T.B and pulleys worth it on near stock 5.0?

[russ1979]

so i want to add a little more power but i'm not ready to tear in to the Eng yet.
the current mods are : alum drive shaft, 3.73 gears,bbk cold air, bbk headers, bbk off road H-pipe, and flowmaster muffs. and the 15 min tune up.

what do you guys think of adding a larger t.b. and a pulley set to a near stock stang?
is there any thing that i missed?

here is a few photos:

 

[Mustang5L5]

Pullies yes, if you can make them work without charging or cooling issues.

TB no...if you have the stock intake. The lower is a huge restriction. Look into a manifold upgrade, or sending out your lower to Tmss for some porting. You can prob pick up a lower for cheap and send that out and then swap them. You'll get a bigger SOTP feel from that than a TB.

Of course, mods usually work better together, so a 65mm TB might be good at that point with exhaust mods

 

[faststang90]

i would do the pulleys also a good air filter. on my first mustang it was a 86 with 3:73s, stock h pipe with the cats out, a drive shaft, a good shifter the car ran a best of 13.40. i ran the race crank pulley with the newer alt. i think it was of a 94-95 car and i did not have any problems

 

[Tanus]

pullies and a K&N filter.

save up and upgrade to eplorer/cobra intake and 65 TB.

if you want a low 12/high 11 ride, save for a while and get the trick fow or systamax engine package.

 

[russ1979]

it has a k/n now with the bbk cold air kit maybe i left that out.

 

[skunk21]

it has a k/n now with the bbk cold air kit maybe i left that out.

Good for looks ( I have a mac fender mount for the looks) but the best cai is the stock air box, silencer removed with a k&n drop in. Is your filter mounted in the engine bay or inside the fender? About the TB and pullies, you aren't goingto really feel the power of the pullies IMHO and just like Mike stated chances are you are going to have cooling/charging issues, it just seems most people do. A slightly larger TB on a stock intake, you might feel a slight better throttle responce more so at the mid/upper range when the butterfly is open just do to the larger opening but it isn't going to anything to right home about and not enough to warrant spending the money. I think you pretty much tapped all you are going to get out of the stock motor, you are staring at the bottle necks. you could steal some more by going to an electric fan & a 3g upgrade and getting rid of the drag from the fan clutch. If you want a bigger TB start looking at the intake, like ported lower or better yet, explorer/ real cobra that will net you some gains and then look at the heads later and maybe a mass air conversion.

 

[apollo12]

I'd do the pulleys and a K&N filter, then a explorer intake or cobra, then bigger air meter,65 TB/ EGR spacer.

 

[GSP393]

I'll 2nd the electric fan. Noticeable differance for very little work.

 

[Mustang5L5]

I think on a stock E7 headed car, a Tmoss ported lower intake would net better results than an explorer intake.

The explorer will net you gains, but tends to shift the power curve up slightly. The ported stock lower will flow pretty much the same as the explorer, but will retain more low end torque as it keeps the power band lower.

However, i think that's a little bit deeper conversation than the OP had in mind when asking about pullies and TB;s