Picked this up about a month ago:
Got lucky on FB marketplace. Was halfheartedly hunting a decent 5 spd 01-04 GT and ran across this one. I caught it right after it was posted for sale. The only picture posted was a picture of a printed flyer - you know the kind where you tear off a piece at the bottom with the phone number? Yeah, I'm old.
Full disclosure: I've never owned a SN95. I fixed up / flipped quite a few Mustangs over the years, but never owned any Mustang for any length of time until I bought a new '17 V6 6pd back in '17 for my daily driver after test driving another S550. Gears, headers, tune, etc - all while serving as my daily. Ended up making a bit of money trading it. Bought a new '19 GT 6 speed. Before COVID. 5% under invoice. Transferred my chassis mods from the '17 (mainly bracing but WELL worth the effort), wheels and tires and I drove it.
The Coyote engine in the '19 was just good. Ended up with a Ford Performance Power pack because I wasn't looking for HP peak gains or even quicker ET's - I wanted some solid gains in the low / mid range where I'd feel them everyday when I drove it. It did that. Drove that for 3+ years then a dealer bought it outright for more than I paid for it brand new. So eventually I ended up here.
Quite of ironic since a lot of SN95 owners are doing Coyote swaps LOL.
Back to the '04. I've always loved this color. Don't know why. I remember when they came out. An old buddy of mine bought one off the lot, because of this color. The '04 was located in MD, I'm in VA, but this was a NY car all it's life. The owners, in their 70s, were planning to retire to MD. They had bought a house there several years ago. The guy bought this car with 50K on it back in '08. He ended up having a serious medical issue and stopped driving the car. It stayed covered / garaged. It was his weekend cruiser toy. When I picked it up it had 96K on the odometer. 15+ years for 46K miles - but it's actually less than that.
Whomever bought this car originally got every factory option, including the Mach 1000 system, which works btw. They also modded the car. Whomever did the work did solid work. I've yet to see any mickey mouse stuff, which I'm used to on older cars.
At one point they had a Vortec on it - the OEM pan was tapped / plumbed for the oil cooler line. I brought it up the owner when I saw it, he said his mechanic had pointed it out to him well after he'd purchased it. I'm guessing that same owner installed mid-length headers- which after the help of this forum, almost 100% positive they are Bassanu headers, running into a catted Bassini X pipe, into a Bassini cat back.
Interior is damn near perfect. Body has no rot. Strut towers and underneath is ridiculously clean. This is the worse part of the car I've found so far (there is a bit of rust on the body seam under the battery tray, will pull that apart eventually and address it)
It's just surface scale.
Engine appearance wise, regardless of previous mods, is stock. Stock air box, TB, plenum etc. Runs smooth, no timing chain noise, pulls great to redline no problems at all so far.
Took it by my buddy's shop to get inspected. Known him for years, we put it on the lift. Even he's impressed how clean it is.
Eibach springs were added years ago as well. Aftermarket clutch quadrant, cable and firewall adjuster. With a seriously stiff clutch pedal. I was used to hydraulic, so I figured it was just me.
Ended up replacing both original ball joints with Moog (ripped boots, no noise, but definitely loose) and both outer tie rods. Went ahead and replaced what was likely original rotors (it had Motorcraft pads with A LOT of pad left, but they were so old they backing plates were coming unglued). Went with coated Raybestos rotors and Powerstop ceramic pads. Bled / flushed the brakes system. Rears aren't horrible but I'll be addressing them before too long, they appear original as well.
Back to the mileage. This car had 4.10 gears put in it EARLY in it's life. I'm guessing right around the time headers, Vortech etc were done. I'm also guessing when the first owner pulled the Vortech they also pulled the tune for the SC and the gears. So the previous owner started didn't put 46K on the car as the speedometer was 25% fast when I got it and had been the 15+ years he drove it. So in reality car has @ 85k on it LOL.
That's the first thing I ordered, a SCTx4 to correct the gears / speedo. Got that done and added the canned 93 octane SCT tune as well- why not. Car runs great.
Currently need to do some stuff of my son's car and the '13 SS Camaro ragtop (sorry the 6.2 LS is a fun engine) we just picked up as my wife's daily driver so I'm figuring out what's next for the '04.
I did replace the old adjustable clutch cable with a Steeda adjustable. Clutch is MUCH better. Got a bit of T/O bearing noise when clutch is disengaged, so I'll like try to get some grease in there. MGW shifter is on the way. The aftermarket shifter in there now is okay, but after using MGW once, I'll never use anything else. Also grabbed some AC Delco Synchromesh for a fresh fill on the TR3650 when the shifter gets installed.
