Durr727

I currently own a 2003 Torch Red Mach 1 with 15,xxx miles on it. Excellent condition lowered with a set of fr500s and an SLP full exhaust.

I will might be coming into a "small" amount of money (~$10k)

I want some opinions please.

Do I go:

2013/14 5.0
2007-2009 Shelby

or

keep the Mach 1 and supercharge.

I'm open to any suggestions also!

kast1376

Keep the Mach 1. Payments suck.

dawson1112

I find it laughable that 10k is a small amount of money J/K lol



I think if you love your mach, and it drives good and looks good,,,

BOOST IT AND TUNE IT

Durr727

I put small in quotes because $10k won't really solve many problems (I'm getting the money from a medical issue) haha but I still have payments on the mach 1 and boosting right will full suspension and transmission as well as professional installation + dyno tune can very well cost $10k, and not sure how reliable the Mach blocks are.

Z28KLR

No real issue with the block or rotating assembly. Not sure what the hp threshold is for 4V with stock internals but it should hold 400+ quite reliably given proper fuel mods and tuning.

Soldier GT

Stay with the Mach.

Durr727

Or possibly full cam swap and stay N/A?

Ogre

I know it's not any fun, but you could pay off your car note and free up $$ for future mods. Dang, I sound like my dad...

Durr727

Yeah with the money I could pay off my credit cards and car but thats no fun

haha realistically I will take care of what I need to but I want to treat myself also, just not sure what direction I want to go in.

Hangwire

Anything that doesnt require payments. Having a payment feels like driving around with an anchor attached to your car. That ****s not fun.

The absolute first thing you should do is pay off your loan with the money. Whatever is left over goes towards mods. Now that you dont have payments you should be able to pay your bills and snowball a mod fund pretty fast as you go.

Dollar for dollar, modifying your mach will get WAY more performance then buying an S197 or S550 GT500. The Mach block itself will handle whatever you throw at it. But the stock internals wont. ~450WHP will be the limit for the Mach 1 internals.