Archive for September, 2006

For the past year Roush Performance Products has been testing and tuning their lastest line of new competition parts. Roush indicates that their new products are race proven, and stand up to the incredible torque and stress generated from the drag racing enviroment.

The line of the ROUSH Competition Parts will be introduced to the market in several phases. The first phase includes the following six components, all designed to fit the 2005-2007 Ford Mustang:

Ford tuner/supercar builder Saleen shut down a few Orange County streets and opened the doors to its headquarters for its 10th annual open house/car show.

Saleen (the company) let the Saleen Owners and Enthusiasts Club (SOEC) take over its manufacturing headquarters so that everyone could celebrate all things Saleen (the car). Though this car show was technically open to any and all cars, this event was pretty much dominated by all things Ford-powered and Saleen-tuned.

Though a few S7s and Saleen-tuned F150s were on hand, the car of the day was the Saleen Mustang. All generations of Saleen-tuned ‘Stangs were on hand, which is great for the Saleen Mustang fan, not-so-great for those looking for a bit of variety. Don’t get us wrong, we love Saleen Mustangs as much as the next certified gear-head. It just seems as if most of these cars are picked up by the type of guy that spends one too many hours watching the Barrett-Jackson auctions on TV and not-so-secretly hopes that his Saleen Mustang will be the next million-dollar car. Most of these Saleen Mustangs look as if they rarely come out of the garage, let alone see any sort of track time. Whatever happened to buying a race-ready car and taking it racing?

Blackforest Motorsports, who delivered the Ford Mustang FR500C’s first win in Grand-Am Cup Series competition in its debut at Daytona International Speedway in 2005, will be looking to accomplish a similar feat in 2007 as the Florida-based squad has announced plans to contest the 2007 Rolex Sports Car Series season in GT Class competition with a Prep2 Mustang Cobra.

Ford Racing will build the race engines utilizing infrastructure which is already in place to support the FR500C Grand-Am Cup program, and the Mustang Cobra will ride on a Crawford Racing-designed and built chassis. The Blackforest Mustang Cobra will race in the GT Class against competition that includes the Pontiac GTO.R, Ferrari F430, and Porsche 997 GT3.

Today it is not uncommon to find a ‘65 Fastback with modular V8 power, but brothers Bob and Wayne Julian took their project “SN65″ to a whole new level.  This beautiful Screaming Yellow fastback is not your average shoehorned V8 swap, but rather the merging of two unibodies. The Julian brothers began by painstakenly cutting the body off of a 2003 Cobra with just 13k on the ticker, this was followed by cutting the opposite portion from a perfectly healthy 1965 Fastback.

There were many major differences in the two unibodies, one being the Terminator’s wheelbase was 7inches shorter than that of the Fastback.  Not wanting to the outcome to appear as that of a funny car the Julian brothers engineered a method to extend the Cobra’s wheelbase.  Another hurdle was how to handle the width changes in the last 40 years of Ford engineering that led to the Mustang’s body wideing from 56 inches to nearly 61 inches.  However the brothers had an answer for everything, so they facilitated fender flares and spent tedious hours re-engineering the entire suspension.

This entry in the Ford Racing series sees the action move to streets of Los Angeles, with a unique team racing experience included that puts the player in control of their own Ford Racing three-car team, allowing them to race and also issue commands to team mates to gain tactical and positional advantage.

New innovative features such as Maximum Team Control Racing separate this game from the pack, allowing a user to switch-on-the-fly between a team of three vehicles to dominate a race! New features, hot cars, and a price of $19.99 make Ford Bold Moves Street Racing redefine what it means to be a great value.