Best bang for the buck = Mustang Ranch!!!

 

best bang for the buck?

thats easy-
tighten the throttle cable...
its free and you get better and quicker throttle response!

 

Dude... if I had 5k to blow, my question wouldnt be what to buy, it would be where is the best place to get my Compteck S/C installed.


I want one soooooo bad.

 

I know...but I would not want to cut the top end like that....I would still go to 9k. i could not hold it back . That is the allure of this car to me....most HP per liter of ANY production car, forced induction, or not, as well as the stratospheric redline . If you are wanting to lower the effective redline and have more torque and power at a lower level, get a 350Z.

I would SO get a comptech if I had the $ for a good tune and sleeves for the engine, as well as an EMS system.

John

 

Thats the same question I asked when I bought my S and joined this forum. On of the members back then Alexs2k or the infamous Officerdown advised me to pay the car off first -probably being an asshole. So I took their advice and put my 5k towards the principle balance. Now the best MOD I have is a Comptech CAI and a paid off '02 S, with 24k miles on it.

Thanks for the advice OD and alex

 

It's true for NA but not FI. The evo for example makes 276HP with a 2.0L.

 

For me it would go:

1. Coilovers look at the KW variant 3's
2. Upgrade your lower front sway bar
3. Take a driving school

At this point youre left with about $1500 and you will actually know the car well enough to make an educated descision for what mods you want next. Doing things like SC or gears soon after you get the car waters down the experience of learning a car and watching it evolve imho.

 

Sleeves for < 20 PSI seems like TOTAL OVERKILL as well.

 

You can't argue with n/a purists. It's like arguing over religion apparantly.

IMHO if you want power, go FI. If you want to blow loads of money and never hope to see much of it back, with an engine that still can't compare to FI go n/a.

If you buy a s/c, you can definitely sell it back on s2ki with little deprecation. It also requires no tuning (unless you want max performance). If you go n/a... More of the money is wasted on tuning, seperate installs (if you don't install yourself), and usually when you sell back the items you have huge deprecation (Most people don't even part out because there is so many 'little' items, aka HUGE LOSS).

I find it to be common sense on what you should choose.

 

This car was designed to withstand a lot of pressure....hence the 9k redline. I, personally, would not subject an engine to the kind of forces at work at 9k + the added stresses of a FI setup.....just my personal opinion....risk is not worth the reward. If I could get the SC manufacturer to give me an engine warranty, in case something blows, it would be worth it.

I am not going to spend $5k on a SC, and have the risk of a $5k engine getting blown. I just dont have that kind of extra $ lying around. That is why I insist on the "overkill" of the sleeving if I were to get a SC, to basically make the risk of a blown engine null.


Just my personal opinion, and everyone is entitle to one. Everyone must run some sort of risk assessment when making a decision like this....i know the chance of blowing an engine is low when under 15lbs of boost, but it is still there.....

John