And yeah man if I was auto I wouldn't have any trouble haha. It's all about learning to drive manual. Which is the only way I'll ever drive a mustang personally.
stock shifter here, no issues (I did swap trans fluid to Pennzoil Syncromesh). Stock 2-pc drive shaft here too.
If you want to save your money on that 1pc drive shaft, but still want that one tenth at the track:
- pull passenger seat (four bolts and 45+ lbs)
- gut your trunk (spare, jack, shaker sub and amps)
- run a power steering delete short belt (can swap it at the track in 10mins or less, then swap back before you go home)
yep
look here with a couple of options:
- pick up a set of 17" OEM wheels off craigslist cheap and go with p/n 3743 (26x11.50-17LT). I used to run this setup before switching to 15" drag wheels
- or get a set of 16" OEM V6 wheels and use p/n 3792 (26x10.5-16LT)
The 16" OEM should clear your brakes with no issue, will be lighter than the 17" OEM/ET street combo (buy a couple pounds), and there's plenty of section width/contact patch for your power level. You can drive to/from the track with either of the above combo's without issue.]
Power steering delete belt was worth tenth to two tenths for me. Best bang for the buck and that was In 1/8 mile. Highly suggest it
I'd rather do that later on. For now I like having the car in one piece, driving all night Friday and racing all day Saturday and back to cruising sunday. I don't want to prep for race day two days in advance pulling this and that. I can hit 12.5 or better with what I have planned and later on I'll start going more towards a weekend warrior route and get her into the 11s. But I think these guys had steered me right with the wheel/tire setup and RPM suggestions and launch suggestions which is much appreciated.
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Also I'll just throw this out there I have 4.56s I used to drive it to work 100 miles round trip in the mountains on drag radials. I never had a problem and I was still getting 18mpg.
Seriously, like said before forget the MSD 2-step and go with the wot box. You'll have the 2-step function for launch and safe power shifting with the no-lift shifting feature will definitely cut your times down. You'll never even notice it when driving on the street.