I'm thinking about adding a ported intake, and installing some 96-98 cobra intake cams to get some more power. Hopefully I can save three tenths at the 1/4 mile with this stuff. That should get me my 11 second pass N/A that I'm looking for.
Getting some more power from my Mach
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FullThrottleStangs
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Wanna trade mach 1s? Lol
MustangChris
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N/A or juiced?
96_SVT_Cobra
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if that doesnt work my fr500 cams will get u there. lol
MustangChris
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maybe a stouter gear?
MustangChris
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i know what NA is... i was just wondering if you knew. 11s na is very impressive... esp. out of 281 little CIs... congrats on the times! id push some harsher gears first... $500-800 for gears is cheaper than $2000 in cams.
MustangChris
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ha. i was including professional install.atrainsgt said:
i assumed you were buying 4 brand new cams + install + any timing components that need replaced.
gears + rearend rebuild parts + labor.
MustangChris
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its tough being ballar. lol.
i mean... super fly.
i mean... super fly.
MustangChris
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how was i supposed to know your car only had 30k?
MustangChris
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all i remember from chat is you talking about how much you love aaron.....
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gears will NOT improve et.. at all.. it will just improve acceleration.. but wont get u there any quicker(if that makes any sense.) underdrive pully cams headers tires is about all you can do with that mach. for cheap
duff daddy
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Monster Mach said:
Its funny you say that but gears with the right tire set up will get you a higher trap MPH thus helping your ET become lower. I understand what your saying its like the arguement of gears and HP, gears effect hp only because you have less time to build the power as its being metered.
atrainsgt said:
Do the intake, depending if you already have the Mach 1 Intake spacer, do that or get a slightly larger one, Other then that get some 28" tire and ger some 4.30's
Gears do improve ET. If acceleration improves you are getting there faster. That's why most N/A car run a lot of gear and not 2.73's or 3.08's. My Mach 1 is already running 12.30's naturally aspirated so it's stout already.
MustangChris
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Duff Daddy said:Monster Mach said:
Its funny you say that but gears with the right tire set up will get you a higher trap MPH thus helping your ET become lower. I understand what your saying its like the arguement of gears and HP, gears effect hp only because you have less time to build the power as its being metered.
atrainsgt said:
Do the intake, depending if you already have the Mach 1 Intake spacer, do that or get a slightly larger one, Other then that get some 28" tire and ger some 4.30's
i ran a MASSIVE slick in my car. i ran a faster ET with a slower MPH.
what he is saying is not *WRONG*... hes just *WRONG* in the fact that he stated his comment in a blanket-format.
"gears will NOT improve et.. at all.."
there are *rare* occations where this is true... but "not imporoving et *AT ALL*" is incorrect.
many boosted cars gain so little from a gear swap, that it is hardly worth swaping ratios.
but to put all cars in the same catagory and to say that a gear swap wont help ET on any of them, this is false.
i ran a 15.5 in my car with full bolt ons and 4.10s....
i had a friend who ran a 16.1 in a full bolt on -plus PI Swap- with stock gears.
after he went with 3.73s he ran a 15.7 (ish?)
and after a tune he ran a 14.. .. . something.
anyways, he owns a WS6 now. lol.
fact is:
gears will *PROBABLY* help atrain.
look at the extreams of the argument:
if it didnt help at all, we would all be running with 1.094:1 ratios...
if it was a fix-all, we would all be running with 12.1389:1 ratios...
there is a happy median, and 3.73s/4.10s tend to be the choice for most 8.8 mustang drivers who want performance.
