kind of stuck between these 2
07-19-2009, 09:25 PM
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your going to be doing a decent amount of maintenance on the srt4 to keep it as a daily driver because it has a bigger turbo on it plus you won't be able to romp on it a lot prob only once and a while but the mustang will be great 90K+ is nothing for the 5.0 i had 176k on the one i bought and i beat on it and the engine is still good(i was rebuilding the motor anyway and i wanted to see if it would go but it didnt) so anyways the mustang is a much better bet and trust me my brother went down the road of buying 4cylinder cars with big turbos and hes been through 3 different cars the past year because they all kept blowing up
the mustang in the other hand is very cheap (alot of 5.0's are around here) from what i'm reading 95k miles is nothing, can't forget the sound of some flows on these 5.0 either. the only thing is it's probably going to take alot more money to get it to were i want it (mid to high 12's while still driving it to college and work)
07-19-2009, 09:26 PM
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My friend had an SRT-4 similar to that and he never got the thing tuned right, yeah it was a real fast car, i only pulled him a couple length but the car gave him more problems that it was worth and he ended up trading it in a couple months later. Buy the mustang and invest a little bit of money into it and 12's will be no problem. Just dont leave out your suspension, you can make all the power in the world but it means nothing if you cant hook.
07-19-2009, 09:34 PM
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My friend had an SRT-4 similar to that and he never got the thing tuned right, yeah it was a real fast car, i only pulled him a couple length but the car gave him more problems that it was worth and he ended up trading it in a couple months later. Buy the mustang and invest a little bit of money into it and 12's will be no problem. Just dont leave out your suspension, you can make all the power in the world but it means nothing if you cant hook.
i want to keep it simple you know. n/a build to get 12's out of would be awesome since i wouldn't be putting stress on the 95k engine with a power adder. but it will probably cost alot. any suggestion?
07-19-2009, 09:44 PM
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07-19-2009, 09:45 PM
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If i had all 8 cylinders in my car and a better set of tires with only new lower control arms, i wouldve hit high 12's and i only made 300 wheel with about 80-90% leakage on my #1 cylinder. good driving, tires, little suspension work and some motor mods and youll be there, and much cheaper than the SRT-4 would cost just to buy.
07-19-2009, 10:00 PM
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you may want to check and see how much the motors are to replace in the srt
A friend of mine has an srt and somehow, I don't know how, dodge made a mistake and sent him a a reman motor and a new motor for his when he blew his up under warranty. He sold the new motor for 6 grand to another guy round here and kept the reman because of the better quality parts. If I am not mistaken it is a 10,000 motor.
A friend of mine has an srt and somehow, I don't know how, dodge made a mistake and sent him a a reman motor and a new motor for his when he blew his up under warranty. He sold the new motor for 6 grand to another guy round here and kept the reman because of the better quality parts. If I am not mistaken it is a 10,000 motor.
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07-19-2009, 10:05 PM
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i'm looking at a completely stock srt, 2005 with 42kmiles for $12k. so from i been researching over these last 3 months, the srt stock with slicks and driver mod (which btw i have 
) are hitting 13.5-13.7 not bad for only a couple hundred dollars for slicks, add a couple bolt ons and up the boost and that car might see low 13's to even high 12's again for less than $2k. so for about 16-17k (including car) i have a 20+ mpg car hitting 12's while driving like its stock.
now say i go with the 95Gt for the $3900. the $5k i would of put down on the srt now pays the mustang and i still have $1.1k to spend on a few mods. now with about $1k in mods what can i do to get the most out of the car without adding nitrous. keep in mind that i will be throwing about another $5k in mods in jan to either car.
) are hitting 13.5-13.7 not bad for only a couple hundred dollars for slicks, add a couple bolt ons and up the boost and that car might see low 13's to even high 12's again for less than $2k. so for about 16-17k (including car) i have a 20+ mpg car hitting 12's while driving like its stock.now say i go with the 95Gt for the $3900. the $5k i would of put down on the srt now pays the mustang and i still have $1.1k to spend on a few mods. now with about $1k in mods what can i do to get the most out of the car without adding nitrous. keep in mind that i will be throwing about another $5k in mods in jan to either car.
