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Overheat and pony lackin power

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Over the pass week my stang has been overheating, not to the redline, but almost just hanging out there. Once the car warms up, all power is gone. When I sit at a red light or something sometimes the car just shuts off and then when I smash down on the gas pedal, it just bogs down like it is going to quit. On the interstate after about 2 minutes of running the temperature goes back to normal, but the power still seems to be gone. When I get off the interstate the overheat problem comes back. When trying to redline after it warms up, it wont even redline. I will get to about 5100 RPM and it will just start making this sound like its dying for air or something. Tell me what's wrong!! Whenever just starting the car up from a cold engine, it will burn the damn tires off with ease. Like I mentioned I have no problem with it until it warms up.

95 Mustang GT, Mostly stock with cold air intake, flowmaster exhaust, auto tranny
 

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Compression check time....

Someone should move this to tech, so he'll get some responses.
 

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Does you fan come on at all when it gets above the half way mark? Try pulling codes and seeing if both fan speeds cycle on and off when you do it.
 
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