You ever driven one??? I said the same thing about them till i bought mine,you do free mods to them such as up the fp,boost and timing and they will give alot of cars a good run. I ran a couple 5.O's in my town that had exhaust and gears and i would always pull on them and take em by a car or so from stop and go.
Yup....two as a matter of fact. And a one late-70's Turbo GT to boot.
If I drove it new in 1984-1986 and had only cars of the last 10-years to compare it to, I might be somewhat impressed. But by today’s standards they're kind tame and unimpressive to be honest.
I will admit, for a stock car of its time, it did handle fairly well, but nothing comparable to anything as of late with any performance orientation. Also, once you finally get the turbo spooled up its got a nice little pull to it (for a tubo-4) but beyond that it pails in comparison to any GT or specialty Mustang produced after it.
Ride - sucked bad, but it was to be expected with the sport tuned
suspension
Brakes - marginally better than your standard '87-'93 Fox GT, but still no more impressive than most basic economy cars now a days with a 4-wheel disk set up.
Power - ok when it finally came on, but the turbo lag while you waited for the needle to drag itself half way across the tach in the mean time was unbearable (at least for someone used to V8 torque)
Style - Sure I guess it has a quirky personality of it's own, but it's as dated as any other car of the 80's now. Although I do remember really liking the off set hood scoop as a kid.
My biggest annoyance about the car is that anyone who doesn’t have women sized feet is constantly getting their feet caught up in the pedals. It got really annoying.....fast!!! Forget about trying to drive the car with work boots on.
Yeah i dunno about that either. My Merkur will put a hurtin on a stock 5.0
damn stright,turbo 4's make some torque ,merkur for the win!!!!
So what are we comparing here? Modified turbo cars to stock GT's? I mean really guys...what did your cars run stock from the factory....high-16's....low-17's?
That’s no where near enough gumption to hang with your average V8 Fox body. Stock or not!
Sure they make a little power after you modify them, but so what....so does any car? Hell, my 3,900lb Mercury Cougar will stomp any Mustang out of the factory short of an '03 Cobra, but I'm not under the impression that I didn't have to change nearly everything about the car to get it there.
You show me a dyno sheet from just those mods. My buddy had far more than that into his SVO including a larger turbo and methanol injection and he was only able to manage 308rwhp. Even all that, if the car racked off high-13's he was lucky. And it's street manners suffered worse than before. Torque means nothing if it's all made at peek figures my friend. Great for rolling starts on the freeway, but not a recipe for a fun, all around car.
