Shelby front fascia installed

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06-24-2008, 05:25 PM

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NocturnalV6

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RE: Shelby front fascia installed

Hot damn Sally is back. Tell me if I am mistaken but I believe D&D performance offers the 6 speed swap for the 6er???...But yea, many are going with the Shelby look...I will be picking up the CS6 looks here soon

06-24-2008, 05:52 PM

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RE: Shelby front fascia installed

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Hot damn Sally is back. Tell me if I am mistaken but I believe D&D performance offers the 6 speed swap for the 6er???...But yea, many are going with the Shelby look...I will be picking up the CS6 looks here soon

D&D has a swap kit for the GT. I don't believe they have one for the 4.0

06-24-2008, 08:32 PM

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RE: Shelby front fascia installed

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man o man that looks awesome....did anybody notice the supercharger????

tell us about it....is this a 6xer?

Yes, it's a 4.0L V6.

It has an X-Charger installed (did that myself as well) with the Hipo option (CAI and 2.8" pulley) I just bought a used Bamachips "Wet-X" water/methanol injection system, so I'll be adding that soon.

Plans further down the road call for replacing the factory 5-spd manual with a 6-spd, and adding the intercooler rig for the "X" when it's available.

Who makes a 6 speed transmission for out 4.0s?

06-24-2008, 09:16 PM

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Torch_Vert

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RE: Shelby front fascia installed

One of the members (on another forum that it is verboten to speak of here) has developed an adapter plate to mate the 4.0L to the TR6060 6-spd as used in the GT500, and has had his car up and running with it for a couple months. The plate does require a bit of clearencing of the back of the engine w/ a die grinder, but it is very do-able. The major sticking point for most people will be the cost of the TR6060 (several grand)

06-24-2008, 09:55 PM

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CKurello

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RE: Shelby front fascia installed

torch, did you paint your radiator behind the grille? and if you did, what paint did you use? i was considering a blackout grille from CDC and i heard that it looks waaaaaay better with a darker background to work with

06-24-2008, 10:57 PM

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RE: Shelby front fascia installed

dude ur car looks amazing!!

06-25-2008, 06:32 AM

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torch, did you paint your radiator behind the grille? and if you did, what paint did you use? i was considering a blackout grille from CDC and i heard that it looks waaaaaay better with a darker background to work with

You can bet your backside I did

The GT500 grille, like many others (the billet one from the Shelby GT's spring to mind) REALLY shows the radiator support/hood latch area through the grille and looks freaking horrible unless the stuff behind is blacked out imho (especially on bright colors like Torch Red, White, Screaming Yellow, Grabber Orange, etc).

I taped things off and painted the support, face of the radiator, and basically everything behind there with a Krylon matte black designed for BBQ grilled and other items that see weather exposure and heat.

This should give you a better idea re: what I did (those foglight wires I didn't worry about taping, because they were getting yanked out and replaced):