Matt’s Ford Mustang:
“5 Liter Import Eater”

This car will soon be gracing the feature pages of Modified Mustangs mag. Just got word from Traci(on 9/15/07), the photographer, that they won't make it out to Jersey til spring. Oh well...it'll be worth the wait!

DYNO NUMBERS!
Lots of people make claims and talk tons of shit about how fast and badass their cars are...but I have something many of these ass-clowns don't, PROOF! Read it and wheep! Job Spetter Jr. from Turbo People tuned this car...kind of. It got 1 pull; he cut it short at 5600 rpm because the car was making too much boost for the stock short block (18lbs). Just for reference, this run was the base run and the car was on a very mild, basic tune. The results, well...barely tuned and cutting it short of redline, the car made 483 RWHP and 455ft/lbs TQ...and the horsepower curve was still climbing up the graph. From the looks of it, the car would have made about 510 RWHP at redline. At one point Job actually said he could have got 600 RWHP out of it if he were able to tune it as it sat without breaking anything. I've since switched to serpentine pulleys on the supercharger and it's a lot more "user friendly" now. I can't wait to see what kind of power this car makes when it's tuned to peak!

New Motor Shots 9/15/07, left is when everything was removed for powdercoating, and right is after powdercoat, I basically had everything but the blower and blow off valve done so they'd be the focal points. Forgive that shitty pic, it was a cell phone and the glare was terrible. It's hard to see what's powdercoated but the list is, valve covers, upper intake, EGR spacer, throttle body, Vortech intake tube, lower intake tube, radiator bracket. I also sprayed the motor compartment black to freshen it up.

5 Liter Import Eater:
1988 Mustang LX Hatchback, 120k on body, 7k max on ALL mods

Performance Mods:
-Bone Stock 93 Cobra Short Block with 27,000 Original Miles
-Trick Flow Twisted Wedge Aluminum Heads(no port work)
-1.72 FMS SVO Roller Rockers
-Hardened Pushrods
-Mac 1 ¾" Full Length Headers
-3" Prochamber H-pipe
-Flowmaster Cat-Back (now running dumps because of the anti-roll bar, I want to have some tail pipes fabbed up)
-Vortech S-trim Supercharger (18lbs of boost...probably a bit less now with the serp pulley setup)
-Vortech Race Blow off Valve
-Anderson Ford 4" Power-pipe
-Accel Gen 7 DFI Computer (NEW, tuned by Job Spetter Jr. of Turbo People; the same person who tuned "Big Daddy" Dwayne Gutridge's retarded fast Notch)
-Trick Flow Track Heat Upper/Lower Intake
-1" Phenolic Intake Spacer
-Professional Products 75mm Throttle Body/EGR Spacer
-Ultradyne Cam(284/284/-525-525)
-Motorsport Doulbe Roller Timing Chain
-MSD 6AL Ingnition
-MSD Distributor
-MSD Blaster SS Coil
-Taylor 10.4mm Race Wires
-NGK Race Spark Plugs
-Edelbrock High-flow Aluminum Water Pump
-Fluidamper Damper
-Downs 3 Core Aluminum Radiator
-Aeromotive A1000 In Line Fuel Pump(hidden in front of the fuel tank)
-72lb Injectors
-Modified Fuel Rails
-Paxton Adjustable Fuel Pressure Regulator
-Stainless Steel Braided Fuel Lines
-PA Performance 100 amp Alternator
-PA Performance High Torque Mini-starter w/upgraded wiring
-Battery Relocation Kit Using Thick Gauge Welding Wire
-Optima Red Top Battery
-Moroso Shut-off Switch(cut through the rear liscence plate)
-Tremec/Borg Warner Base Model T-5(brand new, but i don't think it'd handle a 5000 rpm launch from this thing, lol)
-Polyurethane Trans Mount
-King Cobra Clutch
-Adjustable clutch quadrant(firewall)
-Aluminum Flywheel
-Pro 5.0 Shifter
-3" Aluminum Driveshaft
-Driveshaft Safety Loop
-Eibach Pro Kit
-Wolfe Racecraft Heavy Duty Anti-roll Bar (welded by Tim at Coast Chassis Design, now of Florida)
-KYB AGX 8 Way Adjustable Rear Shocks
-KYB 4 Way Adjustable Front Struts
-QA1 Adjustable Caster/Camber Plates
-BBK Gripp Upper/Lower Rear Control Arms
-Strange 31 spline Axles w/extended Studs
-4:10 Gears(soon to be raplaced with 3:55's)
-Eaton Posi Unit
-Dunlop W rated 265/40 17" Tires

Appearance Mods:
-Boysenberry Blue Paint(it's more purple than blue...I don't know why they call it blue, it's a stock limited ford probe color, color code "JJ")
-Cervinis Auto Designs 2.5" Cowl Hood
-17" Gunmetal Cobra R Rims
-6 Piece Smoked Headlights
-Indiglo Gauges With Custom Satin Black Painted Overlay(makes each gauge look seperate)
-Grant Wood Steering Wheel(you either love it or hate it)
-Flaming Pony Dash Plaque
-20% Tint All Around and Across Top of Windshield
-HVAC Vents Painted Gloss Black
-Mach 1 Aluminum Shift Knob
-Shift Bezel/HVAC Control Cover Painted Gloss Black
-Pony Emblem Above 5.0 Emblems
-95 GT Grey Cloth Front Seats(way lighter than stock power lumbar seats)
-Ventshade Rain Guards
-Black Chrome Fire Extinguisher w/custom Painted Lime Flames
-Steeda Aerospoiler(needs to be painted and installed)
-Black Carpet(going in soon)
-Harwood Smooth Cowl Panel(will be painted and installed with the spoiler)
-Black powdercoated motor pieces(upper intake, valve covers, egr spacer, throttle body, Vortech intake tube, lower intake pipe, and radiator bracket)

Electronics/Audio:
-Autometer Dash Tach Pod
-Autometer Triple A Pillar Gauge Pod
-Autometer 5" Tach w/Shift Light
-Autometer Boost Gauge
-Autometer Fuel Pressure Gauge
-Autometer Water Temp Gauge
-Autometer Oil Pressure Gauge
-Autometer Fuel Level Gauge
-Pioneer CD Player(in but not hooked up)
-Infinity 5x7 Rear Speakers
-Sylvania Headlight Bulbs

Maintenance Mods:(all done in the past 1000 miles)
-New Master Cylender
-Freshly Rebuild MSD Billet Distributor
-New Power Steering Rack + Bushings
-New Power Steering Rag Joint
-New Tires
-Just cleaned up some of the wiring and added 0 gauge welding cable as new battery cable
-PA Perf High Torque Mini-starter
-Painted much of the undercariage/rear with rust inhibiter undercoating

Future Plans:
-90-93 Grey Tweed Seats
-Nitto/Mickey Thompson(?) 275/40 17" Drag Radials
-Low Compression Forged 306 Short Block
-MMR Modified Tremec TKO(capable of 900hp and mid 9's at 135mph+)
-Spec Clutch
-Lakewood Shatterproof Bellhousing
-MMR Rear Girdle With Drain/Fill Plugs
-3:55 Gears(for better street/highway manners)
-C Clip Eliminators
-6pt Cage(non-intrusive)
-Re-paint(same color)

Here's the car I got my motor from. It was a 27000 mile 93 LX Notch that was built as a full drag car. It had a 10pt NHRA certified cage, built Level 10 AOD trans, 4400 stall converter, full drag suspension and a ton of other goodies. When I took the motor out for my car the notch was running consistant 10.60's/70's at the upper 120mph range and ran a best of 10.49 @ 129mph. Since then, the motor's been modified even more with the new DFI computer/tune, bigger injectors, new upper/lower intake and spacer, bigger throttle body and egr spacer(everything on the top end is port matched), new MSD box, new MSD Coil, A1000 Fuel Pump, and a few other odds and ends. Now, I know my car isn't setup for full drag, so it probably won't be quite as fast as the notch would have been, but I'm hoping for at least a low 11/high 10 second 1/4 mile.

Story Behind The Car:
This is the third time, that's right, third time I've owned this exact same car. It started off as the second car I ever owned. I bought it late my senior year of high school(April 2001). When I first got it, it had 85,000 original miles and a few basic bolt-ons. I actually taught myself how to drive it the night of senior prom because I was too impatient to wait for lessons and I wanted to arrive in style, lol,(I had never driven stick before that). Soon after, in October 2001, I traded the car for a 88 Firebird Formula, 305 TBI, automatic...eeeeww! I regretted it from day 1. I used to drive by the guy's house who I traded it to just to see how it was. When I finally decided I missed driving a Mustang and wanted another one, the guy I traded the car to said he was selling it for $2300 with a blown motor. I then bought the car for the second time. Because I planned on modifying the hell out of it, I dumped $4000 into rebuilding the motor with forged internals(JE pistons, Eagle rods, Scat crank). After over a month of waiting and a bunch of bullsh*t problems, I got it back...only to find that they didn't rebuild the heads...ASSHOLES!! At higher RPMs it would float the valves and lose power like it was out of breath. I couldn't afford to fix it, and the synchros in the tranny were feeling sketchy, so i sold it...again. I kept in touch with my friend who I sold it to and in August of 04, he told me he was selling it to get a 87-93 Mustang Coupe. He spent well over $12k fixing/modifying everything in the car, but he wanted to keep his motor. He told me if I found him a coupe, he'd trade and we could swap motors. So, I found a 10 second Vortech blown Notch, traded him and took the 10 second motor and fuel system for this car. Now my car's home to stay and badder than ever!

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