Thinking about next mods.

[Mattstang04]

If you had say 600 of 700 bucks to throw at you car where would you put it. I don't have a good cat back yet. Don't have an aluminum driveshaft. Don't have those nice bilstein shocks and struts either. Sure like the sound of some thumpy mild to moderate cams but I ain't got that kinda cash. I don't really want to supercharger without building the bottom end. Ain't got the kinda cash for sure...right now.

What's on your lists of mods to buy? Maybe your list can inspire me toward one mod or another.

I've already got longtubes, 4.30s, mgw shifter, springs, drop in filter, mm lcas, sway bars, and rovos pretorias.

 

[Recon]

Mufflers.


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[my04mach]

Well, for me gears, but you're set lol. What about front and rear sway bars? How is the rest of the front suspension? Maybe ball joints, steering bushings, all that biz, to tighten up everything?


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[4a7191a]

Cheap catback and aluminum driveshaft while there , maybe have some change left over for an intake plenum spacer too

 

[Mattstang04]

Hear you on the mufflers. The sway bars are Americanmuscle.com SR brand. Pretty big compared to stock stuff. The car is low mileage, under 30k miles, and the front end is tight. Even put poly bushings in the steering track. A mod i wouldn't recommend spending money on but I already had the bushings. Plus I've replaced the ball joints already. She's mechanically sound.

 

[StalkerStang]

Not 100% the cost, but a ported short runner.....

 

[Mattstang04]

How well does the short runner play with a basically stock car? That's a possibility.

 

[Andrew03Mach]

I plan to order new shocks/struts and rear lower control arms in the next week.

The prior owner welded in flowmasters to the stock catback. I don't care for the hack job they did, so I am also thinking of buying full catback and doing it right. Right now, the Mac Catback is my preferred choice...

I already have gears/tune/shifter/springs/drag radials/mid pipe

 

[StalkerStang]

How well does the short runner play with a basically stock car? That's a possibility.

I don't have any real experience on it, but my understanding is it depends on how much you shorten them. The shorter the runners, the farther it will move the power band up. So if you don't have the compression and head capabilities to breathe up there, it's gonna be sluggish. I know Todd on the corral, nasvt, does them. I would ask him.

 

[Mattstang04]

So I decided to complete the pipes. Lethalperformance.com had a great sale on magnaflow. Got a magnapacks catback coming. Going to give the car a proper full sound. Still got other stuff I'll get to in the future.

 

[Mattstang04]

Couldn't help myself. Went ahead and got the aluminum driveshaft too. I liked the thing on a previous car even if it doesn't do much. It will have a psychological effect that makes me think the car is faster because of it. Easy install while I'm doing the exhaust too.

 

[Stang Lover]

I would get some mufflers or some nice viking shocks

 

[Mattstang04]

So I decided to complete the pipes. Lethalperformance.com had a great sale on magnaflow. Got a magnapacks catback coming. Going to give the car a proper full sound. Still got other stuff I'll get to in the future.

Probably leaning more towards bilstein when I do the shocks and struts. The car sees street duty on nice days. Think them vikings are more strip oriented.

 

[Olivas]

Got a ported stock runner length intake sitting in the garage for sale if you're looking for parts.

 

[Mattstang04]

Hmm. Maybe. Did you by chance run it on NA car with stock cams? How did it affect the performance?

 

[Olivas]

Never got to run it myself, sold the car before doing my own NA build up. I had some of the 96/98 cobra cams as well, but they're gone already. So have the intake and couple other items sitting around in the garage still. Word always was the intake was worth 15-20rwhp by itself. I picked it up from another member over at the Mach 1 Registry. You can check out my FS threads -

https://www.svtperformance.com/forums/threads/cobra-mach-1-parts-for-sale.1137080/
http://www.mach1registry.org/forums/showthread.php?t=135851

 

[Mattstang04]

Never got to run it myself, sold the car before doing my own NA build up. I had some of the 96/98 cobra cams as well, but they're gone already. So have the intake and couple other items sitting around in the garage still. Word always was the intake was worth 15-20rwhp by itself. I picked it up from another member over at the Mach 1 Registry. You can check out my FS threads -

https://www.svtperformance.com/forums/threads/cobra-mach-1-parts-for-sale.1137080/
http://www.mach1registry.org/forums/showthread.php?t=135851

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