Best bang for your buck Mustang upgrade
 

Ok guys we have a lot of new people come onto this forum asking many questions on what cheap mods they can do for little money. Lets help these people out, if you see something that is not on here please post.
This will include most of everything including removing a factory engine piece aka intake and spending a few hours on it doing some porting for better flow, and efficacy.

This thread will cover all Mustangs 2.3, 3.8, 5.0, 4.6......
Please specify what engine your mod will be for.

Ill throw some small ideas out there off the top of my head

All models unless specified
- Under drive pulleys
- Cold air intakes (BBK or MAC)
- Long tube/Short tube Headers (BBK) 3.8, 4.6, & 5.0
- 70mm or 75mm BBK Throttle body 4.6, 5.0
- Wet or Dry Nitrous kit 4.6, 5.0
- Bump timing from 10*ADV to 14* ADV and run 93/94 OCT

This will get the ball rolling.... :tup

are there Under drive pulleys for the 3.8/3.9 L engine ?

Lots of polish/wax as you will slide through the wind better:laughhard Sorry I could not resist:banghead:

lol, but the added weight of 100 coats of wax might slow you down more than you'd gain. Speaking of weight, a FREE upgrade is to shed some weight on the cars. ANd a nitrous kit is definately the best bang for the buck. There is also the 40.00 electric fan from the wreckers for the 5.0 (off a mark 7, or a taurus), a 3g alternator for the 5.0, If you are feeling spry for your 8.8 you can find 4.10 or 3.73 gears in trucks or explorer's fairly cheap. Aluminum driveshaft from an AWD aerostar (also from the wreckers). Bump your timing.

Thats all i can think of off the top of my head. Most of this is wrecker stuff that can be had fairly cheap.

yes there is. V6 Mustang Stuff | V6 Mustang Performance Parts and Accessories has a lot for.. well us sixers:tup

lol even i have to admit that was funny

99-04 V6 (3.8/3.9)
UDP
Wet Shot Nitrous
Headers
T-loc w/ gears (not Hp adder but will move quicker)
CAI
a GOOD clutch
alum. Flywheel
Ford aerostar van intake swap (yea from a van.. :LOL: )

94-98 3.8L
same as above plus
split port swap
OR
M90 Supercharger
**both the split port swap and the M90 will give you the same HP...:bleh:

After that you're moving into the $$$

Stroker's
P&P heads
Supercharger/Turbo
8.8" rear end swap (looking for IRS personally)
and of course V8 swaps... (not recomended)

I think most here know that waxing is your first,mod,and the biggest bang for the buck in the bling factor!!:biggrin:

The best bang for the buck in my opinion would be...
gears,4.10's for the 4.6 crowd,and 3.73's for the 5.0 ,and V6 crowd
drop in K&N filter
mid pipe,and cat back
shifter for the stick guys
underdrive pulleys
and for that aggressive stance,a set of lowering spring wont hurt the pocket book. :tup

agreed with the shifter/springs
but i always thought 4.10 was for auto (4.6/3.8/5.0) and 3.73 for stick.. didn't matter what displacement??:confused:

05+ Mustang GT - one of the best mods is a CAI+tune (mostly the tune but they come as a combo usually). You won't gain sick horsepower like nitrous but you will gain a few ponies for sure. Plus it looks great under the hood.

Killing the throttle delay, better shift points and firmer shifts is definitely where it's at. It literally felt like a completely different car after I uploaded my 91 octane torque tune from bamachips. The other upside is that it's so easy to install a monkey could do it.

2005 4.0 L V6 (2005 Only) do the coolant pipe delete. On the 2005 4.0l V6 Mustang Ford thought it might be good to run coolant through the throttle body which heats the TB incredibly when all you are trying to do is cool the air not heat it.

Remove the coolant lines from the TB and use one of them to create a loop back. This will allow your TB to run many degrees cooler thus helping with that Pony Power.

Oh the best part is this mod is free!!

lose the spare, best gas u can find, no fat chicks sticker, hit the gym yourself.