I bought my 6901s from Jet-Hot with, you guessed it, Jet-Hot coating. They give a lifetime warranty on the coating.
These cars shouldnt run a 13 anything with the combo you have listed. There to light. I know my car with the e7 headed 308 i had in it years ago would run way better. In street trim.
Hottrod1991 I think you are focusing on HP numbers too much. They do play a role, but I've taken a z06 corvette in my maverick with a stock 302 in the 1/8th mile because the driver was asleep at the light and spun through the traps. Of course this was an 1/8th mile... any further, he would've rolled past me even with all his mistakes. How much money can you invest? How long before you race? where will you race? track i hope...but you see where im going. If you're just gonna race at the track then get yourself a 3rd member to drop in your rear with 3.50 or 3.70 gears posi preferably or locker. Get some sticky tires and a "safe" shot of Nitrous for your engine config and enjoy lol 300 isnt that much HP for heavier cars like the retro stangs. They're fun...... until you ride in something like a miata with a 302 and only 260hp and it stomps it horribly
Yea, exactly. Everyone thinks his car is quicker in the 1/4 until they actually run it. Both mine would do better if run with slicks and lower rear gears (actually only true for the Comet) The 06 suffered tremendously from wheel hop due to the tire compound of the P-Zero's, which is why we ran it with the traction control engaged. The Comet just plain melts the Cooper Cobra's thru 1st gear.
It was a manual trans. I probably could have done better with more time, but the local strip is an hour away and the only time to run was friday nites and it was packed everytime I went. 4-5 hours after the drive there and you got 3-4 runs tops. I got disgusted with it all and refuse to drive all that way for what you get. Besides, I get more pleasure out of running the back roads at night, hammer down.
bring me the car and 8 grand and you will dust the mustang, if you can keep it strait and it doesnt crack a windshield because of flex, and you can afford the fuel needed to run it, and slicks,and better brakes any car can be a land rocket but she needs to stop just as well.also money you will need for the coupons the local pd will give you, race on a track, street racing is just not cool at all. burnouts= cool, street racing= not cool. my opinion, and i could be waaaaaay wrong my opinion is if you want to chance your life on a strip( which i do ) thats fine. but you do not have permission from the soccer mom and her family that gets killed when you t-bone her because she has the right away to cross the intersection. yes i have street raced many many times with out given a second thought no plates no insurance buzzing from drinking at all hours just being a damn fool in a real fast ride!!!!! as i said ONLY my 02 cents and i could be wrong! whitey
more food for thought! The head rebuilder at the local speed machine shop has the old school build for killing cars. For under 1k of mods its a scary sight! The simple build for win! car 70 stang fastback 4:90ish rear gears 3" straight exhaust dump before rear axle Drag radials engine 351c stock except for 4v (close chambered) still using multi groove valves Dominator intake Exhaust headers fat solid lifter cam Oil restricter mod C4 I think... maybe C6 He revs the hell out this thing in the staging, people that know the engine entered it in a deadpool wager. Crazy bastard goes 7k plus all day on the multigroove valves. People run for the blast wall when the car pulls into the staging area. Anyway the engine never died and pushes the stang to 11:80 all day. yes its streetable, he drives the beast between home, gas stations and the track.
I always love these threads. Something I have learned in the past 45 years is that there is always someone that has more money, more ingenuity, and more HP than you, and trying to chase them is just a waste of money......IMHO My 97 Mustang Cobra had the following mods; FMS shorty headers Bassanni cat back w/stock mufflers Steeda upper/lower control arms w/panhard bar 3:73 gears Gutted air intake box/my own mods to the MAF Short throw shifter It ran 282hp to the rear wheels and did 148mph in 4th running in the Silver States Classic. It ran 12.98 in the quarter @ 104. Now this 4.6 started life as a 305hp DOHC motor. Also realize that the new Mustang GT has 400+HP and even the six cylinder has 300hp..................this is a never ending project and there is always going to be someone with more $$$$$$ and a faster car on the street. If you want to outrun newer Mustangs you need to put a second loan on the house.........................or just enjoy your Maverick and go out and by a stock 400+hp new Mustang GT...............or a 300hp six cylinder......or go out and build a sleeper Maverick that looks like it just escaped the junk yard and stuff a 1000hp drive train in it! IMHO
I beat one, and gave him a 1 second head start on a 1/8 mile track. Stock block, 8.0:1 compression, with an Edelbrock Performer Plus cam (mild), GT40P heads, and sidepipe exhaust. Mini spool on 3.80 gear. It didn't take much. The low weight of our mavs makes them "seem" to have more HP than they really do. I probably only had 200-ish HP, but still smoked him. Kinda pi$$ed him off, too.
You have one impression combination! My wife's stock '05 GT runs approx 8.5ish second 1/8 mile and my (11.50 1/4 mile) Maverick runs a 7.3 second 1/9 mile. If you gave the Mustang a one second handicap and still smoked him, your Maverick is running about the same as mine. Or the Mustang guy needs to take it back to the dealership for some warranty work.
That was on my old engine before I smoked it and put in the 5.0. It was fine, but I wouldn't call it "quick", but it did fine against that mustang. New engine would smoke them and leave them wondering what the hell just happened. The roller cammed 5.0 has WAY more power than that mustang ever wished to have. I went from approx 200 hp to 330 hp (I dynoed it to get the 330 number, seat of pant and estimating for the 200 number).
