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Greetings.I will soon be parking me 97GT for the winter and although some day I would like to supercharge it,I am curently looking for low dollar ways to get some extra power.It would be nice to have an edge over the other stock GTs next spring.Any ideas where my dollars will be best spent.

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Owner of a 97 Mustang GT.Bone stock

Start with a set of 3.73 gears along with a short throw shifter if you already don't have one. Also pulleys are always a good bang for the $.

Will

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98Cobra-3.73,Offroad
Xpipe,Flowmasters,Mac Cold air,SteedaTiming Adjuster16deg,Autometer Shiftlight,NittoDragRadials
60ft-2.013 1/8-8.488 mph-85.170 1/4-13.123 mph-106.148

Like Snake said, pulleys and gears are always great to start with. Also, a good aftermarket x-pipe will help. The offroad ones (without cats) are a lot cheaper, and make a couple extra HP, but if it's illegal where you live, the cat pipes work really well too.

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Black 2000 GT Auto
Bassani X-pipe, Magnaflow Mufflers, Steeda Pulleys, K&N Filter. Steeda Weld in Subframes, Strut Tower brace, Sport Springs, Caster/Camber Plates.
Ran Once, 14.52@96.57 with a 1.32 R/T & 2.3 60'!!

Red 1994 Mustang Cobra #4343
Pulleys, Shorty Headers, K&N filter, short throw shifter.

Thanks,what about a chip any extra power there?The pulleys and X pipe are first on my list.

I am right there w/ 98SNAKE.
3:73's and a shifter should come first. Then you can throw on the H or X-pipe and pulleys.

The shifter sounds like a good idea,but the lower gears scare me as allot of my driving is highway.I like to drive real fast.

Well, unless you want to go like 160, the gears wont adversely affect your high speed driving, in fact, they will pull you to the limit faster than the stock gears. Granted, your gas mileage will suffer, but if you're driving like 120 all the time anyway, that isnt likely a great concern of yours in the first place.

A chip won't benefit you much right now. I'd wait on that until you have a few more mods, like heads, supercharger, you get what I'm saying. Then you would want to get a custom chip burned for your specific combo. Hope I helped.

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1990 Mustang GT 5.0
1966 Mustang 200 six
2001 Ford F-150 5.4