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Cool, thank you for the replies regarding tuning. In my mind I was thinking that the tuning discussion was by having it tuned by a shop on the dyno and I wondered what all was being tweaked.

I've never really put much "faith" into the handheld tuners/chips with a naturally aspirated gas engine. Back when I dragraced, years ago, I tried a chip on my '89 5.0 and I noticed no noticeable gains on it (ie - ET's were still the same at the track). My only positive experience with a hand-held tuner was with my '01 Ford Excursion 7.3 Diesel 4x4, which is a turbo...I had the Superchips Tuner....WOW, talk about a difference! That thing drove like a BEAST! I've since heard, but not yet experienced, that the handheld tuners for the new generation of naturally aspirated performance gas engines does help. Just wondered how much. I tell you, I'd like to defeat the 137 mph top-end limiter on my wife's G8 GT, that's for sure!

The best tweak/tune I made to my old 5.0 was the high pressure/flow fuel pump (155liter/hr from what I recall?) and the fuel pressure (adjustable fuel pressure regulator with gauge). I went from running 7.70's to 7.20's in the 1/8 mile just be giving it enough fuel, granted, this was on a very mild NOS setup but it just was starving for fuel. The 60 foot times were essentially the same but more fuel made a huge difference after that!

What I'm wanting to know is the cost of a tune (as in having a performance car tuner tweak/tune the car) and what exactly that entails?

PUCKER wrote:Help me out here, school me on what a current tune is, say, on one of the new 5.0 cars, what all does it entail, cost, etc.?

A 12.22 is AWESOME!!!!!! I remember breaking into the 12's in 1991 or so with my mildy tweaked '89 GT 5.0, for a street car, that was FAST back then!

budroux2w wrote: Gears and a tune.

Real life track report, with a stock car, regular driver shows the car running 12 second 1/4 mile in mid 90 degree temp.

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Help me out here, school me on what a current tune is, say, on one of the new 5.0 cars, what all does it entail, cost, etc.?

A 12.22 is AWESOME!!!!!! I remember breaking into the 12's in 1991 or so with my mildy tweaked '89 GT 5.0, for a street car, that was FAST back then!

budroux2w wrote: Gears and a tune.

Real life track report, with a stock car, regular driver shows the car running 12 second 1/4 mile in mid 90 degree temp.

http://www.usamustangs.com/forum/showth ... post171325" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I'd be MORE than happy to have any of the new breed of muscle cars in my garage!

Regarding what the magazines have to say - they had professional drivers with a certain set of cars. I can tell you from my past 5.0 drag racing experience that not every driver and/or 5.0/Camaro (etc) will be able to run the "established" numbers, some run better, some run worse. But who keeps one of those cars "stock" anyway?

In my amateur-benchracing opinion - it comes down to the driver most of the time unless you are talking about a *huge* performance advantage. If you guys haven't ever made a pass down the local dragstrip then I *highly* encourage it! It will make you a MUCH better driver (well, at least straight-line/wide-open anyway!) and you'll learn/feel more about what your car is doing...and then there's autocross too. It's been years for me though, but I still have the memories, and a few timeslips somewhere!

Very nice!!!

I've been a die-hard Ford fan for pretty much my whole life. I had a '89 Mustang GT 5.0 that eventually turned into a drag car, I started a local Mustang club years ago. My wife has had two Mustangs (a '00 plain jane and then an '03 GT convertible - that was FUN!). Currently Mustang-less (she and I, I drive a Jeep). She traded the Stang in on a CTS Caddy (NO, not the V!). Then she got a an '08 Pontiac G8 GT (she only wanted the v6 version, but SHUCKS, all they had was the GT, you know the 362 HP or so 6.0 V8...hehehe ). It's a sleeper/screamer of a sedan that leaves people scratching their heads! Then the new Camaro came out, with the 426 HP 6.2 V8...and I saw the preview of the convertible...so now I'm drooling over that....and THEN Ford comes out with the 5.0....sheeeeeeeesh, take it easy on me....I don't have enough $$$$ or enough garage space for all these toys (that I want but don't have)....and then I'm starting to get motorcycle fever again....LOL....but I have two boats too many right now...LOL