How much Horsepower and Torque is enough? For me, I like Torque over HP.

 

Enough? good question,,,

A person for sure has too much when he or she can no longer put the power to the pavement. Horsepower withoug traction is useless!!!

 

i like the max torque i can get nothing like snapping axles and wheel studs to put a smile on my face

 

WELL HELL.... you like snapping that stuff send me some money if it that abundant.

 

very proud of my 289 stock torque and if I had the option to add either HP or torque i'd go for more torque
have to be careful with my I6 rear though
** bl00dy not getting an appointment in garage til after easter to fix my rear [:@]

 

I'm in the same boat as you i got a 331 stroker and cant use all my torque, im afraid it my shatter my little I6 rear. How hard do you push your I6 rear?

 

i never pushed it really hard. a few wheel hops but never a burn-out.
But I can only guess what the previous owner did with the car. From what the tires looked like he had a lot of fun with this setup.

I was very lucky as JMD was nice to send me over a good 66.000 mile rear (pionion and gear). I bought all bearings and races.
I hope to have them fixed by mid April (garage)

For me a 9" or 8" rear is not an option as the parts with shipping and all addons (wheels, tyres, brakes) will cost more than half of what the car is worth I'd guess
... i don't even want to know what a shipping from Currie will cost to Ireland ....

Kalli

 

Ahhhhh, a 331 stroker, I like that. Is it a roller?

 

to be honest i have no idea i just saw it getting wheeled out of the shop and i said "hey whats that." "i believe its a 331 stroker" "HOW MUCH?" "ill sell it for $400 its just taking up space and i've got vt bills to pay for" "OK done ill pick it up saturday"
SO... i havent had time to take it apart and ask every one qustions about it.

 

+1 on torque over hp. My 1990 5.0 was by far my most fun mustang. It may not have all the hp of a new one, but all that torque made it so much more fun to drive.

Anyone know how much power a 1965 cruise-amatic transmission is good for??? I've got the origional automatic in thereand I'd rather not blow it up.