Man those look great on your car!I like the base wheels as well, as you say,that old school look. I bought them for my “ancient” 15 GT PP.
I also have ‘20 GT A10 with 3.15s. If you’re running stock tires that may very well just be the fastest combination! Just enough wheelspin to let the power develop but not so much as to cost you time on a pull. I think the combination of stock tires with the A10‘s torque multiplication might be slower with 3.55s or 3.73s due to wheelspin.Love the look of your car and the color combo is nice. I think it was a good move in that if you like manuals, having a Tremec will probably be trouble-free. And yes, gears definitely make a difference as I have a mere base GT A10 with 3.15 gears and while it's stronger than any Mustang I've had in the past, I can imagine what it would be like with better gears (acceleration anyway). But I do love the great MPG I get with it as most everyone else has less MPG and their cars are slower than mine. Enjoy that Mach 1; I wish I had the coins to have gotten one but perhaps it's best I didn't considering I'll be 70 in a couple of months.
That's funny (70 a pup) but maybe not as I had to wait until I retired before I could buy my car. Anyway, once we move to the mainland, I'll be able to open her up more than on an island. Also love the higher speed limits there so I can make use of the power. I would think that even with the higher gear ratios it would be better since the traction control would limit the wheel spin anyway. And yes, my car is bone stock model with only the safety package as an option which I love as I don't have to keep canceling cruise control when I get close to a car in front. I'm hoping to be able to handle the car for another 15-20 years before physical limitations set in.
When you change the drive mode from Normal to Track or any of the others it changes the Magneride programming as well as the engine(throttle) response and in the automatics the shifting as well I beleive. That's how I understand it works. Normal would be for a more comfortable ride where Track will stiffen up some. So Magneride is always on. Be nice if you could select engine and suspension modes separately.
I'd like to contest this suggestion that a a10 3.55 is slower based on the major reviewers have found the a10 pp1 cars (3.55 stock) are the only ones that break into the 3.9-4.1 range for 0-60 whereas the base a10 GT's (3.15 stock) clock around 4.5-4.6 for 0-60. The tricky part is what portion of that performance gain is from the tire compound and what is from the gear, but any traction issues that those cars had are not costing it performance compared to a non-pp1 in a timed setting. Not entirely sure if that's tested on a prepped surface but i'm thinking no as that would be pretty unfair and also I was able to replicate within .1 or .2 of their 0-60 a10 non perf pack time.
You raise a good and valid point.
It's on my mind a lot because i'm leaning towards buying the ford performance 3.55 non torsen rear diff and expecting more oomph out of my car. I test drove an auto mach 1 but didn't have a chance to make heads or tales if I can feel any increased performance. The clueless salesman in the passenger seat was taking my attention away.
