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Is it me, or does the 4.6 Mustang GT sound better than the new 5.0?

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Old Aug 30, 2010 | 10:39 AM
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anyone can handle it even grandma, just don't get stupid while driving it.
Old Aug 30, 2010 | 10:44 AM
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Originally Posted by LS WHAT
anyone can handle it even grandma, just don't get stupid while driving it.
I was thinking the same thing, yeah I was considering the 5.0 too. I like the styling of the 05-09 generation though.
Old Aug 30, 2010 | 02:31 PM
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if i was 16-17 yrs old with a 5.0 i would prolly woundnt be here lol. but yah its a bit much!
Old Aug 30, 2010 | 02:53 PM
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Yeah I'm with you, the 4.6's sound better. The best would be the New Edge 4.6's imo
Old Aug 30, 2010 | 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by alec231236
Yeah I'm with you, the 4.6's sound better. The best would be the New Edge 4.6's imo
thats why i have both!
Old Aug 30, 2010 | 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by StayingFit24_7
Thanks for all that information man. I appreciate it. By the way, your car is completely bad ***,

Thanks lol.

A teen handle a 5.0.

That is a tricky question.
MOST teens I would NOT recommend it to.
Especially teens these days. (no offense)

But there are a few teens out there that are responsible and have had enough experience on the road with parents to operate one.

I would not even recommend one of the older GT's to a normal teen though.
You really have no idea how powerful a 300hp car is with alot of torque much less a 412Hp one.
It takes LITTLE for the car to get away from you and that is VERY dangerous.

I gotta admit if I was a teen I'd be thinking I was the most badass person in town with a new 5.0...... but man the new V6 is MORE than enough for a teen. More power than most teens should have.

I'm only in my 30's, but when I was a teenager I saved up my OWN cash and found an old '70 MACH 1.
Orange with black stripes... decked out.. racing seats... SUCH a beauty.
Was the first classic muscle car I had ever seen in real life and I immediately fell in love with it.
Was down the street from me and the owner had kept it in awesome condition.

This was back in the early to mid 90's.
Took my father to check it out with me and we test drove it.
I thought I was in a damn rocket ship when the engine started and I heard it.
We drove it for a couple of miles. Actually... HE drove it.
Got it back and my father kept telling me how awesome the car was.
The owner only wanted 6k for it.

So I said to him "I should buy it then right dad?"

His reply to me was ...
"You are NOT going to buy this car. I will not allow it. If you buy this car you will end up getting yourself killed."

The car today would be worth at LEAST 30k.. maybe alot more.
Although there is a part of me that will never forgive him for that car getting away from me,especially with my own money... the wise and mature adult in me realizes that my father did what was best for my safety and he was probably right in what he said.

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Old Aug 30, 2010 | 03:09 PM
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there are a lot of things that makes the exhaust sound the way it does.
displacement, # of valves, cams, FI, firing order, muffler placement (2v's have a resonance with the mid mufflers), midpipes, diameter of pipes, etc.

give the 2011 GT more time so the aftermarket can catch up and it will sound a lot better than it does now.

if i had a 2011 GT i would lose the axle back mufflers, dump it right after the resonators, LT's, and o/r h pipe, and some cams. this could sound deadly.

IMO, a nicely done push rod fox body sounds the best.
like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z67VlIzLAro
Old Aug 30, 2010 | 03:13 PM
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Is that Tone Loc?


LOL!

He got some funky cold medina in that stroker!
Old Aug 30, 2010 | 04:24 PM
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All stock Mustangs need at least one mod, exhaust.
Old Aug 30, 2010 | 05:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Blacksmoke
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Is that Tone Loc?


LOL!

He got some funky cold medina in that stroker!

LOL. it could be. with that cam maybe he's Tone Lope.



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