1985 GT - Test your mustang knowledge, guess how fast i'll run 1/4 mile

[tireburner163]

You car should run some mid 12's on motor with ease.


All you people saying high 13's, WTF are you smoking????? Give me a break. My car ran 13.5's @ 97 with just slicks, gears, h-pipe, and a shifter. STOCK heads, STOCK cam, STOCK intake, STOCK headers, STOCK maf, STOCK throttle body.....stall I continue? It went high 12's with the mods listed in my sig on motor.

Bottom line is, that if you have a heads/cam/intake car and you can't get out of the 13's take a look at your floor board.........it's the pedel on the right cup cake.

[84LX89GT]

Originally Posted by tireburner163

Bottom line is, that if you have a heads/cam/intake car and you can't get out of the 13's take a look at your floor board.........it's the pedel on the right cup cake.

lmao rofl, that's an awesome quote

Update: the last three days - Installed electric fan kit, fixed coolant leak and replaced t-stat, installed 90/10 struts and 4 cyl. front springs, removed front sway bar, installed and rewired Ford High-torque starter, removed transmission and clutch - found that bellhousing was cracked, pressure plate distorted and that clutch rivets were worn into flywheel not to mention it was the small 10" clutch anyway. so i have to buy all that for the later model 10.5" clutch setup and i'm also gonna get a short throw shifter (not sure what yet). I also installed a metric canadian speedometer but it's making a clicking noise so i may try to venture into the innards and fix it.
I still need to replace the windshield, install battery hold down, replace rear springs (possibly get new control arms), install new clutch/bellhousing etc., and countless other small things that have been neglected by the previous owner for years.
all in all i think i may have an hour or two more of work .....wait more like 21 hours more work

[bigred90gt]

Originally Posted by tireburner163

You car should run some mid 12's on motor with ease.


All you people saying high 13's, WTF are you smoking????? Give me a break. My car ran 13.5's @ 97 with just slicks, gears, h-pipe, and a shifter. STOCK heads, STOCK cam, STOCK intake, STOCK headers, STOCK maf, STOCK throttle body.....stall I continue? It went high 12's with the mods listed in my sig on motor.

Bottom line is, that if you have a heads/cam/intake car and you can't get out of the 13's take a look at your floor board.........it's the pedel on the right cup cake.

The almighty tireburner has spoken. It must be gospel.

84LX89GT - How much experience do you have at the strip?

[Unit 5302]

I agree wholehartedly with tireburner. Even though the F cam is a mismatch with the GT40P heads and Stealth intake, the combination should still run a lot better than stock.

The T-5 is suspect as bigredgt pointed out, though I'd happily take a stock Borg Warner T-5 (back before that craphole company known as Tremec bought them out) over a stock Tremec any day. Provided the slicks aren't shot and the car makes it down the track, high 13's would signal some major tuning issues. It should be in the 12's.

An 85GT with very light mods and a good driver can easily pull off mid/low 14s.

[84LX89GT]

Originally Posted by bigred90gt

The almighty tireburner has spoken. It must be gospel.

84LX89GT - How much experience do you have at the strip?

I attended for bracket racing 10 times last year (incl. test 'n tune) with a Police Package '97 Crown Victoria
I raced my 89 GT about 3 times, my '87 cherokee about 2 times, my '98 Cobra once (see other post).
I think i do alright, with street tires i got my '98 Cobra to a 13.84@103.41, my '89 GT w/slicks i believe was 13.30 at 102mph - it had stock heads, cam and bottom end. I'm not the best and i'm not the worst, i've never missed a shift and i know how to read the timeslip and adjust what i'm doing.

[HoodStrype]

Originally Posted by bigred90gt

The almighty tireburner has spoken. It must be gospel.

Haha! I've only been doing 10 years so I surely don't know what I'm talking about LOL.

I'll give it 13.5 with slicks now that I saw my friend run a 8.9 1/8 without drag radials/gears/heads. He has the f303 (why I dunno) and stock heads with an exploder intake.

[tireburner163]

Originally Posted by HoodStrype

Haha! I've only been doing 10 years so I surely don't know what I'm talking about LOL.

I'll give it 13.5 with slicks now that I saw my friend run a 8.9 1/8 without drag radials/gears/heads. He has the f303 (why I dunno) and stock heads with an exploder intake.

And I say that you've been doing it wrong for 10 years if you can't get a heads, cam, intake car into the 12's.


I ran 13.5's with a basicly stock car. Stock heads, cam, intake, tb, maf, and headers.

The man's own 89 GT ran 13.30's with a soft 1.82 60 foot with stock heads and a stock cam. You telling me that with heads, a cam, and a few bolt ons that he couldn't pick up the .4's needed to run 12's?