Got lucky on FB marketplace. Was halfheartedly hunting a decent 5 spd 01-04 GT and ran across this one. I caught it right after it was posted for sale. The only picture posted was a picture of a printed flyer - you know the kind where you tear off a piece at the bottom with the phone number? Yeah, I'm old.
Full disclosure: I've never owned a SN95. I fixed up / flipped quite a few Mustangs over the years, but never owned any Mustang for any length of time until I bought a new '17 V6 6pd back in '17 for my daily driver after test driving another S550. Gears, headers, tune, etc - all while serving as my daily. Ended up making a bit of money trading it. Bought a new '19 GT 6 speed. Before COVID. 5% under invoice. Transferred my chassis mods from the '17 (mainly bracing but WELL worth the effort), wheels and tires and I drove it.
The Coyote engine in the '19 was just good. Ended up with a Ford Performance Power pack because I wasn't looking for HP peak gains or even quicker ET's - I wanted some solid gains in the low / mid range where I'd feel them everyday when I drove it. It did that. Drove that for 3+ years then a dealer bought it outright for more than I paid for it brand new. So eventually I ended up here.
Quite of ironic since a lot of SN95 owners are doing Coyote swaps LOL.
Back to the '04. I've always loved this color. Don't know why. I remember when they came out. An old buddy of mine bought one off the lot, because of this color. The '04 was located in MD, I'm in VA, but this was a NY car all it's life. The owners, in their 70s, were planning to retire to MD. They had bought a house there several years ago. The guy bought this car with 50K on it back in '08. He ended up having a serious medical issue and stopped driving the car. It stayed covered / garaged. It was his weekend cruiser toy. When I picked it up it had 96K on the odometer. 15+ years for 46K miles - but it's actually less than that.
Whomever bought this car originally got every factory option, including the Mach 1000 system, which works btw. They also modded the car. Whomever did the work did solid work. I've yet to see any mickey mouse stuff, which I'm used to on older cars.
At one point they had a Vortec on it - the OEM pan was tapped / plumbed for the oil cooler line. I brought it up the owner when I saw it, he said his mechanic had pointed it out to him well after he'd purchased it. I'm guessing that same owner installed mid-length headers- which after the help of this forum, almost 100% positive they are Bassanu headers, running into a catted Bassini X pipe, into a Bassini cat back.
Interior is damn near perfect. Body has no rot. Strut towers and underneath is ridiculously clean. This is the worse part of the car I've found so far (there is a bit of rust on the body seam under the battery tray, will pull that apart eventually and address it)
It's just surface scale.
Engine appearance wise, regardless of previous mods, is stock. Stock air box, TB, plenum etc. Runs smooth, no timing chain noise, pulls great to redline no problems at all so far.
Took it by my buddy's shop to get inspected. Known him for years, we put it on the lift. Even he's impressed how clean it is.
Eibach springs were added years ago as well. Aftermarket clutch quadrant, cable and firewall adjuster. With a seriously stiff clutch pedal. I was used to hydraulic, so I figured it was just me.
Ended up replacing both original ball joints with Moog (ripped boots, no noise, but definitely loose) and both outer tie rods. Went ahead and replaced what was likely original rotors (it had Motorcraft pads with A LOT of pad left, but they were so old they backing plates were coming unglued). Went with coated Raybestos rotors and Powerstop ceramic pads. Bled / flushed the brakes system. Rears aren't horrible but I'll be addressing them before too long, they appear original as well.
Back to the mileage. This car had 4.10 gears put in it EARLY in it's life. I'm guessing right around the time headers, Vortech etc were done. I'm also guessing when the first owner pulled the Vortech they also pulled the tune for the SC and the gears. So the previous owner started didn't put 46K on the car as the speedometer was 25% fast when I got it and had been the 15+ years he drove it. So in reality car has @ 85k on it LOL.
That's the first thing I ordered, a SCTx4 to correct the gears / speedo. Got that done and added the canned 93 octane SCT tune as well- why not. Car runs great.
Currently need to do some stuff of my son's car and the '13 SS Camaro ragtop (sorry the 6.2 LS is a fun engine) we just picked up as my wife's daily driver so I'm figuring out what's next for the '04.
I did replace the old adjustable clutch cable with a Steeda adjustable. Clutch is MUCH better. Got a bit of T/O bearing noise when clutch is disengaged, so I'll like try to get some grease in there. MGW shifter is on the way. The aftermarket shifter in there now is okay, but after using MGW once, I'll never use anything else. Also grabbed some AC Delco Synchromesh for a fresh fill on the TR3650 when the shifter gets installed.
