Yet another ? from me...

Alright another question from me guys lol. I know it is a newb question but I want to ask this specifically because I couldn't find a straight answer in the search.

I was wondering with full bolt ons, will a 2v GT run a decent 13 second time on the quarter mile? Things like CAI, TB, plenum, U/D pullies, full exhaust, and some suspension work like upper and lower control arms, sub frame connectors?

I'm just curious because I know that doing minor bolt ons really doesn't seem to do much for our cars but I was wondering what if someone had a Mustang that had almost every bolt on part on their car and what are the results... I know the common answer is to just save your money and buy a super charger or get nitrous but I know this is dumb but I have that feeling of wanting to do something to the car every month instead of just saving for a year lol, I know patience is a virtue...

Guess I feel that way because my buddy with a 1995 Mustang automatic 5.0 is doing heads an cam swap on it this summer, and I know my days of beating him are numbered... He already has 4.10's, cold air intake, and full exhaust and its a drivers race from a stop between us but I usually am able to pull 2 or so cars on him if I launch right btw this is in Mexico of course.. Im just curious so I was wondering if a fully bolt on 2v GT will benefit much at all..


Btw I know its the most logical thing to set aside 300 bucks a month and just save up to get a supercharger..

bigbird04 said:

If you are sure you will go forced induction via supercharger ,I would concentrate on exhaust. If you put more air in you got to get it out. Then suspension gotta put it to the ground. Think of an engine as an air pump. I got a buddy at work that put 6 grand in a Mach 1 and made 348rwhp NA . His intake seems to be the bottleneck now. He can get more air out than in iguess

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I would like to go supercharged route, but I'm thinking by the time I have the money after college my car is going to have a lot of mileage on it... Its at 105k right now and I'm guessing in 2-3 years when I graduate the car will be at about 125-135,000 miles on it at the rate I drive it... I'm just worried that adding a supercharger on a high mileage car is just asking for trouble... Of course if I do get a supercharger I would be fairly content with 350hp car and able to run high 12's at the track. I wouldn't add more than 6-8lbs of boost on the stock bottom end to make super high hp numbers, because of the stock motors limitations and mileage... Also I tend to take good care of it so if I keep up the maintenance maybe it wont be so bad with the mileage..

slayerripkdc said:

If you are content with mid to low 13's than yes full bolt ons with long tubes should get you there! Add cams in to the mix and you should be knocking on the 12 second door. With practice of course

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To be honest I feel that a DD 13 sec car is still quick imo, nowadays most cars from the factory run 13's easy and I would like my car to keep up with most newer cars. I will crunch all the numbers on the prices of all the bolt on parts that I would buy I guess and compare to the supercharger to get an idea of how much $ its going to take... I did look into the heads and cams option but its at about 3,000 bucks for them...
Still I hate having this feeling of wanting to doing all bolt ons even though I know that the payoff is not enough but for some reason I want to try it out and see for myself lol...

On another forum I am on, one of the members had bolt on 2v GT and got it to run 13.5's with a good set of drag tires or slicks...
What he had for mods were
-Mac Prochamber
-Magnaflow magnapack catback
-BBK CAI
-Stack Racing throttle body and plenum
-SCT Bama tunes
- MGW Short throw shifter

Which I thought was decent for a n/a 2v... Mine right now I ran a 14.2 but I feel with more practice on my launches I can get into the 13s...

Kinda driving me crazy lol. I guess I should just not go to car meets or the track to not get the modding bug and save the $ lol..

Not bad, my buddy with only an o/r x pipe, K&N cold air intake on his 2000 GT was able to hit a 13.9 at the track. You just have to be really good on the launch, which I still suck at. I ran a 14.2 with the mods in my sig compared to him..