Dallas Fort Worth 5.0 Mustang Club - Newbie with a 5.0 stroker

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Newbie with a 5.0 stroker

Whats up everyone. I'm a member on a multitude of other mustang forums but just got invited to this one as well! I'm in Lewisville and today just picked up a 2003 Mach 1 fully forged 5.0 stroker. Dyno sheet shows its making about 411 HP N/A on race gas. The car is more set up for drag racing but over time I'll be pulling on the SRA and QA1 front suspension and replacing it with a Cobra IRS that I'm building along with a full MM setup up front. This is what I picked up today:

http://i.imgur.com/gBGtG.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/CIP48.jpg

Tomorrow morning I'll be removing the billet grille and putting in the Mach 1 delete and then swapping my wheels from my current 1999 GT:

http://i.imgur.com/BWbv6.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/OpFTh.jpg

I was going to build the car shown above but decided I'd save a ton of cash getting a car that already has a lot of the modifications already done to it. Plus the Mach 1 has 48k miles whereas the GT has 128k miles on it. If I could, I would swap the GT suspension set up over to get the same stance on the Mach 1, but with the tubular front end on the Mach, can't reuse my H&R SSs.

So anyway, thats my current situation and I look forward to perhaps meeting some of you guys at some future GTGs.

-Barton

Looks like you take damn good care of that 99. Welcome.

Welcome. Glad to see you made it over. :)

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Originally Posted by Phuck Phace (Post 9492)

Looks like you take damn good care of that 99. Welcome.

I definitely try. Its got its areas of paint fade but I guess its to be expected with a 13 year old car, but I try to keep it in as good of shape as possible.

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Originally Posted by Steve (Post 9497)

Welcome. Glad to see you made it over. :)

Thank you!

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Originally Posted by PLASMAN (Post 9487)

Welcome barton

Thanks! I can already tell the environment is much less hostile than good ol' DFWM... nice to see:hands:

welcome & nice rides

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Originally Posted by brtnstrns (Post 9504)

I definitely try. Its got its areas of paint fade but I guess its to be expected with a 13 year old car, but I try to keep it in as good of shape as possible.

Thank you!

Thanks! I can already tell the environment is much less hostile than good ol' DFWM... nice to see:hands:

Welcome bra bra!

And yeah they're some really good guys on this forum.

Thanks everyone! Started tearing into the car yesterday and its gonna need a few things before I feel like its street ready. New tires, legal brake lights and the front sway bar reattached among a few other this and thats. Its all good though because I wanted a car that I could still work on :cheers: