New user and Mustang owner

mmb243

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Figured I should introduce myself since I'll likely be posting more.

Last fall I purchased my first Mustang, a 2006 Roush Stage 3 with a lot of work done to it. I wanted a track car that I could daily drive in the summer, and this fit the bill perfectly at a screamin' deal. I took it to my local track (BIR in MN) and decided I wanted more power, so I'm in the process of a supercharged gen 2 coyote and T56 swap. Thankfully, I have my dad to help since he's been doing Mustangs since the 80s, has six 68s and 69s, (including a 68 Shelby and two Boss 429s), and also a couple 8 and 9 second race cars. So I'm in good hands. However, he's the biggest FE guy you'll ever meet, even manufactures performance parts for them and has his own website with forums (fepower.net). This means anything past 1969 is a rare sight in his garages, and the electronics with the coyote are a huge concern for us. Initially we wanted to use his engine dyno, but since it was built in 1994 it's missing a lot of crucial things modern engines have. For example, it wants a throttle linkage and it needs a special mount to fit a coyote.


We opted to go with Lethal Nate Performance and Wiring instead of the make it modular route, and hopefully we won't run into too many issues. Once I get it up and running I'll likely be posting more about track performance and what things I could improve since it's all very new to me. I'll attach some pictures below of the car, and thank you all for the vast information already provided on this forum.
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Laurietaz

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Welcome! Similar to you, I bought my first mustang an 05 Stage 1 Roush Mustang and my dad is also a big FE guy, but in a 66 Fairlane (Badhenry). He met your dad at drag week back in 2005 in Michigan and has talked to him, your dad has some sweet rides!

Great looking S197, sounds like some fun plans you have, I look forward to seeing the build progress.

I'm heading down to Muncie, IN to watch my dad race at the FE reunion, is your dad gonna be there?
 

Squirrely

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Welcome and have fun with that build with your dad!!! Me and my son butted heads a couple times. End result was a 10 sec. Neon

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