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Set It Straight Restore your S550’s front-end geometry with J&M Products caster/camber plates By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of J&M Products For as long has we have loved Mustangs, the first thing we wanted to do once we owned the next one was to bring to closer to terra firma. Since...

Matched Threat Adding a Whipple supercharger to SVTP’s Project Triple Threat By Steve Turner Photos by Stacy Stangz As you know, SVTP has a robust stable of project cars ranging from our feisty Fiesta ST, Project Smallz to our corner-carving EcoBoost Mustang, Project Samhain. However, the...

GT350 Growl Lethal Performance upgrades its Shelby with a Magnaflow cat-back and more By Steve Turner Photos by Steve Turner and courtesy of Magnaflow Born with an dual-mode exhaust from the factory, the Shelby GT350 is already one of the best sounding Mustangs ever built. That’s especially...

Picking Up Power ID Motorsports tests Mustang intake manifolds on a 5.0-liter F-150 pickup By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Ford Motor Company and ID Motorsports Of late we’ve been covering a lot of tests involving intake manifolds that fit the Coyote family of engines in Mustangs. From...

Tighten Your Belt Maintain big boost without belt slip thanks to VMP’s billet GT500 tensioner By Steve Turner Owners of 2007-2014 Shelby GT500s know how easy it is to build power with these cars. Just add a smaller blower pulley, open up the inlet, add a custom calibration and the gains are...

Boss Boost Jamie Linkenholker turned to JPC Racing for a turbocharged RoadRunner By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of JPC Racing Lately we’ve seen lot’s of feedback from people that believe it’s a little nutty to modify a road course-oriented Mustang like the new Shelby GT350. However, one...

Heavy Duty Installing McLeod’s RXT1200 clutch in an 800-plus-horsepower GT500 By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of VMP Performance The Shelby GT500 presents a daunting challenge for a clutch. These are heavy cars that produce tons of torque. When you bolt on a set of sticky tires, raise the rpm...

Fresh Air Installing Steeda’s cold air intake wakes up the EcoBoost Mustang By Steve Turner Photos by Steve Turner and courtesy of Steeda Autosports Since there were internal combustion engines, there have been hot rodders trying to increase their output. Over the years, engines have...

Super Sleeper VMP Performance boosts and tunes a new Ford F-150 with great results By Steve Turner Photos by Steve Turner and courtesy of VMP Performance During the NMRA season opener in Bradenton, Florida, the event announcers were blown away as VMP Performance’s Brad Marsh piloted the...

Stretch Run Opening up a GT350 exhaust with ARH long-tube headers yields big gains By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of American Racing Headers and Dillon Dollar From the jump we wondered how a free-flowing exhaust might wake up the performance of the highly tuned 5.2-liter engine that...

Go with the Flow What makes the GT350 intake so good and how it can be better By Steve Turner Photos by Steve Turner and courtesy of Ford Performance Over the last couple of months we have seen some interesting test results involving the Shelby GT350’s intake manifold. Not only did this...

Gearing Down Lethal Performance seeks lower e.t.’s with a Super 8.8 gear swap By Steve Turner Photos by Steve Turner and courtesy of Ford Performance Parts Back in the old days, one of the first Fox Mustang mods was a gear swap. Moving to a numerically higher gear ration would help these cars...

Little Fighter ProCharger turns the latest six-cylinder Mustang into a real performer By Steve Turner Photos by Erik Radzins/ProCharger We live in wonderful times. The Ford world is brimming with performance options from the sharp Fiesta ST to the superstar Ford GT. In the world of...

I just bought an 03 cobra and it's gonna need some work to get it up to the standards I want it at. No major performance work needed but theres alot of unwanted noises from different areas that I need advice on. I live in northern GA and need a tech that knows alot about these cars so I'm not...

Ok so this last weekend my motor detonated. Hard. It created a pin size hole in my radiator and shot a small amount of oil out of my breather. I have no clue what caused this to happen. My AFR read between 10.6 and 11. Engine temp was completely normal. Boost was sitting at the 0 psi mark. And i...