mustang 5.0 luv em or hate em?

[ExtreemATV]

i cannot stant the F*$#!@ 4 fog lights that the mustangs have they look retarder

[gtkriss]

Personally, I'm more of a Gm person, then rice.. then ford.. But I do give stangs credit... They are the common ppl's muscle car that car modded in anyway... One thing I hate about them, is well, everyone has one! You can go for a drive a see 3 in a 5 minute period! But besides that... Mustang is tried and true performance.

[Muscletang]

Even though this is an old thread I wanted to get my in.

The people who say the 5.0 sucks, have you drove one? I can say yes because my dad has a 90 gt and the only mods is has are K&N air filter, equal length headers, 2 chamber flowmasters, and 3.55 rear end gears. I must say before the gears it had 2.73 and could keep up with just about any car I ran into on a friday night. You guys say its slow, well, tell that to the guys I left behind who thought the same.

I've talked to adults (gm people I might add) who say from 88-93 the 5.0 was THE car to get. Can you think of any other car that could almost run in the 13s for under $20,000? A 90 or 91 LX would run a 14.1 and it cost $13,000 new. I think thats really good.

And on a finale note (I hope you camaro fans dont get onto me too much for this) the 5.0's rival was the camaro with a 305 at the time. GM had to upgrade to the 350 because ford's 302 would kick the crap out of a 305, and even at that the 302 could still run with a 350. (If I've made a mistake about what I just said about the camaro I hope you camaro fans will call me on it and correct it.)

Anyway this is what I feel about the 5.0. If you still think its a sucky car, go to msn autos and look up the ratings for the 5.0. About 95% of all the ratings are a 90-100.

[90redgt]

When my 5.0 was running, it had intake, gears, exhaust, and a pro5.0 shifter. It ran 14.81 in the 1/4 mile. It also had 230,000 miles on it. I've never come across an import with that many miles and running faster than that without boost. pretty f'n good to me.

[TRD2000]

I like the old school mustangs like the 66 and the shelby GT (Elenor! haha GIFS) the newer ones seem to be missing something, and the build quality looks like crap... specially the convertables...

[240NIZ]

I agree, I gotta go with the oldies. My first car was a 66 289. Man I miss that car.

[Markgase2000]

Fact like it or not , the 5.0 and 4.6 comunity is the largest most popular community in the world. Since theres more after market parts for power available to these engines even more so than any others in the world , why because the mustang was designed to be the most possable most hardcore production car in the world! You can make a monster with these on almost any budget. I dont own one but I drivem every day and talk to enthusiasts of these machines Ive spent months trying to cover most the stuff available for them but the list grows so fast theres no way I can. But for a production sports car it depends what your looking for if you want unique dont get a stang cus every one and there dog has one already.

[TRD2000]

most hardcore production car in the world?.... man you need to get out more!

if that was the aim when they designed it i would hope it would come out a hell of a lot better...

[Markgase2000]

yes it has way more mod possabilities than any other car in the world its a fact we dont gotta like that but its true therefore its the most hardcore and less costly than other cars to mod up cus it comes with some preformance already.

[TRD2000]

hmmmmm so it wasn't "designed" to be... but if you spend enough you can make it pretty cool huh?

i'd rather have an EVO 8 or a GTR ...Supra.... M3... Monaro... actually pretty much ANY HSV... hell, i'd get a BA falcon before i'd get one of the newer mustangs... (except maybe the newest)

[91300zxtt]

Originally Posted by TRD2000

hmmmmm so it wasn't "designed" to be... but if you spend enough you can make it pretty cool huh?

i'd rather have an EVO 8 or a GTR ...Supra.... M3... Monaro... actually pretty much ANY HSV... hell, i'd get a BA falcon before i'd get one of the newer mustangs... (except maybe the newest)

ya cuz the saleens and the cobra r's are so slow that they would get whooped by all the cars u listed

[Markgase2000]

those are fine and dandy cars but you wont be able to mod them as affectively on a small budget. Its a tough car as well im more into 4 doors and smaller sport cars myself however I cant ignore the fact that a stock mustang gt 4.6 with 5,000 buck added engiine mods such as clutch and flywheel supercharger cams makes for a cheap straight away missile. You can also soupem up and makem drive on rails with over a thousand suspension setups to play with and choose from. These cars have more available bolt on power than any of the cars you mentioned but lacks in something........... unique qualities like the evo or supra and rarety. Id rather a focus svt over a lancer evo anyday , svt focus IS best handling fwd car in the world has racing suspension stock and a very moddable engine as well. Lancers are nice so are bmw's I used to work for toyota so i kinda got turned off from them (never seen so many crooks) but still enjoy a nice lookin supra. If I wanted to make a montster car I wouldnt buy a gt mustang cus Id feel like i was cheating and following the herd.

[Markgase2000]

Originally Posted by TRD2000

hmmmmm so it wasn't "designed" to be... but if you spend enough you can make it pretty cool huh?

i'd rather have an EVO 8 or a GTR ...Supra.... M3... Monaro... actually pretty much ANY HSV... hell, i'd get a BA falcon before i'd get one of the newer mustangs... (except maybe the newest)

its not designed per say but it was somewhat intentional to make the stangs easy to kick ass with cheap mods. I never seen engines that can handle nitrous with no mods on a daily basis like in the 4.6's and 5.0's. Its a durable engine.

[TRD2000]

so how much power can they put out before you have to start changing internals?

also.. how much does it cost for the first 40hp?.. just an idea of how "tunable" the actual standard car is, and how much of the standard car would be left when you build one of these monsters... cause if you change too much then it really has nothing to do with how the car was designed or how they are standard...

also... the focus really is a nice car! but it's front wheel drive... the EVO is 4 wheel... and the 4g63 is easily upgradable.

[Markgase2000]

well my buddy put over 125 hp dry shot of nitrous on his and uses it every day (the idiot) and has for 2 years pretty much without any problems but I bet if he got more carried away internal strengthening would be required to keep it reliable but hes happy with the simple 125 shot. I know another buddy of mine with a 89 302 cobra put 100hp in his for 2000 bucks involved camshaft and electrical upgrades with underdrive pulleys and quick shift with timing advance and hes broke into the 12's with that old hunk. I keep looking for toys for as many other cars as I have time to and have not found anything thats cheaper to modify. But like I said Im not into the mustangs. I guess you can tell I like fwd cars since I mentioned the focus. Me and my buddy (the guy with the 302 cobra) went test driving all makes to compare to the focus st that just came out. We drove wrx subaru , lancer evo8 , mazda 6 , civic sir and this new suzuki swift and compared performance and handling. The quickest was the evo8 then the wrx then the focus then the suzuki then the civic. The best handling was Focus , evo , subaru , swift and civic were quite simular. Those subaru took off on the line best but when you let off and reapply it was kinda gutless for a bit the focus went almost as good as both the evo and subaru but with no turbo it was slightly raped. I also discovered Im not into 4wd but thats just me.
Sorry i off topiced