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Originally Posted by oldman
As I've said if you were really there, you knew the Mustang was a light cheap platform very flexible and the rear was unstable. Yikes. The auto IROCK ran a 14.5 and the 5.0 notch ran a 14.9... The article says the firm shifting auto gave up nothing to the 5.0's manual. These are editors not engineers. It was the broad torque band of the TPI that let the 350 pull the heavier car and the slush box along thank you.
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I was there. Well, not with an IROC, but back then I ordered a new 1984 H.O. L69 Z28 5-speed. The car was like an athlete, but the ride was like a skateboard. A few years into ownership, a co-worker said his 5.0 Capri could take my Z28. I didn't believe him for one second. But a few days later he got next to me out of nowhere on the highway and challenged me, and his car just walked away. I couldn't believe how much faster it was. The 5.0 in that article was the 1986, but the peak came in 1987, and that's what the Capri was. A few years later, I ditched the Camaro and went to an '87 Mustang GT. That car was a lot of fun.