Hi all.
I picked up a clean 92 notch 5 speed 5.0 about 3 weeks ago. Nicest I’ve seen in a decade.
2 owner car. 85,000 miles. I am planning to weekend drive it and use it on our local time attack road course.
I took it to my local mustang specialty shop and has 3 baseline pulls done... came up at 169whp. I asked the shop owner why it would be so low as I expected closer to 200whp.
They kept it overnight and compression tested it, did plugs, wires, fuel filter, oil change and air filter (K&N drop in). He told me everything checked out really good and explained to me his dyno is calibrated and his numbers are SAE smoothing factor 5 and that a lot of dyno operators use STD or uncorrected which inflates the numbers and hasn’t been the acceptable unit of measure since 1988.
So I asked for a few recommendations on what to do next at my budget and he said BBK catless H-Pipe, magnaflow catback, BBK pullies. So I went ahead with this.
Car made 184.8whp.
I feel surprised by the low numbers. He told me the aluminum cold air intakes are junk and will lose me horsepower on my track days.
My only other plans I guess are 3.73 gears, and shorty headers.
What do y’all think of my numbers?
Car goes better now and sounds great btw.
I picked up a clean 92 notch 5 speed 5.0 about 3 weeks ago. Nicest I’ve seen in a decade.
2 owner car. 85,000 miles. I am planning to weekend drive it and use it on our local time attack road course.
I took it to my local mustang specialty shop and has 3 baseline pulls done... came up at 169whp. I asked the shop owner why it would be so low as I expected closer to 200whp.
They kept it overnight and compression tested it, did plugs, wires, fuel filter, oil change and air filter (K&N drop in). He told me everything checked out really good and explained to me his dyno is calibrated and his numbers are SAE smoothing factor 5 and that a lot of dyno operators use STD or uncorrected which inflates the numbers and hasn’t been the acceptable unit of measure since 1988.
So I asked for a few recommendations on what to do next at my budget and he said BBK catless H-Pipe, magnaflow catback, BBK pullies. So I went ahead with this.
Car made 184.8whp.
I feel surprised by the low numbers. He told me the aluminum cold air intakes are junk and will lose me horsepower on my track days.
My only other plans I guess are 3.73 gears, and shorty headers.
What do y’all think of my numbers?
Car goes better now and sounds great btw.