A Canadian Mustang in Texas
Specs & Mods
- Ownership Status
- Currently Own
- Year
- 2005
- S197 Model
- GT 4.6L
- Transmission
- Manual
- Mods - Handling
- Whiteline front and rear sway bars, springs and panhard bar, Koni Orange shocks, Vorshlag Camber plates, Apex 18x11s with 315 Falken 615k+, Ford Racing front hubs with ARP studs, BMR rear adjustable lower control arms (poly), BMR non-adjustable lower control arms (poly), Brembo six piston front brakes from S550 with GLoc G12 pads on Girodisc rotors, GT500 13.8 rear brakes with Gloc G10 pads on Brembo rotors.
- Mods - Power
- Lito Tune, Department of Boost GT450 Supercharger, electric power steering, electric water pump, catless H-Pipe
- Mods - Exterior
- Cervini ram air hood, Roush Spoilers, Cervini (MDT) rear louvers, speed dimples (hail damage), TruFiber Carbon Fiber trunk and vented front fenders.
- Mods - Interior
- Recaro Seats from 2011 Mustang, Garmin Catalyst, Maximum Motorsports Roll Bar, Schroth 6 point harness, Fire extinguisher
- Background & Plans
- I bought the car new in 2005 and drove it every day. When I moved to Texas from Ontario Canada in 2015, I could not leave it behind. In late 2019, a buddy invited me to try a weekend HPDE at a local track and I was instantly hooked. I love this car and fully know that it would be cheaper to buy a new one. Up until now I've been replacing worn out, rusty components as they fail and working on getting more seat time. Pretty much everything between the chassis and the pavement has been replaced at this point.
My goal is to make my Mustang a bulletproof, fast car that is street legal and still looks mean and start doing time trials.
Done:
Apex 18x11s (square) with 315 200TW tires
6 piston Brembos in the front with Girodisc rotors
Maximum Motorsports Roll bar and six point harnesses
Trufiber fenders and junkyard door replacement
EPAS conversion
Department of Boost GT450 with 30GPM cooling setup
Mishimoto radiator
Meziere water pump (55GPM)
Whiteline swaybar, panhard bar, spings
Koni Orange dampers
GT500 Cooling Fans
Doing:
- New steering wheel (in progress)
- MGW Short Throw Shifter (in progress)
To do:
- Hood vents
- Oil Cooler
- Fan Relay Mod
- Box the radiator
- Finish pulling out hail dents
- get the car wrapped or painted
