Hey gang... please pardon my username but I signed up several years ago when I was thinking about buying a 2.3 and building it up.
Long story short, my name's Steve and I've wanted a V8 Mustang since I was 10. I'm 23 now. My dad had 3 5.0 cars and a DSG '04 GT 5-speed and I knew someday it would be my turn...
Tuesday night, if all goes well with the loan and the DMV (that's a huge "if" LOL!) I'll be bringing home my Aztec Gold '97 GT. I know Aztec was a 1 year only color, does anyone know where I could locate the breakdown for how many of each color was produced?
Black cloth interior in good shape, 5-speed, 96K on the clock and the final purchase price is $4700. I think it's fair, as we all know the used Mustang market kinda plays by its own rules
It has Flowmaster 2-chambers, they're going to be taken off- I prefer the Dynomax system and I don't want any more cop attention than absolutely necessary. Car also has a short-throw shifter, strut-tower brace, a crappy K&N cone that's like 2 sizes too small for the engine, someone hacked the Mach 460 and put an Aiwa in its place
, and it's got a front-end vibration that I believe to be the tires- they're pretty worn (evenly, though) and the car had been sitting for several months. (Current owner has had it for ~3 years and it sat mroe often than not) Other than that, it ran real nice and smooth (and loud... Arrghh Flowmasters!!) Car also has 17" '95 Cobra R/'98 Cobra wheels. No evidence of a collision, clean Carfax, VIN tags in all the right places. Needs new fogs but that doesn't affect how the car runs... Car also has white-face gauges (I like especially against the black interior) and Cobra emblems everywhere. I'll be removing them for the rightful "GT 4.6" emblems.
I gotta say the clutch surprised me, compared to the 5.0 I learned to drive stick on it reminded me a bit of a Turbo Coupe- very forgiving and catches up high. No slippage between gears. Someone put gears in it at some point, at 60 MPH I saw ~1800 RPM so I'm guessing 3.27's or 3.55's.
So what does it need immediately? New tires and exhaust. And a tune-up. I don't plan to go mod-crazy but I doubt I'm the first to have said that lol- I'm just pumped about getting my first Mustang.
BTW, I know all about the plastic intake issues on the 4.6 cars, how bad are the Mustangs at blowing 'em up?
Looking forward to spending time here!
Long story short, my name's Steve and I've wanted a V8 Mustang since I was 10. I'm 23 now. My dad had 3 5.0 cars and a DSG '04 GT 5-speed and I knew someday it would be my turn...
Tuesday night, if all goes well with the loan and the DMV (that's a huge "if" LOL!) I'll be bringing home my Aztec Gold '97 GT. I know Aztec was a 1 year only color, does anyone know where I could locate the breakdown for how many of each color was produced?
Black cloth interior in good shape, 5-speed, 96K on the clock and the final purchase price is $4700. I think it's fair, as we all know the used Mustang market kinda plays by its own rules
It has Flowmaster 2-chambers, they're going to be taken off- I prefer the Dynomax system and I don't want any more cop attention than absolutely necessary. Car also has a short-throw shifter, strut-tower brace, a crappy K&N cone that's like 2 sizes too small for the engine, someone hacked the Mach 460 and put an Aiwa in its place
, and it's got a front-end vibration that I believe to be the tires- they're pretty worn (evenly, though) and the car had been sitting for several months. (Current owner has had it for ~3 years and it sat mroe often than not) Other than that, it ran real nice and smooth (and loud... Arrghh Flowmasters!!) Car also has 17" '95 Cobra R/'98 Cobra wheels. No evidence of a collision, clean Carfax, VIN tags in all the right places. Needs new fogs but that doesn't affect how the car runs... Car also has white-face gauges (I like especially against the black interior) and Cobra emblems everywhere. I'll be removing them for the rightful "GT 4.6" emblems.I gotta say the clutch surprised me, compared to the 5.0 I learned to drive stick on it reminded me a bit of a Turbo Coupe- very forgiving and catches up high. No slippage between gears. Someone put gears in it at some point, at 60 MPH I saw ~1800 RPM so I'm guessing 3.27's or 3.55's.
So what does it need immediately? New tires and exhaust. And a tune-up. I don't plan to go mod-crazy but I doubt I'm the first to have said that lol- I'm just pumped about getting my first Mustang.
BTW, I know all about the plastic intake issues on the 4.6 cars, how bad are the Mustangs at blowing 'em up?
Looking forward to spending time here!
