Ghost Cam Idle Tune - 2011 Mustang GT 5.0L 4V - Bama Custom Tuning Preview
04-19-2011, 07:47 AM
#21
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This coming from a guy who advertises he has axle backs. You realize those axle backs aren't doing anything for performance, right? Pot calling the kettle black?
As a guy on the SVT forum said, or thereabouts: I relate this to a car with a turbo, putting on a blow-off valve. The car already had the turbo, but now everybody else knows, too.
This car already makes insane power - now everyone will know.
As a guy on the SVT forum said, or thereabouts: I relate this to a car with a turbo, putting on a blow-off valve. The car already had the turbo, but now everybody else knows, too.
This car already makes insane power - now everyone will know.
04-19-2011, 03:55 PM
#23
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Texas
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Ok here comes a real dumb question. Sorry in advance, but I have only ever played with the exhaust on my previous mustangs. I plan to get the CAI and tune kit eventually. Can this sound be lumped in with the tune? Another words will I still get the benefits of the tune and also the sound? The original post said there are no gains or losses from it so just curious.
04-19-2011, 04:21 PM
#24
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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I think it sounds cool and all but it's still 'ricey' IMO. It doesn't do anything for performance.
It's like those people who put the speaker in their engine bay that plays the BOV sound. Does the car have a turbo? No, it's to make people think that you do.
Now people will be saying they raced/beat/whatever a cammed 5.0. Not the case.
It's a touchy subject and I know I'm asking for a flaming.....
It's like those people who put the speaker in their engine bay that plays the BOV sound. Does the car have a turbo? No, it's to make people think that you do.
Now people will be saying they raced/beat/whatever a cammed 5.0. Not the case.
It's a touchy subject and I know I'm asking for a flaming.....
04-20-2011, 05:40 PM
#25
Ok here comes a real dumb question. Sorry in advance, but I have only ever played with the exhaust on my previous mustangs. I plan to get the CAI and tune kit eventually. Can this sound be lumped in with the tune? Another words will I still get the benefits of the tune and also the sound? The original post said there are no gains or losses from it so just curious.
But to be sure I know for sure the truth, I too want to know if the idle lope can be piggybacked into any tune.
04-20-2011, 07:23 PM
#27
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Illinois
Posts: 1,846
I think it sounds cool and all but it's still 'ricey' IMO. It doesn't do anything for performance.
It's like those people who put the speaker in their engine bay that plays the BOV sound. Does the car have a turbo? No, it's to make people think that you do.
Now people will be saying they raced/beat/whatever a cammed 5.0. Not the case.
It's a touchy subject and I know I'm asking for a flaming.....
It's like those people who put the speaker in their engine bay that plays the BOV sound. Does the car have a turbo? No, it's to make people think that you do.
Now people will be saying they raced/beat/whatever a cammed 5.0. Not the case.
It's a touchy subject and I know I'm asking for a flaming.....
The reason you can get the 2011+ to sound like it has big lobe cams is because you can in fact make the car ACT like it has big lobe cams. The power from what i've read shifts to the upper RPMs and feels very similar to actually camming the car. All the tune is doing is playing with the timing of already big lobed cams in the 5.0, rather than on the older models you had to add big lobed cams to actually get that noise.
It would be one thing if it weren't being created by the car, but in this case, it's the car, not audio equipment that's making the sound occur.
I'm still waiting?
04-28-2011, 07:30 PM
#29
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Georgia
Posts: 216
I think it sounds cool and all but it's still 'ricey' IMO. It doesn't do anything for performance.
It's like those people who put the speaker in their engine bay that plays the BOV sound. Does the car have a turbo? No, it's to make people think that you do.
Now people will be saying they raced/beat/whatever a cammed 5.0. Not the case.
It's a touchy subject and I know I'm asking for a flaming.....
It's like those people who put the speaker in their engine bay that plays the BOV sound. Does the car have a turbo? No, it's to make people think that you do.
Now people will be saying they raced/beat/whatever a cammed 5.0. Not the case.
It's a touchy subject and I know I'm asking for a flaming.....
04-28-2011, 08:37 PM
#30
5th Gear Member
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Posts: 4,256
Yeaaaah. The stuff that they do to appear fast never ceases to amazes me. It's a shame that that "initiative" isn't put to a better cause
