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What Performance Mods do I start with?

Shane361

Shane361

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Ford1288 said:
Good call on the tranny oil cooler, forgot all about it.
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Here is my "front mount"(lol) tranny cooler that I installed on my GT-Shane
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wickedbird

wickedbird

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510z said:
gears should be top on the list and with an AOD and a heavy vert definitely go 4.10's, get a good shift kit, no b&m junk get a bauhman or transgo, then put a good trans cooler on it, you OD will be fine just keep away from shifting into OD under full throttle and it should be fine, oh and to much of the 1D1 shuffle is hard on them also.

If you plan to keep the AOD and not go 5spd then a decent converter is money well spent, at this point traction is going to start being an issue so i would look into some suspension and stickier tires, some decent upper and lower rear control arms, subframe connectors and plate the torque boxes while your there.

power wise there are MANY options with the 302, alot depends on what you want to spend and what you want out of it, start with the usual bolt on's, exhaust, 65-70mm tb, little bigger mass, you wont see to much from pulleys and i would suggest you dont use the alternator pulley at all, an explorer intake is a good cheap intake, its pretty close to a gt40 and a fairly easy swap and can be had for $100-$150 range. they also have 65mm tb on them and its not to hard to make them work on a fox.

then comes heads, cam, etc etc but we can get into that later its been a long day of trick or treating with the kids lol.
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With the 4.10's I am guessing that I will be hitting about 2800 rpm at 70 mph?
 
DSGimportslayer

DSGimportslayer

DSG in the hisouse!
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89Vert said:
Aren't you the one that told me just to get a Terminator? :lol: I wish it was that easy!!
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well you did say "what mod i should get". the best bang for the buck = termy. i was just throwin it out there. but if you want a more suttle route thats fine with me.. 4.56 with a T56 6 speed. now that would be awesome.
 
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510z

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DSGimportslayer said:
well you did say "what mod i should get". the best bang for the buck = termy. i was just throwin it out there. but if you want a more suttle route thats fine with me.. 4.56 with a T56 6 speed. now that would be awesome.
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i beg to differ the best bang for the buck would be a fox hands down, just the money you would spend on a STOCK cobra, a person could build two nasty foxbody's lol.
 
DSGimportslayer

DSGimportslayer

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510z said:
i beg to differ the best bang for the buck would be a fox hands down, just the money you would spend on a STOCK cobra, a person could build two nasty foxbody's lol.
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to each their own. pick a car any car and set a dollar amount to put into that car, then put the same amount of money into a cobra, the cobras performance gains will prevail. just about every time.
 
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510z

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your parts will also cost 3x more than mine lol, so dollar for dollar i doubt it and you are also starting with a boosted 390hp+ car that cost atleast 4 times more than the average foxbody, so like i said bang for the buck i can build a nice 9sec fox for what you paid for you bone stock car.
 
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