1982 Mustang GT

[Capt Worley PE]

This was the car that re-started the hp war. It's kinda neat to look back 30 years and see what was considered a ground-pounder back then.

http://www.motortren...ve/viewall.html

More info on the evolution here: http://www.mustanggt.org/82gt.htm

 

[Master slacker]

That's awesome. I find the tire size particularly amusing.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

I remember some folks that had the GTs with TRX package wheel/tires were searching desperately for alternative rims by 1988. You couldn't get those eurospec tires in NA very long.

Dang good looking wheels, though.

 

[wilheldp_PE]

It may be historic, but it's also the ugliest Mustang body design by far.

 

[Supe]

It may be historic, but it's also the ugliest Mustang body design by far.

The mid 70's/Mustang II's say otherwise.

 

[helwardman]

Those 1980's Mustangs are the ugliest of all Mustangs.....seriously dreadful. From the back they look just like the 1980s/90s European Ford Escort....I'm sure they shared body panels.

 

[cdcengineer]

My first car was a used 1986 Mustang. Bought it from the original owner (a nurse) who babied it. It was a fun little car. I wanted a 66 fastback, but dad said hell no. Even though I bought it with my own money he wasn't allowing a fixer-upper in the house.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

It may be historic, but it's also the ugliest Mustang body design by far.

The mid 70's/Mustang II's say otherwise.

Just putting 15" rims on them makes a huge difference, but, yeah, they weren't as good looking as the Fox-bods were.

I do prefer the looks of the early, four headlight versions to the aero-lamp versions.

 

[MGX]

I prefer the SVO turbo four banger to the five point slow. Hard to find but easy to build. The foxes never took high torque well.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

I prefer the SVO turbo four banger to the five point slow. Hard to find but easy to build. The foxes never took high torque well.

Big trend in the 90s was swapping the 5.0 into an SVO. Pretty popular swap in GA and SC.

 

[MGX]

Remember the supercoupe thunderbirds? Those were a blast. We had an SVO in our shop and it ran almost as hard as a 5.0 but without the weight. Never saw much of a difference in fuel mileage either. I just want to be different.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

Yeah, I remember drooling over a 35th anniversary Supercoupe back in the day.

SVO and 5.0 weighed about the same. The Lima Four was godawful heavy.

That four could take some boost, but the boosted and bled era was a good half decade away when the SVO's were getting their fours yanked.

 

[MGX]

We farted with them in the late '90s because we couldn't afford newer cool cars (I graduated HS in '99). One could adjust the blowoff pressure in those if you knew what you were doing. Not sure modern turbos will allow a redneck to do that today.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

We farted with them in the late '90s because we couldn't afford newer cool cars (I graduated HS in '99). One could adjust the blowoff pressure in those if you knew what you were doing. Not sure modern turbos will allow a redneck to do that today.

The new ones, probably not.

I was into the turbo Dodges back in the late nineties-early aughts. The computers supported bleeding to 15psi, but after that, you had to add a fifth injector and an monitor the O2 levels in the exhaust to make sure you weren't leaning it out. I think turbododge.com is still active, but back in the late nineties, early aughts, all that stuff went down on the mailing lists.