cenok is family
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Let me start by saying I apologize if this question gets asked a lot, I tried to search but couldn't really find what I was looking for.
New member here, I hope to find a new home with the coyote crowd. I've had many fox bodies over the past almost 20 years, but decided it's time to get into something a little newer and safer for my 11 month old daughter. I am looking to buy a 2011-2014 mustang gt with a manual trans this week, but in all honesty, I don't know much about these cars aside from having yote's in them. I had an 05 F150 with the notorious 5.4 3v that I just sold a few days ago, so i'm not entirely new to mod motors, just coyotes. Anyways, to my question...
I only plan on spending up to around $17k for one, so 98% of my options are 2011/12's with a few 13's littered in. I have yet to see a 14 in my range so that's why i'm not really including them. I'm driving down to Texas in a few days (I live in Oklahoma) to look at three, possibly four different Premium GT's. Two of them are 2011's, one is 2012, and one is a 2013. All are between 60-70k miles on them. Is there anything I need to know or look for when I'm checking these cars out?
Thanks for your help!
Oh also, one 2011, the 2012, and the 2013 all appear to be stock, dealer trade-ins (all at dealerships), and the other 2011 is a private seller. The 2011 from the private seller is the one i'm most interested in and pretty much has a full exhaust, lowered, pan hard bar, and an SCT x4 with Lund "cam" tune which I assume is a ghost cam tune. What is the deal with ghost cam tunes? Are there any advantages to them or do they only make the car sound lopey? If there is no performance gain to them, I plan on getting rid of that tune if I end up buying that one. I don't plan on doing a lot of modding for a while since the car will be my daily and I'm going to need it to last a while. At most for a while I just want exhaust, intake, and a tune, hence why I'm most interested in the private seller's car.
Again, thank you for any and all help!
New member here, I hope to find a new home with the coyote crowd. I've had many fox bodies over the past almost 20 years, but decided it's time to get into something a little newer and safer for my 11 month old daughter. I am looking to buy a 2011-2014 mustang gt with a manual trans this week, but in all honesty, I don't know much about these cars aside from having yote's in them. I had an 05 F150 with the notorious 5.4 3v that I just sold a few days ago, so i'm not entirely new to mod motors, just coyotes. Anyways, to my question...
I only plan on spending up to around $17k for one, so 98% of my options are 2011/12's with a few 13's littered in. I have yet to see a 14 in my range so that's why i'm not really including them. I'm driving down to Texas in a few days (I live in Oklahoma) to look at three, possibly four different Premium GT's. Two of them are 2011's, one is 2012, and one is a 2013. All are between 60-70k miles on them. Is there anything I need to know or look for when I'm checking these cars out?
Thanks for your help!
Oh also, one 2011, the 2012, and the 2013 all appear to be stock, dealer trade-ins (all at dealerships), and the other 2011 is a private seller. The 2011 from the private seller is the one i'm most interested in and pretty much has a full exhaust, lowered, pan hard bar, and an SCT x4 with Lund "cam" tune which I assume is a ghost cam tune. What is the deal with ghost cam tunes? Are there any advantages to them or do they only make the car sound lopey? If there is no performance gain to them, I plan on getting rid of that tune if I end up buying that one. I don't plan on doing a lot of modding for a while since the car will be my daily and I'm going to need it to last a while. At most for a while I just want exhaust, intake, and a tune, hence why I'm most interested in the private seller's car.
Again, thank you for any and all help!
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