12.8s, reliability, cornering ability

Absolutely agree. I'm with you 100% on the the though of all power adder Mustangs for the money invested should be breaking into the low-12/high-11-second zone. And for the most part, I'm betting about 90% of them actually have that kind of potential.

I've found that far to many owners are too quick to blame the car itself, or even one particular component of the car rather than shifting the blame to the driver or their entire set up in general. Everyone wants to start fiddling with their tuners, swapping out tires, changing pulleys or upping jet sizes to correct the problem. I mean...sure, everyone has some bugs to work out at times, but out of almost every post I see on the subject, the last component of the equation the owner tries to improve upon when low ET's occur, is the one sitting in the drivers seat.

I personally plan to go as fast as I possibly can on street tires with my new car while working out the bugs in the combination before I start worrying about how fast it will go with a new pulley or on slicks. I haven't got a very common set up as far as 4.6L's are concerned, so it should be an interesting journey to the finish line.