I bought my 5.0 back in September, where the previous owner showed me a slip of the car running a 13.8 1/4 mile. I recently found out a stock 91 runs a 14.7. He claims the only mod is a stage 3 bronze clutch. Im pretty sure a clutch won't knock nearly a second off my time, but what else could it be? I know the owner ot be an honest person so I don't think he is lieng. Could I be missing something?

Post a picture of your engine. We might be able to tell if you have something done to it. Why don't you simply ask him?

maybe he redid the gears and ran on drag radials

I already asked, he said it's bone stock except for the clutch and rear springs. I'll try to get a picture, but I have cold-air intake now.

moved to non spec


there is the posibility that this car is just a factory freak

Maybe he just got it to hook up off the line, I've seen a lot of stock and modded Stangs at the strip and the one thing they mostly all had in common was blistering the treads off the line, no matter how much they tried they just couldn't hook it up from a dig or or else they bogged the engine badly. Unless they ran Drag Radials or Slicks it was almost always a very smokey start down the track.

Software?

Software?
It's domestic, I'd really doubt that they would have software for it. I don't even think it's fuel injected.

It's domestic, I'd really doubt that they would have software for it. I don't even think it's fuel injected.

I don't think they've put a carb'd motor in a car since like..1980?

I don't think a simple computer mod (not sure what they had) would knock that kind of time off. Good Conditions (track/weather), and a good launch could have made all the difference.

It's domestic, I'd really doubt that they would have software for it. I don't even think it's fuel injected.



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I don't think they've put a carb'd motor in a car since like..1980?

85 manual cars were the last year of carb'd, 85 auto 5.0 had CFI

My car is deffinately fuel injected...lol

I don't think they've put a carb'd motor in a car since like..1980?


Not true, my Blazer was a 1986 and it had a carb'd 350 in it.

I know there is a car company that still used carbs up untill the early 90s, But the name is slipping my mind at the moment. I just had this conversation a while back...

he's talking abot ford, redneck.

Not true, my Blazer was a 1986 and it had a carb'd 350 in it.

I know there is a car company that still used carbs up untill the early 90s, But the name is slipping my mind at the moment. I just had this conversation a while back...


Just sit in a ya Z and smile if you can't pay attention! :smokin: