[Shotimes] (OT) Early '05 Mustang GT performance data

[DAVE]

I've gotta agree with Ron atleast they caught it and held up the sale and shipping......... They could have done the GM route with the 3.4 V6 and sold a ton of them with leaking manifold gaskets that let coolant leak into the valley and wipe the cam out of the car rendering the engine a boat anchor and deny the whole freaking thing ever happened......But offer a revised gasket set that fixes the problem that's not really there.
Dave

Ron Porter <ronporter@prodigy.net> wrote:
Two things, though:

The mfrs seem to be better about catching problems (well, sometimes with
owners help!!) than in the past

Ford has corrected the engine issues.....obviously except for the V8 SHO.

Ford isn't the only one, others have had engine issues, also, in the recent
past.

Ron Porter

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To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] (OT) Early '05 Mustang GT performance data


Did you see on Blue Oval news that sale and shipping of the 
new Mustang and some trucks are being stopped due to faulty 
heads (V8 only)? Supposedly the CR is off.

Gee, Ford shipping a vehicle with a faulty engine?

let's see
Cobra, BAD
SHO, BAD
New Mustang and trucks, BAD

They really need to get their act together.

Don Mallinson

mkelley1@gt.rr.com wrote:

> The November issue of MT has some early performance test data on the '05
> Mustang GT: 13.6 secs @ 99 in the quarter, 5.1 secs 0-60. Oh yeah, almost
> forgot...that's with an AUTOMATIC! They attributed the low trap speed to
> the fact that the auto shifted into 4th (O/D gear) before the end of the
> quarter. They estimate from their testing that the manual will be low 13s
> and 0-60 under 5 seconds. All that plus better handling and build quality
> (something else MT pointed out was how well it was put together) for only
> $25K MSRP.
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