2000 Ready For Mods

The pulley will give you about 8-10 HP good for about 180.00 And you should be able to install it in about 2 hours if you have the right tools. You will need a new belt. I have it and everything works fine. It relives some stress that pumps put on your engine. A good place to start, then check out E-bay for a cold air intake about 75-100 bucks another 8 HP less than 1 hour. Than maybe some flowmasters about 250-350 for duals.Good luck

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A chip for our cars isn’t needed until you do a mod that warrants the need for a chip. Mods such as gear swaps, change tire/rim size, cam intake heads change, supercharger/turbo...ect. There's no gain if you get a chip now. They don't add much horsepower on their own and you would have to get it reprogrammed each time you make one of the above changes to your car. Chip will be one of the last things you do to your car.

The underdrive pulley it's self will cost you between 150 and 200 depending on where you can get it. Check out http://www.aspracing.com/ This company makes most pulleys for the sites you see selling them online. There's some useful info on them on that site. They explain how they work in simple terms and don't confuse you with the tech junk. Since you have a 2000 mustang you will need to check your stock pulley to see which style is on the car. That year was a crossover year and they put two different styles on the 2000's. This site explains how to tell which one is on your car http://www.miracerros.com/mustang/pulley.htm It's a fairly simple install if you have a torque wrench and patience.

For a cold air intake I would suggest you get on ebay and do a search. You will find hundreds of them for like 50 bucks. Just make sure it comes with a filter, two chrome hoses, one rubber O ring and some hose clamps. Install is fairly straight forward and should take the novice two hours max. Pretty easy to install. You can look around at more expensive intakes but they all do the same thing. So I can't justify paying a lot of money for a cold air intake.

To answer your warranty question. The best answer I can give is all warranty work is decided by the individual Ford dealerships. Some dealers encourage you to mod your mustang and get the most performance you can from your car. Others will make up stupid excuses so they don't have to do warranty work on your car. In the end it's all up to the dealer. Technically the only way they can void your warranty is if the modification that you did is the cause of your vehicle failure.

start out with exhasut, if you want a gt rear bumper get it also, its pretty cheap doesnt add much hp/tq but no bolt on really does, it helps the look and gives you a little more sound so its the best place to start.

after exhaust get an asp ud pulley and a cai from whom ever you want. after that if you have an automatic consider getting a shift kit (MANUAL VALVE BODY not an electronic POS)

wheels and tires should be one of the first apperance mods you do they totaly change the way the car looks and are pretty cheap, www.gefracing.com has a nice selection.

procharger and vortech are the only 2 brands to consider and procharger is better in my opinion, It comes with a nice intercooler i would build the motor first so you have a bullit proof bottom end and if you build the motor right you can make the car nearly if not as fast as the procharger can, then imagine taking off another 1-2 seconds on how fast it is with a blower. building a motor will probably cost about the same as the blower

.... before you do anything, get rid of pcv hoses and replace with valve filters.... both positive and negative ventilation hoses on valve covers. but do not remove pcv filter, just clamp over it.

after about 70,000 miles you will starting to hear engine knocking or pinging due to oil problems on rear spark plugs. You need to fix these problems first.

99 and 00 cars have valve cover problems which will severely cost you to fix later on unless you can prevent now.

with filters instead of hoses you will get a oil smell when you have your air on or what not when sitting still so thats another thing to look forward to lol

Having a 2000 stang I would stick to just the crank pulley. There's no need to go crazy on all your other accesories if you plan to get a supercharger down the road. Once you do upgrade to your supercharger you'll have to sell your underdrive pulley and put the stock pulley back on. A UD pulley would slow down your supercharger and that's not what you want to happen. So You should have no problem selling the pulley on the forms, It's a fairly simple and sought after modification.

As for the PCV delete. I'm still thinking of doing this my self. There's basicly two methods. The one i'm leaning twards involves putting a fuel filter inline on the PCV hose on the drivers side valve cover. The other method was mentioned above and from what i've heard you can smell oil burnning when your not moving or when you run your airconditioner inside the car. Not exactly what I want from my daily driver. Read around you'll see a lot about this on the forms.

... I tried fuel filter, and it didn't work. I also tried catch can and it didn't work either. It won't be as much oil going into the intake but still, you can see quite a bit of oil ...

You don't get smell if you keep the PCV valve. Because it adjust itself to open and close depends on pressure. If you remove completely (like most people do) then you will get a oil smell.