If you're just looking for an array of bolt-on mods, you've got the right idea so far. But I'd go w/ the Steeda Underdrive's. They don't have the piggy-back style crank pulley and they also have the timing markers on the new crank pulley which is really nice for adjusting the timing and what not. The JLT Intake is a good intake as well, I'm looking into one for my 01 Cobra as well, just waiting for the bank account to say yes to that one...

 

well if u have any future plans of supercharging the car, then the underdrive pulleys are just a waste of money because u cant use it with a supercharger.

 

Good call on that!

 

If your on a limited budget here is what you want, in the order you want to get them:

- Cat-back (get a FULL cat-back, not just crappy Flowmaster mufflers welded into your stock piping. I have Bassani, LOVE IT, but its one of the more expensive ones you can get. Check out Magnaflow, always liked their setups. SLP Loudmouth is reasonably prices, and as you would guess LOUD. exhaust will give you a few ponies, but will not make a monster of a car. The #1 reason to do this first, IMHO, is to make a Mustang SOUND like a Mustang.

- Intake - JLT makes argueably the best performing intake for our cars. www.jlttruecoldair.com

- Gears: this will probably be the biggest mod you can do or your car, especially early on, short of going FI. If you plan on staying N/A, or know it will be a long time before you do FI, look for at least 4.10's.

- Mid-pipe. - Cat or Catless X or H pipe. Does wonders for our cars.



Headers - sound AWESOME. expesive though.... $/horsepower gain isnt so good. save them for some point down the road, unless your just itching for the sound of longtubes.

Underdrive Pullies - I dont reall think they'rereally that big of a deal on our cars. Its not like on an import when you free up 6HP you just netted yourself an additional 10% of what your putting to the wheels.

 

a handheld tuner is probably your best bet before most other mods (such as 4.10's for example). Go to a local mustang/performance shop and see if they prefer diablo or SCT tuners more, as they will work with that tuner to make alterations to your car (if u ever dyno it). It will also be beneficial if you ever throw a code or have engine problems.

Keep in mind if you decide to supercharge in the future, the UDP will be useless and need to be changed as mfj said. You say bolt-ons now...but we all know how that goes

 

IDK. Tuning is great and helps out a lot but it's honestly your best bet to get all of your bolt-on peices installed and then take it in for dyno tuning. That's the only way you know your A/F Ratio is correct and know your car is running it's best. Those mail order tunes are junk because you tell the company what mods you have and then they throw together a tune depending on the mods and hope that everything works out. I've used them and I know. I mailed the damn tuner back 3 times to get a correct tune from the company but we couldn't get the car running right. So I tookthe carto Alternative Auto (www.alternativeauto.com) and got a dyno tune done and the car ran the best it's ever ran. I mean do what you feel is best for you but I'd highly recommend the dyno tune.

 

As he said DO NOT get the BBK underdrive pulleys. Go for the Steeda pulleys if you are set on the pulley mod. Piggy back ud pulleys only leadtoan engine rebuild.

I would do a catback andmidpipe as my first mods because they adda little power and give the car a great sound.

 

Thanks for the backup. Yeah exhaust is a must first. That was the first thing I did as well. If you have the $ the Bassani setup on the 32v cars is a great choice in sound and performance, although the Kooks LT's / O-R X & Borla XR1's setup is amazing. I love my Bassani, but if I could trade for that set up I'd do it in a heartbeat!

 

Wow guys thanks for all the responses. Well I don't plan on doing too much performance wise but we'll see, the mod bug kinda got me on the mazda6 so I can't imagine a mustang cobra lol. I'll be keeping it N/A with bolt-ons if anything. Once I officially get the car, I'll be on here a lot more often. In fact I have 2 people interested in the mazda now so hopefully one of them will work out

 

Just curious what is wrong with BBK? Is it just because you get what you pay for or just not good? They're aluminum which will look nice under the hood. I know now I'm getting intake for sure sometime down the road when I get it.