Van Halen and the Shelby GT500

[SNIPER]

I had a Mustang that fell apart on me. Bought a Corvette that was 20 years older and is a better car by far. Gotta go with Chevy..

[vanhalen1r2]

I had a Mustang that fell apart on me. Bought a Corvette that was 20 years older and is a better car by far. Gotta go with Chevy..

I'm thinking about 2013 Z06, I almost pulled the trigger on an 11. I like to race all my old cars have been SBC powered 2nd gen 1970-1972 Camaros this Shelby is very much like an old school muscle car. I will be installing a Whipple 2.9 W/tune and kook headers I will be at the track 4-7-2012, I will post up how it does.

Cannot say enough good things about today's Camaros Challengers and "Rustsangs" The vette is completely different car.

Great song for the track is Everybody Wants Some.

[chefcraig]

I had a Mustang that fell apart on me. Bought a Corvette that was 20 years older and is a better car by far. Gotta go with Chevy..

I had a 1986 Mustang, as it was the second year of fuel injection and I figured Ford would have figured out all of the kinks. I was sadly mistaken. The engine was dubiously called a 5.0, which disguised the fact that all it was was a bored out 289. It used the same frame as the Mustang II abortion from the mid-seventies, a design lifted lock, stock and barrel from a fucking Pinto of all things. It even had the Pinto's combustibility issues, since the bumper was apparently made of flint and would have exploded in a rear end collision except Ford came up with a gas flow shut-off switch. I found this out the hard way after being involved in an accident in which a truck nailed my car in the ass, and I couldn't get it started again. I had to call a friend to find out where the switch was located.

And for some bizarre reason, the only tires that fit the peculiar sized rimes were Goodyear Eagles, at the time costing around 300-400 bucks each, which was a hell of a lot of money back then. I said fuck that, went to Hubcap Heaven and replaced them with the rims from a 1986 Thunderbird. Pretty soon, just about everyone else that owned a Mustang was doing the same thing.

The part about the car falling apart is sooo true. I literally drove mine into the ground, as sooner or later just about everything (from the tranny synchros to the driver's side mirror) either broke, stopped working or just plain fell off.

[Nitro Express]

I couldn't get my Range Rover started and after going through everything and pulling the fuel line and getting no pressure I finally tracked the problem down to the inertia fuel shutoff switch. Land Rover put it under the driver's seat and it's this little red plunger and you pull it up to engage the switch and you push it down to shut off the fuel pump. My kids were playing in the car and say this red plunger and pushed it down and shut down the fuel pump.

So if your car doesn't start that's one thing you want to check.

[chefcraig]

Yep, Ford even put one in my Ranger, for cryin' out loud. What a pain in the neck. If you overloaded it with drywall, the switch would close and you had to dig up the carpet on the passenger's side to find it and reset it.

[Nitro Express]

I had a Mustang that fell apart on me. Bought a Corvette that was 20 years older and is a better car by far. Gotta go with Chevy..

My daughter's boyfriend drives a 89 Corvette. I was helping him work on it and they are real easy cars to work on. Real easy access to everything. He needs a new top for it and they want crazy money for those but then it seems like trim and body type parts are always expensive.

[Nitro Express]

FORD sucks!

Camaros & Vettes baby! Fuck you all!




HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

What's funny is I have never owned a modern Ford vehicle. All mine are from the 30's and 20's. I have a model T, a model A, a model B, and a 34 deluxe coupe with a flathead V8 in it. All restored and all run. They were the bang for the buck cars in the day. Good steel, good brakes for the day, and good running gear. The flathead V8 blows head gaskets easy. All the trucks I have ever owned have been the bow tie. Really, I never had that many problems with Chevy's.

[ashstralia]

you guys know those new camaros are based on a platform developed and built here by holden in australia, right?
i think we're still exporting police cars over there as 'pontiacs' too.
you're welcome

[Nitro Express]

Yep, Ford even put one in my Ranger, for cryin' out loud. What a pain in the neck. If you overloaded it with drywall, the switch would close and you had to dig up the carpet on the passenger's side to find it and reset it.

The reason that switch is there is to stop the fuel pump if you get in an accident in case a fuel line breaks and you don't have fuel spraying all over the place. It's a safety feature. Land Rover has it where you just move the seat forward and reset it. You could always rewire the switch to where it's in an easier location to get to and even put in a new switch if the one you have is tripping off too easy.

I actually use it as a anti-theft device. Sometimes I go back packing and the car is just parked out in the boondocks for a few days. I figure most people aren't going to know about that switch so I disengage it before I head off.

[Nitro Express]

you guys know those new camaros are based on a platform developed and built here by holden in australia, right?
i think we're still exporting police cars over there as 'pontiacs' too.
you're welcome

I just bought a bunch of Aussi made shocks, springs, and brake pads. You guys make good stuff.

