help please....need to beat camaro

[Torinalth]

the deuce is correct... we just cant compete with a SS, motor to motor.... they have a full liter on us, and not much with our aftermarket can assist with that....

best you could do is look into a bullit intake, see if you can get higher compression pistons, long tube headers, x-pipe, and some good mufflers (magnaflow do well for NA). but still you are going to lose.

only chance to go motor to motor is doing the same thing i listed above after dropping in a 5.4L modular with an altered cam and ported head. i know SHM and DSS do ported longblocks for the 5.4... and from there you SHOULD be close to 400 with the exhaust, bullit intake, the k/n intake and what not but that alone is going to run somewhere close to 7k for the engine and addons... then the labor...

seriously, best way to do it is to get a solid blower, like an ATI procharger, run 10 lbs of boost, get some fat long tube headers, short Xpipe then free flow mufflers like bassani... that should get you just around 375 to the floor and would give you a nice chance against the SS...

one other thing you gotta remember he paid a good deal more than you did for your mustang... he dropped another 5k+ on that car than you did... why not spend the same and catch up? unless you drop on a blower or pop in a 5.4L engine in there you just wont ever beat him.

Torinalth