I was in the high 12's with the mods in my sig on motor and mid 11's on the kit.......E7 heads...stock cam. Drew Lyons (FiveOhPatrol) was running 12's with E7's and a B-303 cam a few years ago.


The only way this car will run 13's is if he flat out can't drive or the track is a ice rink.

[HoodStrype]

Originally Posted by tireburner163

And I say that you've been doing it wrong for 10 years if you can't get a heads, cam, intake car into the 12's.

Ummm... Not to be over the top, but I'm sure with your 21 year old W E A L T H of knowlege you're probably correct.

High 12's... It's possible but not likely, and have you ever even seen a set of gt40p heads? Do you know what they came off of? Do you know how much a car running those heads dyno's at? Do you know that F-cam is probably a slight mis match for that set up? I'm taking into consideration average guy and average car...

Ice the crap out of the intake, have a 40 degree night with no humidity and pray the strip sprays lots of track bite and I'll show you high 12's with that combo.

PS: please don't PM me with how you've been drag racing since you rode a tricycle, how you're an ASE certified tire technician, how you're dad used to hang out with Ozzy Osbourne or anything else... I don't argue on websites because there is no point to it and I have to go back to work now building a database

[1989GT]

I ran 12.80's @ 107 with Gt40P heads, on drag radials with a 1.8 60 ft. And I don't have anything that is even close to drag suspension, with suspension and slicks theirs probably almost another half second or so.

[tireburner163]

Originally Posted by 1989GT

I ran 12.80's @ 107 with Gt40P heads, on drag radials with a 1.8 60 ft. And I don't have anything that is even close to drag suspension, with suspension and slicks theirs probably almost another half second or so.

bs......it takes a supercharged 347 stroker to run those kinds of numbers

[tireburner163]

Originally Posted by HoodStrype

Ummm... Not to be over the top, but I'm sure with your 21 year old W E A L T H of knowlege you're probably correct.

Nice attempt at a cheap shot.

You’re associating age with experience. They don’t always go hand in hand.

What kind of mods do you have on your car? How many of them did you do yourself?

I completely removed the motor, transmission, rear-end, and suspension from my car (see updated sig) and upgraded or replaced just about every part. This is my 3rd mustang I’ve done this to.

How many AOD to 5-speed swaps have you done? I’ve done four.

How man H/C/I swaps have you done? I’ve done many?

How many nitrous installs have you done? I’ve done ten or eleven?

How many blower installs? I’ve done five.

I would say I know myself around a mustang pretty well.



Also how often do you race your car at the drag strip? My car is there a bare minimum of once a week, often times two.

Originally Posted by HoodStrype

High 12's... It's possible but not likely, and have you ever even seen a set of gt40p heads? Do you know what they came off of? Do you know how much a car running those heads dyno's at? Do you know that F-cam is probably a slight mis match for that set up? I'm taking into consideration average guy and average car...

And I ask you, have you ever see a set of E7 heads??? They flow a dismal 150cfm intake at .500 lift and 123 on the exhaust.

Oh the other hand GT-40P heads flow 195cfm intake and 142 exhaust at .500 lift.

I would say that 45cfm on the intake, and 19 cfm on the exhaust was worth some serious horsepower over the stock heads.

True the F-cam IS a mis-match, however it does more good than harm in this case. It's still going to make more power than the stock cam.

My car ran mid 13.5 @ 97 mph with only tires, gears, a shifter, a h-pipe, and roller rockers.

Suggesting that a car with much better heads, intake, cam, ignition, and a drag orientated suspension can only run mid 13's is crazy to say the least.

I'm not saying you can baby the car down the track can run 12's. You're going to have to launch it fairly hard and power shift it, but 12's should be easily attainable.

Originally Posted by HoodStrype

Ice the crap out of the intake, have a 40 degree night with no humidity and pray the strip sprays lots of track bite and I'll show you high 12's with that combo.

Do that and I'll show you a mid 12 second car.

Originally Posted by HoodStrype

PS: please don't PM me with how you've been drag racing since you rode a tricycle, how you're an ASE certified tire technician, how you're dad used to hang out with Ozzy Osbourne or anything else... I don't argue on websites because there is no point to it and I have to go back to work now building a database

I also try to refrain from arguing over the internet. I end up spending much of my time explaining things to amateurs such as yourself.


Have a nice day

[HoodStrype]

Tireburner, Your posts are stupid and rude and have been for 5 years. Look at the one here that 69Bronco started for ex. There is no need to post about how long you've ridden a tricycle, most people here are very experienced and sometimes we disagree. I don't know everything dude and when someone calls me on it I don't write out a thesis... no one cares. Enough. Over.

Soooo, okay, back to the subject at hand, 84LX89GT when ya gonna run that bad boy??? I reread back where ya doing some suspension work