I was on the highway cruisin at around 70 behind a semi and i think it was a 98 mustang gt that pulls up next to me and takes off. The kid in the car has a fitted hat on sidways looking all gangster and what not, as he takes off he gives me the piece sign which pissed me off. The highway turns into 3 lanes so i get next to him at about 70, i hear him start to take off so i drop it in 3rd and take off after him. It wasnt really a race, i put about 2 semitruck lenghts on him at about 120 gave him the piece sign out the window and then continued cruisin in the right lane. Thought a gt would be able to keep up a little better, my mods are dp, exhaust, pully kit, pfc, 8lb flywheel.

 

Yeah, 98s are pretty slow. It's the perfect mustang if you want to look fast and have a GT emblem but still run 15s.

 

Those stangs got...

 

im not 100% sure it was exactly a 98, it was just the body style.

 

The 94-98s, which were the more rounded body style, were all pretty slow, low to high 15s. They had 5 liters up until 96, then the switched to 4.6 liters, but they were both dogs.

99-04 new edge GTs are quite a bit better, hitting low 14's usually. The 2005+ are good for mid to high 13s.

 

I got spanked by a new body style saleen convertible at the drag strip a year so ago. It has the stage II supercharger. I was running 13.1 @ 108, and he would be running 12.8s. I was almost bone stock with just a dp, cb and an intake back then.

 

A 2002 mustang GT with flowmaster exhaust called me out, hopefully ill put another mustang to shame.

 

You'll probably beat him. Slowmasters wont help him much. It wont be nearly as easy as a 98 GT though.

 

probably? is there a chance i will have trouble beating him? I was kinda talking some smack, and he wants to put money down. (only talked trash because he was hatin on teh 7.)

 

If he really just has flowmasters, he's probably good for a high 13 at best. I've actually heard flowmasters rob power sometimes and in that case he's at low to mid 14s, but I'm not certain for that car. If I had to bet, I'd bet on your 7. I'm just saying you wont slaughter him like you did the 98. It could concievably be a drivers race but I'd definitely give you the edge.

 

You'll get him believe me, I did one my car was very close to stock . . . which it is not now. Nice slaying mustangs sometimes, huh? Keep it up, and keep modding until that **** blows up-which it will. Sorry just happens sometimes happened to me but I kept on keeping on and now those new ones are taken it whether they like it or not.

 

If he's just doing exhaust it can actually hurt those GT's because of the flow issues. We tested my friends 1999 GT with cat back and it actually lost torque and didn't help at all. I think it has to do with the fact that the engine is lot's of torque and doesn't rev very high. Once he got headers and full exhaust under it it started to help. The biggest difference was cams by far.

Generally I am a lot more afraid of the guys with mullets driving the old 80's 5.0's then I am of the yuppies in the newer cars. Theres an old 5.0 that's always at the not so legal drags that pulls 9's pretty consistently, and we have seen it break into the top 8's at woodburn drag strip.

 

The guy ended up backing out. I guess people dont realize that all 3rd gens are stock with twin turbo... i cant even explain how many people come up to me and ask me if my car is NA or twin turbo.

 

Just be careful when you setup a race that they're not spraying on you. In the world of domestics, a bottle is the equalizer.

 

^That and a supercharger.

 

Or a turbo. It isn't really that different from the "import world".

You have to worry about nitrous with any car. You can put a dry kit on anything pretty easily.

Too bad the guy backed out. You probably could have made some money off of him. :P