Me personally i think all the power down low is over rated in a car as light and torquey as a fox. I've driven foxes of every type and honestly, i think a vortech is the perfect happy medium between a turbo and a kennebell.
I don't remember offhand how much power my car makes down low, but it's quite a bit.
The thing is, while it can be a blast to drive, traction is really never going to hold on a normal basis on the street and it can be a little sketchy at times.
Forget about getting caught in the rain, probably be suicide.
Drag radials are a must, forget about regular tires.
It offers on demand acceleration at just about any power level and in every gear. During cruise, it means not downshifting for a hill or to pass (just a slight elevation on the boost gauge). It means coming out of the hole softly then laying it down hard. It means a lot of things that I could take great effort to try and describe and still not capture until you spent time in one.
Like any other power mod, it requires that someone be able to drive it. If you get in it and try ripping on just like your turbo car, you will likely kill it or yourself. It's not the kind of power that I would describe as 'better' or 'worse' than some other kind. It handles differently and requires a different set of driver characteristics to go with it.
...and no, I don't drive around one a set of DRs or slicks, because I have a Kenne Bell. It runs on Cooper Cobras... On the street... I'm still alive to talk about it.
Skinny pedal actuation is key as is the very broad torque curve on a Twin Screw.
Other than not having to downshift, the ability to get sideways pretty much anywhere and sounding great, i don't really know what all the power at 2500rpm really offers the average driver in a foxbody.
They make Prius and Hyundai for 'average drivers'. These people have no business in a 500+ torque Mustang. Hell, I probably have no business in one.
I also don't think it compares to newer cars, they are heavier, have traction, launch and stability control.
Of course it doesn't compare to newer cars. I won't even go down this road.
...and if you're not driving a car "that can be sketchy at times" then your car is boring. Even the V with all of it's, "heavier, have traction, launch and stability control" gets "sketchy" at times.
Make no mistake: I have a healthy respect for climbing into the Mustang and driving it on the street knowing full well what it's 'capable' of doing. I think that has gone a long way toward keeping the shiny side "up". It will scare the Bajesus out of you if you let it.
I watched some ahole come out of a stop light toward and on ramp, smoking tires the whole way into the guardrail. Wasn't even two weeks ago. I'm fairly certain that Honda (one of the new ones with all the plastic crap on it to make it look tough) wasn't equipped with a Kenne Bell.
