Newbie with a 5.0 stroker

[brtnstrns]

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:




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:




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

[PLASMAN]

Welcome barton

[Phuck Phace]

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

[Grandpa]

Welcome. Glad to see you made it over.

[brtnstrns]

Originally Posted by Phuck Phace 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.

Originally Posted by Steve Welcome. Glad to see you made it over.

Thank you!

Originally Posted by PLASMAN Welcome barton

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

[StormTrooper]

welcome & nice rides

[GunsUp]

Originally Posted by brtnstrns 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

Welcome bra bra!

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

[TrueStreetMotorSports.com]

Welcome!!

[juiced86stang]

Welcome!!

[11bangbang]

Welcome

[brtnstrns]

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