sqrlnts

93 LX FiveO, Probably an entire book on it but, How do you improve on a 60' time in a stock car? Or, Are you talking about improving driving skills to lower the time?

Yeah, the correction factor brings the ET down to a 16 flat, still man, that is some slow *** $hit. It was funny too cause I wrote down 15.00 on my tech card thinking that was gonna be "slow" for the car. The tech guy instead wrote down 13.5. WOW, were we both wrong!!

sqrlnts

I know huh, its almost a damn disgrace! I didn't do the tuneup myself nor am I sure who exactly did the tune up. Hey at least there is LOTS of room for improvement. I was going to swap in 3:55's and do a AOD Transgo shift kit, but I think I'm gonna wait. I think I will try to sort the car out in stock form first.

88BlueGT

I would make sure that everything is running correctly.

Remove your air silencer.
Replace air filter with K&N
Bump Timing to around 13*

You should feel somewhat of a gain and it will only cost about $40 bucks all together.

P Zero

Id even check the cats. After driving your car for a while look under it to see if the cats are glowing. If they are then you have 1 or 2 problems. 1 problem might be that the cats are just plugged up and restricting your exhaust to the point where youre losing performance. Or 2 one of your cylinders isnt firing all of the time and gas is pooling in the cat.
Just out of curiosity, what brand parts were used for the tuneup? Ive run into problems using "cheap" tuneup parts. The worst of which the car developed a bad misfire, to the point where it would only run on 3 cylinders (1.9L 4cyl). The tuneup on that car was no more than 4 months old. I replaced all the cheap parts with factory motorcraft parts never had another problem.
-P.

Twotone93stang

how do I bump my timing

93 LX FiveO

timing light

sqrlnts

Will check everything out this coming weekend. Not sure what parts were used for the tune as it was done prior to me purchasing the car.

hellas85stang

well a 93 is 3365lbs so id say a 91 is close to that..i see it in my mustang book....and a 16s at track on a 150-175 hp at wheels is about right//go to the hp calculater they have on first part of this website///add your weight and you have a 3500lbs car

sqrlnts

You guys are not going to believe this but I will tell you anway. I ordered a C/A/I and it came in today. I still had not found the source of my slowness, that is until today. I started taking the intake piping apart and removed the air filter completely from the housing. When I pulled the air silencer out of the fenderwell I found a friggin plastic Rainbow bread sack stuck in there!!!! Can you believe that? I am curious how the car was running at all. So between removing the plastic sack and installing the CAI, the car now feels like a complete beast.
Anyway, just thought I would share.
Later

88stangaruu

Something stuck to the filter and its rainbow colored...Damn....thats pretty bad