turbo Ka vs. 5.0

i was coming home from school and as i was on the way to the highway, i see this red mustang 5.0 notch back. this i know this guy from my class. from what i've heard from my class mates is that his mustang is pretty hooked up. from the outside he has skinnys up front and he has really wide tires in the back.

well he was right behind me on the on ramp and i floor it in 2nd expecting him to floor it with me, and he did floor it at the exact same time. well we both were dead even with him being at my rear quarter panel ( becuase he was at my rear quarter panel when we started ) and i shift to third ( my strongest gear ) and i could no pull away from this guy. so by 90 i had to let off because there was a car in my lane. i felt bad becasue i couldn't pull away from a 5.0 on the highway which is my home turf.

so the next day i asked a few other classmates who knows the guy, and i asked them whats in his car. they said it was secret because he races that car daily, but when i asked if he was a auto, they said he has a tremec 6 speed swaped in from a cobra. i'm like damn so i guess i don't feel so bad for not pulling away from him on the highway cause he probrably got heads, and a new intake manifold on it as well, plus hes the lightlest 5.0 being a notchback and all.

i know its kinda weird how there are alot of 5.0 races goin on, i guess its the time of the season or something.

well nice try, you cant demolish them all. I beat a 5.0 the other day at the track, he only ran a 15.5 though.

so no winner eh? that's cool. He's probably a high 13 sec. car but i dunno kinda hard to say. what do you run?

my car is capable of high 13's so you are right on the money red.

Sounds cool enough. Those very close/dead even races are always the most fun IMO.

yeah too bad we had to stop at 90mph. i'm sure if we went alittle higher it migh turn out in my favor.

Cool, i tried to guess based on your power #'s. Anyway if he's as fast as you then i'd say he's got bolt-ons'. Say intake, exhaust, maybe a cam. With big tires in the back and it being a notch that's probably all he's got done. But then again if it's a all a big secret about what he has then maybe he does have heads. Seems to me with h/i/e he'd be mid low 13's so he's only got little stuff it sounds like.

Well if you go to school with the guy, then I'm sure you'll have other run ins with him, lol.

my friend in a mid 90s GT raced a 5.0 and they were pretty even, the 5.0 would always get just a little ahead when they'd gun it from a roll but my buddy would catch up in just a second and they'd stay neck and neck..

but putting in a tremec 6 speed from a cobra is not little. who knows what else hes got in there.

but putting in a tremec 6 speed from a cobra is not little. who knows what else hes got in there.

Would that even be possible though?? I mean I don't have any basis for saying its not other then the 4.6L in the Cobra is totally different from the 5.0 in the GT, which would make me think the belhousing bolts would be alot different.

well i do go to a automotive engineering school. there is one senior who put a 5.0 in a mazda 929. i was walking to class and i see this boxy ass 929 with a 5.0 sounding exhuast. and from askin my professor that guy did that swap for a senior project seminar project.

back to topic, from what i've heard from his friends, you you gotta change the bell housing and make a custom drive shaft to put it on a 5.0, they actually starting to make conversion kits for it from what they say.

I assumed there would be alot of modifications.

If the guy has went to that much trouble, then you're probably correct when you figure on him having alot more engine mods. And then again, he may have spent all of his money on the tranny swap, lol.

he also has nitrous, but i doubt he sprayed it cusae i would get my ass handed to me big time.

Oh well that's probably the only other "major" thing he has then. It seems like every 5.oh mustang that is relatively fast has the bottle, lol

Yeah, I'd say if he woudl have sprayed on ya then he woudl have pretty much run off and left ya, lol. I am not a fan of nitrous, but it surely is fun to see someone spray, lol. Its like their car gets kicked in the ass by a Mac truck, lol.

There's a notch like that in my area with the tires, racing stripes, and everyone says it walks on vettes, but he couldn't get my my notch last year, running high 13's. People sometimes overestimate. To run 13's, he probably has all bolt-ons, gears, and that crazy tranny. Not a big N2O fan.

There's a notch like that in my area with the tires, racing stripes, and everyone says it walks on vettes, but he couldn't get my my notch last year, running high 13's. People sometimes overestimate. To run 13's, he probably has all bolt-ons, gears, and that crazy tranny. Not a big N2O fan.5 liters are not hard to get into the low 13s, sounds like your underestimating them :2cents:

Oh I know, since we have one running 13's. As long as the engine is in good shape (ours is rebuilt), it takes bolt-ons and maybe gears, and the ability to not roast the tires off upon launching. Just the basics, lots of potential.

T-56 swaps into a 5.0 are pretty easy, starting to become more popular and companies like D&D make it even easier selling complete conversion kits.

With a T-56, the right gears in the back cause of the flexiblility of the T-56's 5th and 6th gear for highway driving, and tires that can stick on a hard launch.... a fresh stock motor 5.0 notch could definetly get into high 13's.

So he might have a lot less mods than you think he does maybe just a few little bolts.

maybe so but those mods were all very purpose ful mods.

maybe so but those mods were all very purpose ful mods.


Oh yes most definetly! like the say "it's not always how much you spend but what you buy"