Fox Body Mustang 5.0

[nj636]

Originally Posted by mrsilent13

yea ive been thinking about getting 3.55 gears....just cuz i like to have some fun at times...i do plan on supercharging in the future

so much for your MPG goal

[mrsilent13]

With forced induction and staying out of boost you actually do get better gas mileage than a naturally aspirated vehicle. That is after getting it properly tuned. So my goal is still not far fetched even with a supercharger..

[mrsilent13]

Basically with forced induction the engine does less work since your force feeding all this air into it which when ur out of boost and like I said tuned properly...the car runs slightly leaner which in turn gets you better mileage...my old 2.2 cobalt after i turbocharged went from wAtever is stock mileage to 45mpg.. This was staying out of boost and driving normally... Now once I got to having fun in it mileage would drop to about 18mpg. Which would only happen on spirited driving on canyons or actually going to the track.

[nj636]

takes power to turn the supercharger
bigger injectors
safe fat tune

I'm subscribed

[mrsilent13]

Well I already dropped in the bigger injectors... Basically she's all ready just for the bolt on... It does take power turn the supercharger but it really isn't that much as people think. Centrifulgal supercharges are very efficient unlike root style superchargers

[nj636]

Originally Posted by mrsilent13

Well I already dropped in the bigger injectors... Basically she's all ready just for the bolt on... It does take power turn the supercharger but it really isn't that much as people think. Centrifulgal supercharges are very efficient unlike root style superchargers

your using 24's with the supercharger? how many pounds of boost you looking at?

[Beau]

Originally Posted by mcrews

I have a soft spot in my heart for mustangs. My first car in 1975 was a 66 coupe w/straight 200ci 6cyl.

I also owned on of these w/ the 2.3liter turbo!

Funny, my first car in 1975 was also a 66 coupe w/straight 200ci 6cyl.

Oh, there is a great website mostly dedicated to the 200ci six.

[mrsilent13]

Originally Posted by nj636

your using 24's with the supercharger? how many pounds of boost you looking at?

No supercharger yet but I plan on going with the vortech basic kit which is a 6-8psi kit

[Domman56]

Awesome man welcome to the Forum. You'll get alotta slack about performance tuning for mileage but at te end of the day it's still your car. It's actually the motive behind alotta new muscle car builds. Older body styles for the look and styling and newer more advanced motors so you're still saving gas and running more efficiently. And I see you're from LA Maybe I'll see ya at one of the tracks around home some day

[nj636]

Originally Posted by mrsilent13

No supercharger yet but I plan on going with the vortech basic kit which is a 6-8psi kit

with 24# injectors?