drhoward

Hey there is nothing wrong with gen 1 turbo probes, I had mine running in the 13's with about $1000 invested on top of a $1500 car, not many other vehicals can do that, but I found reliability became an issue at that point... go figure.... but nothing beats that v8 rumble under your hood

SmOkE_a_JaY

i use to own a 85 svo, to start off i loved that car it is what got me so into mustangs. who ever says that car is cheap to work on is crazy, that car is way more expensive to work on that other mustangs by far. For the time in which the car was made, yes it was beating the hell out of most v8s. when i was drinving in the mountains thier was hardly any car that could keep up. but as for the drag the new cobras would spank it. i just recently bought a 04 cobra with a 2.8 pulley and a SCT tune and thier is no way that svo would have been able to keep up with this car. the stock specs for the svo is "Performance: SVO: 0-60 in 7.5 seconds, 1/4 mile in 15.5 seconds @ 90 mph."
2004 Cobra SVT 0-60 4.5 sec, 1/4- 12.9

Jugador

you guys must not read up on diy mods very much cause there's a lot of free/cheap tricks to svo's and 2.3 turbos in general, it takes a pretty good amount of power in the 2.3 before the parts get really expensive. if you know what you're doing you can squeeze a lot of power out of one for relatively cheap

syntheticGT

<----88 XR4Ti owner.

I love the 2.3T....and I am looking to buy a 2007 GT for daily duties. The XR gets track duty from now on.

83beast

i totally agree with the 4 banger power vs the 8 banger power. theres a total diff feel between the two. mostly cause the turbo kicks in later on than the 8 cyl torque does. i can vouch for this cause i have an 84 SVO with big VAM, 36lb injectors, and the LA3. and i have my 83 GT. and my mom has a 93 LX 5oh. and i drive my uncles 87 LX 5oh some. the V8s have much more of a kick much quicker. and i USED to bash all 4 bangers, but now that i have an SVO, im starting to like the fours more. much more!! but ya, the SVOs are much better suited to road racing, not straight lining.

plazma

I don't know if he means total investemnt into the car or just mod for mod. If your talking about car cost and everything else then i'd say the 5k car that has 35k in mods will kill the 35k car with 5k in mods.
For what it costs for a kb/intake/exhaust you could do a nice aluminum head a decent bottom end build a big turbo and alot of other things. I know the stock bottom ends on the 2.3t can withstand over 430rwhp. Figure a kb cobra makes easy 550rwhp and could go alot higher but weighs like 3800+lbs where as in the fox 2.3t weighs like 3000lbs. Might make for an interesting race.

About the running 32psi I dunno why you couldn't do it on stock pistons and rods. I did 30psi for over a year with like 70 passes at the track and 40 dyno pulls. You non 2.3t people have to remember 30psi through a poor flowing head isnt anything like 30psi in a dohc cobra.

1HOTTSHOT

If you advance the cam in a 2.3l enough, you'll get some lower end power as opposed to high rpm power.

ktp1598

2.3T's are a little bit exotic. I love the sound of a V8, but I also like having something besides the run of the mill mustang. There are a bunch of those around here. I also like the idea of a lighter front end for handling. Then there's the feel of the turbo when it starts to build boost...

sleeper_inc

I don't know what the deal is with 4 VS 8, either way, if the HP was even, the 4 cylinder would win because 1) its lighter 2) can handle high boost on stock internals.

I am not a 4 cylinder fan, nor a V8 fan, I enjoy both, and I also find working on both is easy to me. I would rather have a 4 cylinder because you get good gas milage and its the pervect sleeper car

FoxGT

lol, you just started a war! [8D]
Alot of them havn't raced any turbocharged car, especially one that has a little bit of work done to it. You have to keep in mind though, turbo 4 cylinders and v8's are about equal, but when you throw a turbo or two on a v8 things get alot easier for the v8 to add power.
A turbo 4 cylinder & n/a 4 cylinder sound quite a bit different. As for how much money spent. I think you're confusing foreign 4 cylinders to domestic. It doesn't take much money to get a turbo 2.3 to 300whp. There are quite a few people in the high 300's that havn't bought anything other than a few parts from the junkyard.
All in the low end. It's nice the throttle response of a v8, how hard it kicks you into the seat at low rpm. While true, both are about equal at high rpm. Both will take off and kick you about just as hard as the other if you punch it from 4500rpm.
There are quite a few people out there running 30psi on stock turbo 2.3 internals. It isn't the boost that kills the v8 it's the hp. Think of the power you would be putting out if your car was pushing 30psi, enough to break quite a bit of engine and drivetrain parts.

Plazma, maybe your video of your car could be of some interest here.
http://videos.streetfire.net/search/...a50015b245.htm