Hello all,
I figured it might be time to start a build thread since it seems I'm never done modding and buying shit for my car lol.
Anyway I traded in my 2005 GT automatic for a brand new 2014 5.0 manual the first week of September. I absolutely fell in love with the 5.0 the first time I drove it. The extra power was amazing as well as it was just a nicer, more refined car. Nothing wrong with the 3v platform (lets not start that war) but my 05 had 70k on the odometer and it had been raced and drove hard everyday for years and started to have creaks and noises as well as quite a few imperfections that really bothered me.
So here it is the day I brought it home.
Then I had them throw on 5% limo tint the next day.
First two things that HAD to go was the stock wheels and the stock exhaust. So I ordered a set of GT500 mufflers the first night I had the car and then took it to Les Schwab for a new set of wheels. When I was switching out the axle backs a couple days later I fired up the car with no mufflers and fell in love with the sound, so I drove it to the muffler shop and had them throw some tips on and make me some muffler deletes. Turns out the tips they had looked like crap and the muffler deletes droned like crazy on the freeway. Not to mention they didnt use the inlet pipes from the stock mufflers like I asked and welded the new muffler deletes straight to my stock over axle pipes. So I knew they wouldnt last long before I changed it to something else.
Anyway Les Schwab had a set of wheels in stock that I liked so I went ahead and purchased them. 18" TSW Tremblants
So wheels, exhaust, and tint all in the first week. Progress was going well.
My original plan was to only do tint, exhaust, and wheels then be happy and just drive it, no more modding. Well I have a problem lol. I cant leave it alone.
Winter was about to start setting in here in Idaho so I figured I would stock pile parts throughout the winter and do a decent sized build in the spring.
I figured it might be time to start a build thread since it seems I'm never done modding and buying shit for my car lol.
Anyway I traded in my 2005 GT automatic for a brand new 2014 5.0 manual the first week of September. I absolutely fell in love with the 5.0 the first time I drove it. The extra power was amazing as well as it was just a nicer, more refined car. Nothing wrong with the 3v platform (lets not start that war) but my 05 had 70k on the odometer and it had been raced and drove hard everyday for years and started to have creaks and noises as well as quite a few imperfections that really bothered me.
So here it is the day I brought it home.
Then I had them throw on 5% limo tint the next day.
First two things that HAD to go was the stock wheels and the stock exhaust. So I ordered a set of GT500 mufflers the first night I had the car and then took it to Les Schwab for a new set of wheels. When I was switching out the axle backs a couple days later I fired up the car with no mufflers and fell in love with the sound, so I drove it to the muffler shop and had them throw some tips on and make me some muffler deletes. Turns out the tips they had looked like crap and the muffler deletes droned like crazy on the freeway. Not to mention they didnt use the inlet pipes from the stock mufflers like I asked and welded the new muffler deletes straight to my stock over axle pipes. So I knew they wouldnt last long before I changed it to something else.
Anyway Les Schwab had a set of wheels in stock that I liked so I went ahead and purchased them. 18" TSW Tremblants
So wheels, exhaust, and tint all in the first week. Progress was going well.
My original plan was to only do tint, exhaust, and wheels then be happy and just drive it, no more modding. Well I have a problem lol. I cant leave it alone.
Winter was about to start setting in here in Idaho so I figured I would stock pile parts throughout the winter and do a decent sized build in the spring.
@ the video!
