2013 Mustang Club of America Edition! Update 01/25/2017

Ladies and gentlemen of them interwebz. This is a thread to document the progress of my 2013 MCA Cyclone V6.

The name stems from wanting to be a subtle car that has the capacity to hurt some feelings, but still maintain daily drivability and reliability.

Upgrades so far are as follows:

· BBK Short tubes (big difference through the range)
· BBK Catted Mid pipe, Magnaflow Axlebacks and added in a set of stock GT resonators to kill some of the cyclone rasp, definitely sounds awesome.
· Steeda Cold Air intake with a 93 tune from Bama (enormous difference, especially on the auto)
· Plasti dipped the MCA grille black to clean up the look.
· This past weekend we just installed the convertible light bar with the brake lights. Highly recommended for convertibles. Easy install and it looks AWESOME!
· A few here and there interior dress up things, door lock pins, defrost vents on the doors.

Still to come:

A friend of ours runs a hydrographics shop, and has offered to do some complimentary work if we agree to be in his commercial. So on the schedule for this week is to hydrodip the center console area (it's all scratched up) in a metallic blue with a marble pattern on top, as well as dip the radiator cover in performance white with marble. Good place for stickers (MOAR POWAH!!!!!)

Also here awaiting install are interior door handles (the stock ones look chintzy, these are full aluminum pieces), MMD Hood Struts (Mustang ones).

Future plans include:

· Maximum motorsports lower control arms
· Aluminum drive shaft
· Ported upper and lower from Super Six coupled with a BBK throttle body
· Chin spoiler from Latemodel
· And eventually some mild lowering and sway bars

Besides welding in the resonators, all work has been completed by g36 monkey (go figure), whitey, and silverv6 and myself of course

Thanks for looking, and I know, no thread is complete without pics so.....





















LOOK CLOSE AND FIND WALDO! OR MY CAR I GUESS! Thanks to Ferocious for giving more inspiration




Grille before for reference ;p




My car has an ugly boyfriend.




Thanks for looking!

 

Ha, don't worry, there will be plenty of typos and bad grammar coming from me! Well, unless g36 monkey edits my posts!

Anyways, we finally got around to adding some oh so sexy hood struts the other day!

 

So we've been pretty busy lately. On the convertible it's pretty tough to put stickers anywhere good, window space is limited because I'm worried about the rear quarter window vinyls being rubbed off by going up and down, and the rear window is about the size of a basketball, so I don't want to clog up the room to see there.

To avert this crisis, we turned to hydrographics on the radiator cover to create a nice canvas, and while there we got some of the interior pieces done as well. Now there's a nice spot to add all of the extra horsepower

Then we installed billet aluminum door handles. While they are a slight pain, still about 1,000 times easier than SN95 handles. We are finding these cars pull apart easier than the SN95, which is amazing because of how much more "quality" they seem.

We also painted the calipers and brackets. The calipers are blue and brackets black. Trying to get some blue accent outside the car (my favorite color), the next step is probably a large blue super snake style stripe. Also planning on getting the Mustang Club of America striping custom done in the same blue. We will see what the future holds though.

After all that we installed little Pony LED's in the cup holders. Something probably no one will notice, but I thought they were cool so it happened!

Last but certainly not least, I finally had a dream come true this past Saturday. I won an award as one of the top 7 Late model cars (05-14) in a show HEAVILY dominated by newer cars. A lot of brand new Roushs (Roushes?), Shelbys, etc. didn't take home awards but this little V6 did and I was really proud people took time to notice the things we've done

Anyhow, no thread is complete without pics:


























Thanks for looking

 

I forgot to add in the hydrographics pics!









Fresh after being dipped and cleared








Initially I was worried it would be too busy, but I think it came out awesome, and we get compliments on it regularly. Not to sound cliche but the pics really don't do any justice. The blue inside looks absolutely incredible in the sun!

Anyhow, thanks again for looking