measurements, as I did. Somebody will build one of these someday soon and demonstrate this. Of course it will have to be someplace without strict emissions testing as the engine won't pass the required 2015+ standards.
And if the 5.8 was resuscitated somehow as an option, it would require some different intake tubing and the entire filter housing is different.
Also consider why Ford ended 5.8 production... perhaps displacement isn't their answer to performance anymore. Or perhaps the next supercharged V-8 will be a 5 liter after all (Ford of Australia has been doing this already, although their tune is very very mild). In any case it would go into the same place with the same clearance as it did in the S197 because the hard points for this car are all S197 anyway.

 

[IGJoe2192]

pleeeeeeeeease be a 5.2L CPC N/A Monster!

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