I'll make it brief and easy.
Auto: 1987-1993 Mustang GT body style


Goal:
9.7@146mph or better.
Pump gas
Keeping as quiet as possible
No real slicks
Daily driver as reliable as can be driven hard daily


My ideas:
460 stroked to... 499 514 532 557 605?
Tubbing the car, 300 HP NOS progressive, Auto, 12 pt
roll cage, overly beefed up everything.

I know you can do that e.t. with a smaller engine.
But having a huge big block makes it more torque more fun.
Anyone know the overal price to tub it, roll cage, engine
work, etc? I figure $11,000 for the engine Carb, $15,000
fuel injected. Frame roll cage would be $8,000. Transmission
$2,500 (auto or manual if poss), Rear end I have no clue.
This car would be driven on the street daily. Any body
know of a set up like this already and ready for sale
email me maximus@xprt.net

 

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 06-Sep-01 AT 09:55 AM (EST)[/font][p]You should just about be able to do that without the stoker if you are really going to spray 300. I would probably just go with the 514 crank and make sure they are GOOD rods. No cheap junk here, since thats the typical breaking point. Aluminum heads, ported, I can recomend you to a shop for this if you want.
A comp. C-4 or glide for the transmission...well C-4 if you want to drive it on the street. A 8.8 will hold that power, as well as the stock suspension geometry with 10" slicks. Of course you must beef up the 8.8 with good locker or spool (not for street duty though), some good axles, and of course the required C-clips eliminators. You can do all this pretty reasonable to your existing 8.8 or buy one all done up for you from Currie or someone else. They do sell bolt in 9" as well, but the 8.8 will work. You really don't need to tub it.

Go easy on the cage there, you said you want this to be a daily driver? How in the world are you going to be able to climb in and out of a 12 point cage on a daily basis.

I'm in the middle of a big block swap into a 79 coupe right now, so if you have any more questions feel free to e-mail me at
lewis338@cs.com

Oh I almost forgot check the NMRA for sale board, you can usually find a big block car in there for sale, also check the corral.
chris
79 F-150 Ranger Lariat, 2wd, RC, LB, 460 (intake, headers, cam), C-6(shift kit).

79 mustang (work in progress...its just slow progress)
98 Chevy 4x4 (work truck)
95 Lexus SC300 (wife's baby)

 

Just a quick note, If you intend to use a 300hp NOS be sure you make that known to your machinest/eng builder as a nitrous engine build up is a different animal all together. If this is intended to be driven on the street you might want to reconsider and go with a cheater sys (75-150hp), you won't get the piston slap and occassional puff of oil smoke out the tail pipes that you will get with a "properly built" all out nitrous motor. Dan H. (hotboat1)

 

The 9 inch rear end is much more reliable under serve duty conditions. I wouldn't put a 8.8 in anything like this.

Bob
'66 7 Litre, top loader, 3.25 Traction-lock, Sidewinder Intake, SCJ Exhaust
'88 F150 LWB 4x2, XLT Lariat, 302, 5 speed, 3.08
'99 Ranger, 4x2, 3.0, 5 speed, 3.73 posi

 

hey man,
just food for thought, but you could check the corral(corral.net) for info, there is tons of info for mustangs there. good luck, i was plannin a car kinda similar, but emissions laws would prevent this from being a daily driver for me and that it what i want.
mike