Dennis5374
Junior Member
I just picked up a 2005 mustang gt. I’m looking to transform the car into a street/strip monster , and wanna take the best approach possible .
The car has a jlt 110mm air intake , long tubes , pypes catback , Bbk 62mm throttle body , and motion control valve delete . Has a bama tune , which seems to run well, although I had to overwrite it with hptuners to pass inspection.
With my gto , ive learned my lesson , on building something mildly... never again !
Started out life as a 370 inch iron block ls , with twin s369s that made an honest 1150 whp on a conservative tune , it’s now graduated into a 25.3 chassis car , with carbon trunk , dash , roof , doors , hood, Lexan windows , a 431 inch ls next 6 bolt short block , and twin gen2 pt7675s on m1!
I’m sure as most of you know , to build a car of this caliber , it’s cost me 6 figures and thousands of hours worth of time and building the car several different ways , but anyways without further ado...
I’m thinking the best approach would be a mmr short block or long block , 5.0 3v with custom turbo cams , frpp intake manifold , and a set of 120+ lb/hr injectors @ 43 psi.
Twin walbro hellcat 525s in tank , return style system with -10an feed , and a -8an return . Not sure on compression ratio , that works well with these mod motors , and can still make decent power on 93/m1
Without narrowing the tuning window to much .
I do my own fab work in house, so I’ll alleviate some cost for the hot and cold side , as well as intercooler .. I’ll most likely run twin 6266 precision’s , possibly even 6766’s. The goal is to make an honest 1000 whp , and have it still be capable of driving wherever I want to go.
Now here are the things I’m looking for some help on .
15 inch wheels .. I don’t want to spend 5k on a set of weld vitesse and forged front runners “what I run on the goat “
I’m cool with a set of nice looking summit/jegs wheels , that fit these cars and look good “clear brakes , tuck nicely in fender well, etc “
Best suspension setup .. I wanna upgrade the 3 link , as well as beef up the 8.8 , And run the best coilover setup for a manual street strip car . I have a set of afco big gun front struts , that are for 79-04 mustangs , will these work for a s197?
As far as an arb goes , and upgrading the 3 link , which company builds the best parts for double duty? Any other recommended parts for cutting a decenr 60’ with a 6 speed ?
how difficult is it , and what is needed , to swap the 5 speed out for a max effort t56? Who do y’all go to for a m6 Trans that’ll hold up at these power levels ? I’m assuming a mcleod twin disk would be the right choice .
There’s no real budget here , In retrospect id like to keep it under 35-40 “which i entirely see as being reasonable , if not on the high end slightly “
I just want a daily driver , that’s capable of making and putting down 1000whp at the track, that can roam around with the ac on , and still handle and drive decent on the street .
Forgot to add , I have a couple hundred gallons of m1 , and also have a couple hundred gallons of Renegade pro 120+ octane race fuel to boot . No e85 available here unfortunately . Street will see 93/m1 , track will be 120 octane race fuel .
Any and all advice , criticism , is welcomed .. im pretty thick skinned and fluent in sarcasm to boot
Looking forward to seeing everybodies builds and what route y’all take , in the pursuit of maximum smiles per gallon
The car has a jlt 110mm air intake , long tubes , pypes catback , Bbk 62mm throttle body , and motion control valve delete . Has a bama tune , which seems to run well, although I had to overwrite it with hptuners to pass inspection.
With my gto , ive learned my lesson , on building something mildly... never again !
Started out life as a 370 inch iron block ls , with twin s369s that made an honest 1150 whp on a conservative tune , it’s now graduated into a 25.3 chassis car , with carbon trunk , dash , roof , doors , hood, Lexan windows , a 431 inch ls next 6 bolt short block , and twin gen2 pt7675s on m1!
I’m sure as most of you know , to build a car of this caliber , it’s cost me 6 figures and thousands of hours worth of time and building the car several different ways , but anyways without further ado...
I’m thinking the best approach would be a mmr short block or long block , 5.0 3v with custom turbo cams , frpp intake manifold , and a set of 120+ lb/hr injectors @ 43 psi.
Twin walbro hellcat 525s in tank , return style system with -10an feed , and a -8an return . Not sure on compression ratio , that works well with these mod motors , and can still make decent power on 93/m1
Without narrowing the tuning window to much .
I do my own fab work in house, so I’ll alleviate some cost for the hot and cold side , as well as intercooler .. I’ll most likely run twin 6266 precision’s , possibly even 6766’s. The goal is to make an honest 1000 whp , and have it still be capable of driving wherever I want to go.
Now here are the things I’m looking for some help on .
15 inch wheels .. I don’t want to spend 5k on a set of weld vitesse and forged front runners “what I run on the goat “
I’m cool with a set of nice looking summit/jegs wheels , that fit these cars and look good “clear brakes , tuck nicely in fender well, etc “
Best suspension setup .. I wanna upgrade the 3 link , as well as beef up the 8.8 , And run the best coilover setup for a manual street strip car . I have a set of afco big gun front struts , that are for 79-04 mustangs , will these work for a s197?
As far as an arb goes , and upgrading the 3 link , which company builds the best parts for double duty? Any other recommended parts for cutting a decenr 60’ with a 6 speed ?
how difficult is it , and what is needed , to swap the 5 speed out for a max effort t56? Who do y’all go to for a m6 Trans that’ll hold up at these power levels ? I’m assuming a mcleod twin disk would be the right choice .
There’s no real budget here , In retrospect id like to keep it under 35-40 “which i entirely see as being reasonable , if not on the high end slightly “
I just want a daily driver , that’s capable of making and putting down 1000whp at the track, that can roam around with the ac on , and still handle and drive decent on the street .
Forgot to add , I have a couple hundred gallons of m1 , and also have a couple hundred gallons of Renegade pro 120+ octane race fuel to boot . No e85 available here unfortunately . Street will see 93/m1 , track will be 120 octane race fuel .
Any and all advice , criticism , is welcomed .. im pretty thick skinned and fluent in sarcasm to boot
Looking forward to seeing everybodies builds and what route y’all take , in the pursuit of maximum smiles per gallon