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Old 11-11-2007, 07:16 PM
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It was a 1989 ford mustang lx convertible, 75k miles original, I wanted to make a convertible fast becuase they were considered the underdog of the foxbody world because of the extra weight. The car weighed in at 3846lbs without me in it....so it was a 2 ton machine with me inside. I always run my cars at the track the same as I drive them on the street, so I was running in the mid to high 14's with it when I first got it. Well a few months after purchase I put a top end kit on it from trickflow which included street heat heads, stage 2 trick flow cam and street heat intake, long tube headers, 4.10's and a zex dry nitrous kit. Car ran in the low 13's at that point running nitto 555r drag radials, that was n/a then when i went and got the car tuned with the spray and ran it I blew the motor cause of a mediocre tune and 125 shot of dry nitrous my first run.

Im going to make a long story short, it now has a 347 stroker 10.5: 1 compression, forged internals, all arp hardware throughout te car, afr 185 heads, same intake, same exhaust, same gears, tremec tko 600 trans, nx express wet kit with a 150 shot, the car ran 12.10's all day long at 117mph with drag radials and only a 1.9 60 foot which left alot of et if I had ran slicks, the bad part was I was never able to run the spray becuase i had a vert and the rules were a little more strict, I would constantly get booted off the track for not having the proper safety equiptment. I owned it for 5 years and it killed many a corvette, trans am, camaro, mustang, gto, supra, you name it I hooked and booked when it came to the street racing.
I do miss the car alot, but I needed to sell it in order to purchase my first home which i do not regret, I love this house and im 24 years old and finally making something of myself, even though it cost me my most prized possession.


Frank
 
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Old 11-19-2007, 04:54 PM
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ORIGINAL: cleancaddy

It was a 1989 ford mustang lx convertible, 75k miles original, I wanted to make a convertible fast becuase they were considered the underdog of the foxbody world because of the extra weight. The car weighed in at 3846lbs without me in it....so it was a 2 ton machine with me inside. I always run my cars at the track the same as I drive them on the street, so I was running in the mid to high 14's with it when I first got it. Well a few months after purchase I put a top end kit on it from trickflow which included street heat heads, stage 2 trick flow cam and street heat intake, long tube headers, 4.10's and a zex dry nitrous kit. Car ran in the low 13's at that point running nitto 555r drag radials, that was n/a then when i went and got the car tuned with the spray and ran it I blew the motor cause of a mediocre tune and 125 shot of dry nitrous my first run.

Im going to make a long story short, it now has a 347 stroker 10.5: 1 compression, forged internals, all arp hardware throughout te car, afr 185 heads, same intake, same exhaust, same gears, tremec tko 600 trans, nx express wet kit with a 150 shot, the car ran 12.10's all day long at 117mph with drag radials and only a 1.9 60 foot which left alot of et if I had ran slicks, the bad part was I was never able to run the spray becuase i had a vert and the rules were a little more strict, I would constantly get booted off the track for not having the proper safety equiptment. I owned it for 5 years and it killed many a corvette, trans am, camaro, mustang, gto, supra, you name it I hooked and booked when it came to the street racing.
I do miss the car alot, but I needed to sell it in order to purchase my first home which i do not regret, I love this house and im 24 years old and finally making something of myself, even though it cost me my most prized possession.


Frank
The '89 LX .... got any pictures? love to see what you did and if you have "work in progress" when you did it, love to see that also.





 
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Old 11-19-2007, 09:08 PM
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Here is a video of me doing some drifting and doughnuts
http://saleenpower.com/vids/franksdougnuts.wmv

Heres a video of me racing a 98 cobra with a few mods: its the first race
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf-zciif2yE

This is some more street action im bout the 4th or 5th race against a heavily modded c5 vette...we are the ones that say 123 go...we raced 3 times in that vid
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/a...1300356eef.htm

Some pics
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...3/P4190047.jpg

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...3/P4190047.jpg

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...3/P4190042.jpg

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...3/100_0980.jpf



 
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Old 11-21-2007, 04:52 PM
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Just curious if you are using the e brake?
 
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Old 02-02-2008, 12:40 AM
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props for you bro. You chose the right thing to build up.
 
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