Mustang Novice

If you guys owned an 05 automatic and had $7500 to use for modifications, how would you modify?

lostsoul

I would get the 4.10 grears SCT and CIA kit and whipple sc and a 6 pack of beer. [sm=icon_guiness.gif]

Higgie

What they said ^^^, only 2X on the beer, I like to share with a car gal. Plus, even if I had to do the whipple in black to save $$, I would drop the car, and add wider tires.

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lostsoul

With the whipple at 5-5.5K the only wheels he will be able to get after the other mods are pepboys..hahaha.. damn.. why cant SC be cheaper!!!! add up the parts and it come out to maybe 700 bucks if that. [sm=boosign.gif]

fin1

An SC would be good but may be premature at this time until more real-world resuts are available.

I recommend looking at what you want out of your car (performance, RWHP, bling-bling, audio, etc.). If you are looking for HP, a good tune with possibly a CAI will help. The gears will give you some off-the-line kick. Dropping a car is a personal choice but I've seen noticeable results couple with sway bar replacements (no wheel hop). Exhaust mods may only result in a different sound and not an noticible HP increase (at least that you can notice) unless you go with new headers and/or x-pipe.

The bottom line is it's a personal choice based on what you want out of the car and how you plan to use it. I know people that are 100% happy with the current performance and focus their resources on more aesthetic items (rims/tires, stripes, audio, interior mods, etc.).

With $7,500 you can have some real fun mod'n it. [sm=smiley20.gif]

96GTponyup

Lower it, some nice wheels, pullys, CAI, SCT Tuner, 4.10 gears and save the rest untile more mods come out or a better more affordable SC comes out.

Man I wish I could have had around 5K to do mods on my car like some of oyu guys did.

Mustang Novice

I don't think I'll spend $7500 yet (although it's tempting). I just thought it would fun to see what people would do. I was wondering how many would do performance vs. appearance vs. entertainment mods and what those mods would be if they had that budget.

lostsoul

Yea.. sway bars are a good addition with lowering the car an inch or more. I dont want to go all out one any one thing..(cant afford it) Just want to get around the 420-450hp mark, Get NAV, lower the car, sway bars and maybe some kind of decal on the car. When I had an eclips awd I spent a good 4K on looks and not much on speed.. Never doing that again. ran over a DEAD skunk at night.. the damn thing broke the front part of my kit, the light that was under there. Put a fat dent into the oil pan, and busted the neon light in the back.. damn