200MPH Mustang GT

[CraigJ]

MB140 said:

CraigJ, will you be attending the Mustang gathering on the 2nd May at Donnington by any chance.

Should be a huge gathering. My wife and I are going in her mustang.

I doubt it sorry.

[CraigJ]

marksx said:

This thread is fantastic. Love the car, something local for me to keep an eye (or ear) out for.

No fair saying how good it sounds without posting a vid btw

Hopefully going to do a short video soon. Just need somewhere quiet and dry weather.

[MB140]

CraigJ said:

MB140 said:

CraigJ, will you be attending the Mustang gathering on the 2nd May at Donnington by any chance.

Should be a huge gathering. My wife and I are going in her mustang.

I doubt it sorry.

No worries, if you were going to be there I would have liked to have had a nosey around your car.

[iacabu]

CraigJ said:

Love the new wheels

[650spider]

Dogbash said:

Thats pretty impressive to beat the Mclaren 650's and be close to a 720S as I know they are an absolute rocket.

Been considering supercharging my mustang although I've been looking at whipple kits. Just concerned about having all that power and not being able to get it onto the tarmac.

Andrew

I am loving this thread...you are a proper petrolhead nutter!

I have a 650 and its superbike fast, so for you to take scalp it is outstanding...

[CraigJ]

650spider said:

I am loving this thread...you are a proper petrolhead nutter!

I have a 650 and its superbike fast, so for you to take scalp it is outstanding...

Thanks lol

I'm kinda using them as a bench mark now.

When i was there most of the Mclaren's and the other AWD super cars were using launch control as they were getting some traction. I had none. I know this as one of the other owners came up to me asking " what the fk is in that thing" He had watched me set off and commented that i just looked to be setting off to the shops as i just pulled away steady and slowly built up speed.

One thing I didn't know that day was my car still had a hard coded limiter built in. So even if i had traction of the line i would have still stopped at 186mph. Still in the process of getting around this. Last tune file i got to remove it stopped the use of reverse lol. So a bit more to work on with that.

[CraigJ]

Finally got the Mishimoto oil cooler fitted. Had to do a few mods to accommodate superchager install but went in quite straight forward.

stock oil cooler


where it came from


and mishimoto blank plate


sandwich plate


fitted


The cooler itself


nice dirty under shot



Next up is the meth kit. Will be fitting a AEM kit and the snow performance sandwich plate and anti siphon solenoid. Hoping to get this on this week.



And just a dirty pic of the car

[Krikkit]

Meth kit just dropped in, brilliant.

Car looks and sounds immense.

[windymissile]

What do you have planned for your top speed run? I think I am in your area and want to do one too.

[CraigJ]

Got a start on the meth install. All hardware now in the boot (trunk for the yanks)

test fit


all in.


need to run the meth line to the engine bay and wire it all in. Hopefully tomorrow.

[CraigJ]

windymissile said:

What do you have planned for your top speed run? I think I am in your area and want to do one too.

I will be doing the top speed run with https://straightliners.events/index.php/2020-calen... £150 to have a go and you should get about 6 runs. depends how busy it is.

next event at Elvington airfield is March 17th. Think i'm going to wait until April or May for a better chance of dry weather and slightly warmer temps.

[CraigJ]

Krikkit said:

Meth kit just dropped in, brilliant.

Car looks and sounds immense.

Thanks

[windymissile]

CraigJ said:

I will be doing the top speed run with https://straightliners.events/index.php/2020-calen... £150 to have a go and you should get about 6 runs. depends how busy it is.

next event at Elvington airfield is March 17th. Think i'm going to wait until April or May for a better chance of dry weather and slightly warmer temps.

Cheers. I'm only 45 mins away from Elvington so will be doing one this year. It's a lottery with the weather though. Think I'll have a look at the April dates.

[CraigJ]

Right, it was Dyno day today to see if the winter work has paid off.

We had a few issues to start with, the dyno packs had been switched around so we had to swap them back. AET have 4 hub dynos, 2 are rated at 500lbft and the other 2 at 1000lbft. We had the 500's on by mistake. Then the battery went flat, then a wheel nut issue that was sorted by a quick trip to ford just up the road.

Finally we were able to do some pulls.

On the last dyno run the car pulled 638whp but the belt was slipping and power was dying off at about 6400rpm. A 2.8inch griptec has sorted the slip issue.

Today the car pulled from 688whp, 694 and 698 and managed a best of 704whp. Torque was from 610lbft up to 627lbft at the hubs. So the cheap ebay headers managed a nice gain of 66whp. The tune hasn't changed from the last time so this was a natural increase from having a free flowing exhaust system.



Elvington will be April i think now for a 200mph attempt. March is just looking to be too cold and wet to attempt.

[Carlos24]

What an awesome project this has been to follow, I quite fancy having a go at one of these top speed events as well although my jag is a puny 560bhp compared to your monster!!

[scottos]

Cracking result, i bet you're chuffed with that arent you?

[AmosMoses]

Ooof, 704 at the wheels? That some serious power, love it.

[Greg_D]

i'm really enjoying this thread, well done...

i never realised how highly rated the coyote motor was.

In the US, there are well understood, reliable, mad power packages available.

I'm almost tempted.... great car

[Janosh]

Very impressive numbers, even more so considering you've not opened the engine!

I've been driving HSV's for years and the LS2 & LS3 motors are on the absolute limit of the stock internals at that sort of power and would also need a decent cam to get there.

[CraigJ]

Thanks for the nice comments. means a lot.

Carlos24:
560bhp will still be a lot of fun on the mile.

Scottos:
Very chuffed, I was expecting around 670-680whp so hitting 704whp was a huge surprise.

AmosMoses:
Cheers

Greg_D:
The Coyotes are a very tunable motor. twin turbo cars on E85 are hitting 1000whp on stock internals. The big issue for the Coyote are the pistons. they like to break ringlands.

You can buy a built coyote from Ford performance with forged rods and pistons and a 9.5:1 compression for about 10k dollars.