05-24-2018, 02:12 PM | #1 |
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Finally got to see a few '18 Mustangs run...
The local dragstrip finally opened up to the amateur racers last night after doing a full concrete re-pave over the winter. I wasn't able to get the Camaro out but since the track is a mile from where I work, I decided to stop by and do a little spectating/BS'n after I punched out.
In what it seems like an endless amount of mustangs that show up there every week, I spotted 2 2018 mustang GTs. The first had Michelin PS4's so I'm assuming it had the PP1 option. (I didn't get the opportunity to talk with the guy so I'm not 100% sure that it was) It was an A10 car and appeared to be completely stock. I watched it make 2 passes, a 12.49@114 and then a 12.52@114. There was only 1 2016 SS at the track and it, like the mustang appeared to be a bone stock automatic. I only seen it make one pass and it ran an identical 12.52 @ 114 just minutes after the mustang made its 12.52 pass. For what its worth, with yesterdays DA I would've been making passes in the 12.30's in my stock SS M6 so I think both drivers may have been babying there cars a little but their MPH was identical. Its a small sample size but it appears the A10 mustangs have at least caught up to the A8 Camaro's for now. Are they faster like everyone seems to claim? I have seen no evidence to support that. Honestly I think it depends on the driver at this point. There was another '18 A10 GT that ran an 11.98@115 and then a 12.00 at 117. I talked to the guy briefly. He had DR's, CAI, H-pipe, resonator delete and a Lund tune (he claimed it was the car they used to develop their tune on). It was nice to finally cut through all the BS and see what these cars do in the real world. I wish I could've recorded some video but its hard to record with my phone in one hand and my beer in the other.
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05-24-2018, 09:58 PM | #3 |
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This is the kind of info I was waiting for. Need to start going back to Palm Beach International Raceway again. The last time I was there it was still Moroso speedway. It's funny how the Mustangs trapped the same as the Camaro. The way people were carrying on, you'd think they'd outrun a ZL1.
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The thing is tho, seeing one with all those mods (DR's, CAI, H-pipe, resonator delete and a Lund tune) that barely cracked 11s in this weather says a lot. I doubt we'll see anyone match or beat the magazine times especially in this weather. Maybe once it gets cooler out again they'll get closer. Quote:
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Last Wednesday night at Atco I met an older mustang driver who said there is a guy who runs his 18 A10 GT at Atco who was running 11.8s stock. I have been to almost all the weekday T&Ts this spring and I never have seen this car. I did see a base no option except 3.55s white A10 GT run at Atco with 300 miles on the car. 12.4@114 as I remember. He was hoping for 11s. I wished him luck.
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05-25-2018, 11:10 AM | #7 |
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High DA in the spring/summer kills performance with the 6th gen high compression engines, we've felt that pain going on 3 years now, the 12:1 '18 Mustang guys are now sharing it too.
Well said. The internet creates more animosity than what really happens at the track. Most guys there are just trying to go faster and couldn't care less about brand loyalty.
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HAHAHAHHAHA low13s in a stock PI GT. If anyone believed that I would love to have what they were smoking. My 04 GT auto, bone stock in about 95-85* weather was about a 14.6-14.80 car. Took me a tune, 4.10s, CAI, midpipe, catback, FRPP B springs and Mickey Thompson DR to crack 13.99 with that car. Then once I got a better tune it was a consistent 13.70 car. Hell even my 3V never cracked 13s stock lol. All though I only ran it once stock. That was a 13.50 car once I got done with it, and made a best of 13.3 in mine shaft air. I'm still laughing at someone thinking a PI GT was a low 13 second car stock. |
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An official publication ran 12s with a stock ls1 car. At 108 mph IIRC.
Guess who... Evan Smith. In a ford magazine. They even admitted it was faster than the cobra of the same year They were normally mid to high 13s. Low 13s was a very good run. High 12s was achieved by a few but it was very very rare. A PI gt was no match for an ls1 car. The 3v couldn’t get it done either. It took them till 2011 to beat an ls1 from 1997 na to na. I guess one could bring up the cobra r from 2000 but that would be pretty desperate. |
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I don't know why people about what a car can do in someone else's hands anyway. If you can't do it, does it really matter?
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