[Mustang92]

Since everyone is throwing in their 2 cents so will I. There are just as many 13 second stock mustangs as 12 second stock LS1s. I attend about 30-35 test and tunes a year so I see them first hand not word of mouth. For every 8 LS1s at the track only one will have a decent driver but fact is they are very fast cars in stock form. One example comes to mind, a guy from Lauderdale that bought a WS6 two months ago put on a lid, cutouts, longtubes, adjustable shocks, lowering springs and nittos and went 12.49 @ 111 NA. Then turned on his 125 shot on the last pass and went 11.87 @ 120 with poor traction. The car only has a few thousand miles and will get quicker with more breakin.

The transmissions in these cars auto or manual are very strong unfortunately the rears and clutches aren't. Most of the serious guys have either broken rear ends or smoked their clutches. A good rear end swap for those cars is in the $2500 range so they just fix them and live with street tires or nittos. I usually race against a group of 8 or 9 LS1 guys in the pro tree lanes they have the basic bolt-ons and only about 2 of them will I even be close with and that is usually due to a good light against them. But generally speaking I rarely win even with my 12 second passes. If I went over to the sportsman lanes I would clean house against the average to below average LS1 driver but I don't feel like sitting in line with the ricers and listening to arguements about whos car has more power per litre.

Bill