I saw a Focus last year which was converted to a 5.0 and rear wheel drive. I don't know who did the conversion, but it seeme professional and I think it was lots of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

 

ya those cats are on some serious haterade. maybe they should save a little money and go geta real sports car. i can still respectthem for sticking with a ford but man they gotsome foreal issues

 

So you are saying the Mustang V6 is the "bottom feeder?" Perhaps the older V6 Mustangs but hardly the '05+. If you look at hp history of Mustangs,you will see that even the "lowly" '05+ V6 Mustangs have more hp than some of the previous generation GTs.
Not only that, but you are driving a LEGEND and not a Rice-Want-A-Be Ford Focus. Even our '05+ V6 have more hp than the latest mighty V8 Thunderbird.

Sorry, But I would much rather drive a car that has the name Mustang written on it than one that says SVT Focus.

 

To me it's the ricer mentality, I don't dislike the focus but it isn't my taste in cars,I have seen some Mustang guys do the same thing with Corvette's, dissing them to feel better about buying a Mustang, just as silly.

19 years agoI had to drive a Dodge Omni that only ran on 3 cyl's, had to stop every 10 miles or so to put in water because it leaked, had no heat and used more gas than most big blocks because it was such a POS so I would have gladly taken a Festiva, Civic, Pinto enter name of cheap car here.

To them I say be happy with what you have and respect what others have purchased, why ricers can't do that is beyond me, all I ever hear from them is "my 4cyl can beat your 8cyl" or "it took 8 cyl to beat my 4cyl" without taking into account both are just air pumps and power to weight is king, who gives a good crap how you got the the finish line as long as you get there first.

 

That's like saying, the average driver in an '04 Mustang GT is going to see low 15's, because they're rated at 14.8 (http://www.exoticcarsite.com/0-60-qu...mile-times.htm). You can never believe what cars are rated at. LS1's are rated at mid-high 13's and see low 13's very regularly.From real world street racing experience, I can tell you that an SVT Focus will hang right with an auto S197 V6 Mustang and would beat a New Edge sixxer by a decent margain. And of course the car's going to feel **** slow to you. You're comparing your mid-high 13 second 4.10 geared '02 GT to a mid-low 15 second car. If I were to go drive my old 2000 Cavy Z24, after having my bolt-on/geared Z28, of course I'd think it felt **** slow and wouldn't compare to anything either.

 

Double check your sources here dude. You may be referring to the TBird of two generations ago. The last gen shared the 3.9L Jaguar V8 that the LS came with. HP in the mid-high two hundreds. That 4.0 aint pushing 250. It aint weak.....but the 3.9 was a great, great engine.... Talk about something they need to bring back from Europe!

 

[&:]because an extra 15hp along with an extra 300 lbs makes the 4.0s top of the line and the 3.8/3.9s a bottom feeder uhhh ok?[&:][8D]*(chucks freshly painted LT at car)*

 

I don't know why, I always say," atleast its not a Honda".

 

04 GT rated at 14.8?? Don't know where thats comin from but thats wrong. Or maybe you meant an sn95 gt? They arehigh 14- low 15 secoond cars. A new edge gt is rated at 14.1

 

Well, the older V6's aren't horrible, but the newer ones are a good amount faster than the oldest model (I think about 7/8 tenths quicker in the 1/4 than the 04's). And you do know your driving an 02 modded AUTOMATICV6 Stang correct?