The Journey To Find A Fox. Found A Cobra Instead.

Raceland is a bargain set of coilovers. They're not bad, by any means, just don't quite offer what a higher dollar set has.

That grey car seems a little pricey.

I worry when I see something deleted, there are correct ways to delete things and then there's the way most people do things.

If it were a 50k mile car, maybe I would look more.

Tubbster66 said:

I am ignorant when it comes to these cars. I assume you mean the smog delete? I need education!

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Yeah, the smog pump, etc.

It's really not beneficial removing it, maybe to declutter the engine bay is about the best reason to do it.

It normally is deleted from a belief that it'll unlock extra horsepower, or there is a problem with the system so people get rid of it instead of figuring out the problem.

One problem when deleted is that if you still have original catalytic converters, they'll plug up. They need to have the air pump in order for them to work properly. You can put in a new exhaust system though and either delete the cc's or add modern cc's that don't need the addition of extra oxygen.

I've seen enough already of when people remove factory things from their fox mustangs to know that most people don't take the time to learn how to do it properly and neatly.

Heck, just the aftermarket stereo rewiring that I've seen is enough to make me shake my head.

So I fairly automatically think when I see something has been deleted that the worked was hacked out. Kind of a guilty until proven innocent thing. Lots of kids have owned these mustangs because they're so cheap and they cut their teeth in working on a car with those poor mustangs.

@Tubbster66

That gray Fox is pretty clean and mostly tastefully modified IMO. The Anderson N-41 cam is pretty common I believe. I see nothing wrong with deleting the smog pump and lines that run to the back of the heads while deleting the factory cats so long as you don't need them for smog compliance. A lot of us do that as soon as we are smog exempt and we start digging in to the engine. I tossed mine out while I was in there installing my headers and ran a shorter serp belt. Mine thermactor lines were clogged from carbon build up at the back of the heads, no surprise for an untouched 27 year old car.