sorry bud but the weight difference isnt that much,numbers are numbers if it feels like this or that it doesnt really make a diff,obviously you dont know enough about them and that is the exact reason your bashing them.a little more research than magazine knowledge.
Talk about bias, you drive a 96 mustang.
A notch weighs 250lbs+ less than a 96 up mustang, not sure why you don't think that's alot, but it is.
And a 96 mustang makes about the same rwhp.
Numbers aren't just numbers, considering we are talking about two different cars, they give the power to weight ratio in this case.
There's guys in bone stock foxes run low 14's all day, compared to high 14's low 15's in a stock 96.
96-98 sohc cars are the redheaded stepchilds of the mustang world, and they don't hold value, you know why? Nobody wants them.
Goto ebay, lookup notches and then lookup 96 mustangs, they are worth the same. Too bad the original price on the 96 was much higher.
I could deal with a 99+sohc car, at least you don't need to do a headswap to get the car even with older cars. And i like the styling better, which is not to say i didn't like the styling on 94-98, because i thought they were decent.
And god forbid you have a stock non PI automatic, in that case you should stick to racing toyota camrys and ford taurus's.
Don't take it so personal, the 96 mustang just isn't really a good starting point to do a build up on.
The car falls under the "anything can be made fast" catergory, and just because you can, doesn't mean it's a good idea.
Then again, i only get my information from magazines, so what the hell do i know.
I used to have a 95gt, I beat a couple fox 5.0's with it, I beat even a 99-04 in it, it wasnt slow or pathetic either, my lx 5.0 right now is so slow its not funny my 86gt is a different story all together, but go talk to bk_cauley his 96gt will put the beatdown on lots of ls1's, and 5.0's, hell and it will put the speedo striaght down, if needbe.
...lol.
