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Specs & Mods
- Ownership Status
- Currently Own
- Year
- 2014
- S197 Model
- GT 5.0L
- Transmission
- Manual
- Mods - Handling
- New Boss S front lower control arms with Howe Racing extended ball joint studs, Delrin bushings, new extended stud tie rod ends installed and track alignment by Capaldi Racing.
Rear Grip kit from Kenny Brown Performance, includes LCA's and UCA with spherical rod ends, adjustable PHB and lowered roll center and deletes rear sway bar. New UCA axle side bushing.
Koni Yellow struts/shocks, Maximum Motorsports Road and Track springs (F360-380, R 280-360), MM camber plates, new OE strut top mounts.
Factory 4-Piston Brembos replaced with NIB OE Brembo calipers, 1-piece rotors, Goodrich SS lines, GLoc R16 pads, GS-1 street pads.
Brake cooling with 3" silicone through lower bumper trim.
GT500 rear caliper brackets with 13.7” 1-piece rotors, R10 GLoc pads, Goodrich SS lines.
New FP Hubs with ARP extended studs, Rear ARP extended studs.
Apex 19x11 EC-7 52ET Flow Formed wheels, 285/35 Bridgestone RE71-RS, 15mm spacer
Apex 18x11 SM-10RS 52ET Forged wheels, 295/35 Bridgestone RE-71RS, 20mm spacer
- Mods - Power
- X-pipe with Roush mufflers (loud)
FP Pro Cal II 93 octane tune
GT500 Cooling fan module
- Mods - Exterior
- Boss Valance Panel (DR3Z-17626-BA, aka splitter) and lower shield (BR3Z-17626-A, aka belly pan). These parts install together, the lower shield boxes in the bottom of the radiator to improve airflow.
Boss 302S Upper Grille (GT Grille & Fog Lights Deleted)
Roush Rear Spoiler 3-piece
Front/Rear Tow hooks
TrackSpec hood louvers in OE hood locations
- Mods - Interior
- Watson Racing 4-point Roll Cage with seat delete trim panels
Sparco QRT-R racing seat (driver)
Sabelt 6-point harness
MGW Race Spec Shifter
Boss Shift Knob
- Background & Plans
- This was a daily driven GT Track Pack with relatively low mileage (28K) and some street-look mods like decals (everywhere!!), tinted windows, lowering springs, cut/welded/hacked exhaust, and street parking bruises on both ends. It had been neglected from a maintenance perspective. The factory installed Recaro's were removed and replaced with base comfort seats (Really!?!).
Since I sold my 13 Boss 302 LS, my plan was to find and prep an S197 for HPDE and Time Trial. Selling the Boss was not one of my better ideas but...
Next is driver mods, plan is to progress through NASA HPDE2 and 3 in 2025.
