I saw this thread over in the sixxer section, figured we could make one over here. If your like me I get on here to see what other people do to there mustangs to get ideas of what to do to mine (and like to look at pictures!). Anything from performance mods to custom painting in the interior could be thrown around here. I will start it off... I added SLP Loudmouth exhaust to my 2008 GT over the weekend, I will add pics tomorrow!
What Did You Do To Your GT Today?
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Its a 5/6 year old daily driver. Its holding up pretty well, but the creaks, squeaks, and less than stellar paint make me want something else. After losing one engine I don't really want to build another one and I certainly don't really feel like sinking a ton of money into this car. If I wasn't happy with it before, I'm certainly not now. Its kind of irritating to be driving something around that cost me a lot of money, got broken because of something stupid, than cost me more money to fix it several times this year because of some of the mods. With all the money I have into the car from exhaust, cams, replaced engines and other parts replaced because of the cams, I could have had a blower. I just feel a little anger every time I get into the car.
Its like an annoying girlfriend. You love her, but you just want to bang something else lol.
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I say go for it, Dylan. Those new 5.0's are something serious.
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there she is all detailed up!!! I have been driving it everyday! so nice here in Nebraska and this is my favorite time to cruise, when the weather is nice and cool!
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Just regular wipe downs whenever i wash the car, never drive on gravel or in the rain... and 13,065 miles...lol, but i hear simple green mixed with some water on a warm engine will do wonders...
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those can look awesome too man! the valve covers is a huge thing people see when you open the hood, also re wrap all the wires, i am going to wrap mine in blue this winter!
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yep, painted mine when they were off for the cam install! wasnt going to.. but damn glad i did!
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Car is at the dealership getting worked on. 
I miss having the freedom to drive around and worst of all I'm missing day 3 of the 2012 Solo Nationals down in Lincoln and missing two of my favorite classes... F Stock (Mustangs, Camaros, and Firebirds for the most part) and C-Prepared (race prepped Mustangs, Camaros, Firebirds, etc).
The good news is that I will hopefully have the rear diff repacked with new clutch packs by the end of the day, hopefully! Hopefully it will also be covered under warranty. My friend who is doing the work said it will be so here is to hoping he is right!
I miss having the freedom to drive around and worst of all I'm missing day 3 of the 2012 Solo Nationals down in Lincoln and missing two of my favorite classes... F Stock (Mustangs, Camaros, and Firebirds for the most part) and C-Prepared (race prepped Mustangs, Camaros, Firebirds, etc). The good news is that I will hopefully have the rear diff repacked with new clutch packs by the end of the day, hopefully!
Hopefully it will also be covered under warranty. My friend who is doing the work said it will be so here is to hoping he is right! 
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Whiskey, I was just thinking how awesome it is that you do autocross. I would love to get in to it but I don't really know too much about suspension set up and geometry lol.
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these damn nebraska roads.. i think i am going to need some new struts and shocks...lol, thinking about the koni str's!
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Suspension set up is easy! Especially for the first year! You do a whole bag of NOTHING to your car... at most good tires. Go out, drive the car, learn what autocross is, destroy the stock tires or whatever tires are on the car, then the next year you only add what you feel needs changed, most likely tires if you didn't replace them the year before, most likely shocks/struts and most likely an adjustable rear sway bar... continue running for a year making small changes to the rear sway bar and shock/strut settings.
I went a full year bone stock and enjoyed the ever living piss out of it!
I also killed the stock tires! Great excuse to upgrade, so I did. I also did shocks/struts, springs, adjustable swaybars and Watts link all at once... I kind of regret it, but I kinda dont. Lots of things to play with, different things to understand what they do, but you do it in steps and not all at once and it is less of a headache and gives you time to soak it all in.To be honest, these cars really don't need anything to go out and have fun. To go out and compete it gets more expensive (good tires are not cheap) and as you change things the desire to "max out" to the class you are in gets stronger and stronger and stronger. The best advice I can give you right now is forget your performance mod plans (suspension and power) for right now and go out to a few events and drive your car. Learn to know what understeer and oversteer feel like and how the car reacts at the limits and how to get the car to those limits as fast as possible without going over them. You will eventually learn what you need to change about the car and the easiest way to achieve it and the rest kind of falls into place.
I personally take a more data and nuts and bolts approach to suspension tuning because I like getting involved in every little detail and using those advantages to maximize the performance of the car. Some people don't care why a Watts link can create better handling, they just want to know that it can. Those same people don't care why a swaybar increases or decreases understeer, they just care that it does it. I prefer to know why I am making changes. There is nothing wrong with either school of thought, it's just two different ways to accomplish the same goal. I prefer to know why, some just prefer that it does what they want it to do.
So yes, go out and do it, have fun, kill the tires you are on now and next tax season buy some new ones that are better.
I don't know what all you have done to your current car, but some form of camber adjustment to get more than the factory -0.75º is a wise decision as will squaring up your wheels/tires so you can rotate them correctly. Both will help with tire wear in the long run and the alignment is nice but not immediate. I'm running around -1.7ºish and I'm still getting some outside tire wear indicating I need more negative camber. I drive harder than most do on the street though...The worst thing though is to just sit here and think about doing it. Watching Nationals and knowing I'm not down there watching in person is aggravating enough!
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We have the same mindset. My old cross country coach hates me because I would always ask why we benefited. Not even in an argumentation form, I just like to know the logic and how things help or harm something.Suspension set up is easy! Especially for the first year! You do a whole bag of NOTHING to your car... at most good tires. Go out, drive the car, learn what autocross is, destroy the stock tires or whatever tires are on the car, then the next year you only add what you feel needs changed, most likely tires if you didn't replace them the year before, most likely shocks/struts and most likely an adjustable rear sway bar... continue running for a year making small changes to the rear sway bar and shock/strut settings.
I went a full year bone stock and enjoyed the ever living piss out of it!
To be honest, these cars really don't need anything to go out and have fun. To go out and compete it gets more expensive (good tires are not cheap) and as you change things the desire to "max out" to the class you are in gets stronger and stronger and stronger. The best advice I can give you right now is forget your performance mod plans (suspension and power) for right now and go out to a few events and drive your car. Learn to know what understeer and oversteer feel like and how the car reacts at the limits and how to get the car to those limits as fast as possible without going over them. You will eventually learn what you need to change about the car and the easiest way to achieve it and the rest kind of falls into place.
I personally take a more data and nuts and bolts approach to suspension tuning because I like getting involved in every little detail and using those advantages to maximize the performance of the car. Some people don't care why a Watts link can create better handling, they just want to know that it can. Those same people don't care why a swaybar increases or decreases understeer, they just care that it does it. I prefer to know why I am making changes. There is nothing wrong with either school of thought, it's just two different ways to accomplish the same goal. I prefer to know why, some just prefer that it does what they want it to do.
So yes, go out and do it, have fun, kill the tires you are on now and next tax season buy some new ones that are better.
The worst thing though is to just sit here and think about doing it. Watching Nationals and knowing I'm not down there watching in person is aggravating enough!
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