The Pontiac line has been discontinued. There is no Pontiac anymore.

[ashstralia]

aah, discontinued.

"Built by GM’s Australian subsidiary Holden, the G8 sedan first arrived in the U.S. as a 2009 model. While never a strong seller, the rear-wheel drive G8 offered performance rivaling that of some expensive imported sedans for a fraction of the cost. Consumer Reports was one of many media outlets to praise the G8 as something of a performance bargain. (See our Pontiac G8 road test, available to online subscribers.) But GM pulled the plug on the G8, along with the rest of the Pontiac line when the carmaker reorganized following bankruptcy."

[Nitro Express]

The father of the Mustang himself. I wish we had CEO's like him now.

[gbranton]

Man, I own a 1986 GT, where to start?

I had a 1986 Mustang, as it was the second year of fuel injection and I figured Ford would have figured out all of the kinks. I was sadly mistaken.

California only cars had a throttle body injection system starting in 1984 while other V-8 cars had a carb. The 1986 GT was the first year for sequential multi-port fuel injection for Federal cars. My car still has all the FI stuff intact from the factory and runs like a top.

The engine was dubiously called a 5.0, which disguised the fact that all it was was a bored out 289.

Uh, well the small block Ford came in displacements of 221, 260, 289, 302 and 351, all sharing a common 4.380" bore spacing. The 298s and 302s both have the same 4.000" bore. The 289 has a 2.870" stroke, whereas the 302 is a 3.000".

It used the same frame as the Mustang II abortion from the mid-seventies, a design lifted lock, stock and barrel from a fucking Pinto of all things. It even had the Pinto's combustibility issues, since the bumper was apparently made of flint and would have exploded in a rear end collision except Ford came up with a gas flow shut-off switch.\.

Pure fiction. The Mustang II was built from 1974-1978 on a modified Pinto chassis, the next generation Mustang was based on an all new platform, called the Fox platform, which first appeared in 1978 as a Fairmont/Zephyr/LTD. It shared nothing with the Pinto chassis and I have never heard of any fuel tank issues with Fox chassis cars.

And for some bizarre reason, the only tires that fit the peculiar sized rimes were Goodyear Eagles, at the time costing around 300-400 bucks each, which was a hell of a lot of money back then. I said fuck that, went to Hubcap Heaven and replaced them with the rims from a 1986 Thunderbird. Pretty soon, just about everyone else that owned a Mustang was doing the same thing.

I'll give you this one. I remember the wheels you are talking about, I had them on my 1984 GT. The TRX wheels were 390mm or 15.35" in diameter, so nether 15" nor 16" tires would fit on them. They first appeared on the 1979 Pace Car edition but Ford shit canned that bad idea before the 1985 model year. Only Goodyear and Michelin made tires to fit them, nobody stocked them and they were horrifically expensive.

[clarathecarrot]

Man, I own a 1986 GT, where to start?



California only cars had a throttle body injection system starting in 1984 while other V-8 cars had a carb. The 1986 GT was the first year for sequential multi-port fuel injection for Federal cars. My car still has all the FI stuff intact from the factory and runs like a top.



Uh, well the small block Ford came in displacements of 221, 260, 289, 302 and 351, all sharing a common 4.380" bore spacing. The 298s and 302s both have the same 4.000" bore. The 289 has a 2.870" stroke, whereas the 302 is a 3.000".



Pure fiction. The Mustang II was built from 1974-1978 on a modified Pinto chassis, the next generation Mustang was based on an all new platform, called the Fox platform, which first appeared in 1978 as a Fairmont/Zephyr/LTD. It shared nothing with the Pinto chassis and I have never heard of any fuel tank issues with Fox chassis cars.



I'll give you this one. I remember the wheels you are talking about, I had them on my 1984 GT. The TRX wheels were 390mm or 15.35" in diameter, so nether 15" nor 16" tires would fit on them. They first appeared on the 1979 Pace Car edition but Ford shit canned that bad idea before the 1985 model year. Only Goodyear and Michelin made tires to fit them, nobody stocked them and they were horrifically expensive.

So, I am like rolling with this 82 Berlinetta and this 85 YZ and the place is crawling with chicks.

and...it was like after rehabe in 86....and I am like any of you pussys who hit it up in rehab(insert cr thingy) ..well...suck it.

[VAiN]

Wow, lots of Mustang hate flowing here...

I've owned a '90.5 5.0 hatch and two '96 4V Cobras and have never had problems with any of them and trust me - I drove the fuck out of them. Every car was modified and driven hard.. The chevy equivalent car was no better, that's for sure.