Alright so I'm pretty much decided on buying a 2000 V6 mustang. I have it narrowed down to one and I'm going to be looking at it this weekend. Anyway I don't really care an insane amount for power but it would be nice if I could keep my car up there with the fastest cars in my school parking lot. Thats probably a recipe for death but I probably won't go through with coughing up the money to do this stuff when the time comes. Anyway after next yearpretty much thee whole street racing scene in my school is going with the senior class. The fastest cars in my school parking lot next year will be a 350Z thats driven by a girl so it doesn't really count and an Eclipse GT which is automatic so I should be neck even with it.

Anyway to cut to the chase, assuming some kid pops up with like an Impreza WRX or something how far can I push my car while keeping it a daily driver? I know if I supercharge it I would have a beast but I'm not aware of how practical that is. Is there any other way of gaining huge amount of power? Would supercharging be the way to go?

I know a lot of people will call me crazy for wanting this much power at my age but like I said I probably won't go through with any of this. I just want to know how my car could go if I decide to buy it.
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Hmph, you'll have to do some wicked work to run with an Imperez WRSX. In short, you can supercharge and or turbo charge a car and it still be a daily driver simply because the S/C and or T/C only kicks in after 3000 rpms. In short, if you don't go past 3000 rpms, you will have all the power in the world when you want it, and still get regular drivability out of your car.

 

I think that you should probably just upgrade the diff, gears and then supercharge it. Turbocharging requires too much work on the engine and cuts the life of the engine in half (from what I hear) And most fast cars now adays are 4 cylinders with turbos. I have a friend with a stock cobalt SS (2.4 4 cylinder supercharged) that can keep up with a GSX. So the 6 cylinder supercharged should b planty of power to play with the faster cars in a school parking lot

 

you heard wrong

there is no difference in a turbo or a supercharger basically for how they put stress on an engine. the extra air the force into the engine isn't what is hard on them. it's running the engine without a proper air fuel ratio and proper timing that will kill any engine turbo or supercharged.

turbo's make more power at lower boost levels than superchargers. both are good and will make close to 300rwhp or more from 7-11psi on a 2000 v6 stang. a turbo'd car will last just as long as a supercharged car and they will both last as long as a stock engine as long as all 3 are properly tuned and maintained