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So I have about 2500-3k to spend . Exterior wise I think it's done . I'm hesitant to lower it as I drive it in the winter . Only performance stuff done is tuned and borlas . Any ideas I thought about a centri for a while but driving in chicago winter would suck
 
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All you can do with a auto ? Lol please people with a stall and stickies can run 11s all day add nitrous it's 10s don't be a hater .

Suspension sounds like a plan I really wish I could run the dark stars in the rear but I know as a dd bad idea :(
 
#8 ·
A supercharger won't do you much good if you can't put the power to the ground. You'll just be stuck spinning your wheels...

Get yourself lower and upper control arms, along with a upper control arm mount and relocation brackets. You can do a mild drop, like an inch. Get a panhard bar, shocks, and struts. If you shop around, you can get all those parts for around $1k.

Take what's left of that money and put it aside for a supercharger.
 
#12 ·
Invest it. Wait till it grows then have more to spend on it later.

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#15 ·
Might take that 3k and find a winter driver! I'm also a chicago driver (Northern 'burbs ftw?) and the first order of business this fall is buying a beater 4x4 truck to keep my lady from the sh!tass winters & salt around here.

For about 1500 you could redo most of the major parts of the suspension. The other 1500 could go into some decent rims w/ streetcomps.
 
#21 ·
So what you're saying is upgrading his gears would make absolutely NO difference? LOL, what fantasy land are you living on? He would get off the line faster therefore his 0-60 mph and 60' would be better. Idk where you got off saying that?
Because I along with a group have others have been doing all the testing since these cars came out. Gears will not help an auto while a converter will.

What testing have you done again?
 
#22 ·
Heard in the auto 3.73 hurt time at the track due to shifting again before the line. The Cj intake is also useless for a street car I think more of a road course application. And already have amr rims . Maybe nitrous , headers , suspension . But heard headers are a expensive install
 
#25 ·
Here is a quote from Mike Rousch from Mid Atlantic Performance who has become one of the best auto tuners out there.
I agree 100% on the 3.15/3.31 gears being the way to go. Last year I had the chance to test 2 cars at the same track same day, cars were withing 15 pounds of each other, same mods to the T. Same driver (me), The 3.31 car outran the 4.10 car by about .03ish every time.

In my personal car i have been 11.16@123 with a 3.15 gear and 275/50/15 drag radials.
 
#29 ·
$3k to spend on mods and u still have the stock suspension?!?!! That is the weakest point on these cars, it shouldn't event be a question. U can add all the power u want and ur still gonna be slipping and sliding all over the place, u just need a mild drop with LCA w/ relocation brackets along with UCA and ur at least planted enough to get the power u already have on the pavement
 
#33 ·
A centrifugal supercharger wouldn't be as bad for a DD as a normal twin screw just because you don't get that smack in the face of torque all at once. The Centrifugal acts a lot like a turbo in some ways.

That being said, I totally agree with the others. For 3k you could do some amazing work with the suspension. Here's a suggestion, this has ALMOST everything (I wish they made it for the V6 :lol:):

Hotchkis Stage2 TVS Track Pack Mustang Handling Kit 80118-2 (11-14 GT) - Free Shipping
 
#35 ·
Just because they're missing from the kit doesn't mean it's a horrible kit, just an incomplete one. (Hence why I said ALMOST everything).

As for piecing it out, that rarely works, but go for it.
 
#37 ·
And really? Piecing out parts rarely works? So... You have to get a CAI, headers, cat delete pipes/high flow cats, and a full catback system from the same company or else they won't work together?

Oh shiit I hope Hotchkis makes tires too cuz I wouldn't want to buy tires that won't work with my Hotchkis suspension package. Maybe I need to buy Hotchkis shoes too since it connects my foot to the pedals... I don't want my foot to not work well with the suspension by not having the optimal rubber grip of the sole just in case the extra G forces the Hotchkis setup can produce causes my foot to slip off the pedals during cornering.
 
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