alright my friend has a 03 mustang with exhuast system, cold air intake and a tuner chip. his car is automatic. i have stock 99 that is manual. would i have any chance at winning this race if we raced?

 

I will give the edge to him, but dont give your hopes up.

 

dont get my hopes up that i would win? or that he would win

 

I would put my money on the 03 but, hey go find out at the track!

 

'03 should run ya, but still race him. Find out.

 

Yup, 03' has a few mods and shoud win. He does have an auto but the manual won't make up that much ground unless he is a ****ty a$$ driver. GL

 

The 03 also has a couple more ponies due to the IMRC's, i think he will get you unless you are a great driver.

 

+1 to the track

With IMRC's he has more grunt than you do in the lower rpms, after 3000rpms he is at a slight flow disadvantage due to the minor restriction the shafts impose. Both of you will top out right about 5300rpms before power starts dropping. Your torque and horsepower meet at 5250rpms (Of course.) Your actually begin to flatten out badly on power at about 5100rpms.

Thats judging from stock and bolt on dyno's that I have seen.
I dont know where the auto will shift at WOT but I am fairly sure it wont be 5250 or even 5100rpms.

Also how heavy is this guy? Are you heavier?
If you are the lighter guy and the fact that the auto is also heavier you could stand a chance if there is more than 50lbs difference between you two. Remember 100lbs = 1/10 a second (Roughly.)

To give you an idea.
99-00 hp is 190
01-04hp is 193

The mods he has are going to be close to this.
Tuner 15-20hp (91-93oc)
CAI 5hp
Exhaust 10hp depending on what kind of exhaust work was done.
So thats roughly 30-35hp more than you

Because of the number of different factors that goes into this race I would say it could be as simple as a drivers race.

Lets hope he is a fatass and you a twig

Also other factors that weight in are do both cars have the same gear ratio? Are you running the same wheel/tire combo, rim weight does add up quick and other things like stereo equip and what not.

Just go out the track and have fun

 

yea he hes got some biger size rims on his car while im running on stock 15"s and he also has somesort of sound system in his car with a sub in the trunk adding more weight possbily.

 

Hes still got you unless he sucks at driving