Thinking about staying emissions legal. Just want axlebacks. Feel like there is no middle ground between gt500 and Roush

I'm with you on that. While I like some of the benefits of mods which make performance cars "less than legal", I feel the risk and bother of fines and being stopped far outweighs the minimum benefits as it pertains to performance and/or appearance/sound.

GT500's are perfect IMO. You have yours installed already? If so, vids and pics please! :)

Red, I think middle ground between those two are the FRPP sports, or Borla Touring or S-type. But IMO, too much $$$ for axlebacks.

The Roush at first sounded good, but after listening to a lot more clips, they're definitely too loud... and not in a good way either :shakes head:

Dan hurry up and make a decision.

It seems like you're worried about being too loud so I'd go with the GT500s. You can always make them louder if you want via a resonator delete or selling them for something louder.

Too much work. I don't like how the gt500s look either

Then get the FRPP Sports.

for 250ish new, I'd probably sell mine too if I decide to switch it up in the future.

You don't like the single walled look, Dan? Or do you mean the actual mufflers? I wish the mufflers were all stainless too, but, good thing it's more underneath the car so I'm ok with that.

You can just paint the cans black and they will disappear.

If i had $700 to drop right now I'd have your koni's

You never had my konis. You never had $700.

Just kinda want a ballsier look

:bowrofl:

The one thing I don't like about rear-mounted mufflers is that the tips are so short. On my old Mustang the mufflers were located right ahead of the rear axle so the tips were like 16" long chrome cannons of badass. :icon17:

Because we know how much you love the look of balls Dan :bowrofl:

:(

I like the bright look on the back of the car though.

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Best quotes thread submission perhaps?

Killed it by nominating yourself :shakes head:

:iagree:

That look was sweet, feel like it wouldnt look right on the s197 though.

:(

So, there has been a lot of talk recently about banning all of the 5.owners from the site. As most of you know, my second account (third acct really) is a mod account. So I've been thinking about this very seriously lately. I've come up with the following risk benefit analysis of banning all Mustang owners.

Benefits

• Getting rid of all Mustangs would return this site to the heady days when the 370z was the best performance buy for the money (other than GenCoupes and M3's). We could pretend Mustangs don't exist.
• We can talk all the smack we like about stangs. Bench racers and rag statisticians will love the opportunity to talk about how Stangs are "made for straights, but can't handle" and have "ancient SRA tech".
• There would be no more condescension, because as we know, all 370z owners get along and never fight amongst themselves.
• The site would be prettier and better balanced

Risks

• Mustang owners are great cuddlers. We would miss spooning with them in the early morning dew.
• Because Race Car
• 5.0 liters of American "cause I told you so"
• We would lose the perspective of owners of performance cars with decent pickup and a Front engine, Rear wheel drive layout.
• The Z needs to look pretty parked next to something.

I say we let them stick around. :tiphat:

Steve... thanks for this. So are these parts the BOSS splitter and GT/CS front fascia respectively? And they're OEM parts right?



Also another question for you guys. Have you heard of these MGW shifters? Anyone have any experience in their 2011+? Read a lot of good things. Wondering if it's worth the 375 bucks.

SVTPerformance MGW Omnibus : MGW MT-82 Shifter Preview, Install, and Review - SVTPerformance

Yep, OEM parts.

MGW makes great stuff. I wouldn't hesitate to go with their shifter. If I get one that will be it.

^ also, I tried that site and entered those part #'s, and it's either not the right part # or they don't sell it anymore. Price and part # are different :(

i'll acknowledge your acknowledgements :icon18:

Wai you delete? I raffed. Was trying to come up with a clever response.

theres only 5 of us....i get enough **** at our Z meets about it :)

ok. I'll repoast. It was getting buried. And I thought I was annoying Steve and From.

Shado I have learned to live with your trollish ways. In fact, I now have feelings of affection towards you. I like to call it Shadoholm Syndrome.

You have to admit it's at least a little funny. The thought that we should rid the forum of technical and friendly members just because they moved from the Z to another performance car. It's ridiculous. I don't want you guys to go.

Look at some of the guys who've gone from a Z to a 5.0

• m4a1
• red__zed
• red370
• Pushing Tin
• Modshack
• From
• GZ3

There's a couple more. But that's a group of users who've been helpful and friendly on here. Some of these guys left or at least don't post as much here anymore. But none of you guys has worn out your welcome.

It bothers me that some Z fanbois have said "ban stang owners", because frankly, most of the guys trumpeting that message haven't contributed as much.

It's slightly annoying, but you're right, those are the members that couldn't tell a wrench from an ice cream cone, so it's not that big of a deal.

One thing to note is that Modshack has already moved on to his 61st (I think) car. He's in a new GTI now.

Edit: Also wanted to add that I can tell the difference between the guys that are just joking and the ones that are serious. There are only a couple that are actually serious.

:iagree:

I like to give them a hard time, but it's all in good fun. They're honestly the guys I'm learn the most stuff from on here.

:icon17::rofl2::bowrofl:


That enough to feed your ego?
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My ego's appetite is as big as mine, and you've seen my belly.

So true. Funniest part is at least one of the true haters will turn around and pm me for z help...next time I'm explaining wheel offset wrong:roflpuke2:


Guys like you and shado are obviously just kidding. It's funny for the most part:icon17:

:icon17:

I do whatever I can to extend an olive branch, so if some d-bag needs help and I can help him I usually will do it. Maybe it will help sway their opinions in the right direction. But probably not. :rofl2:

I do run jokes into the ground, so I'm sure it can grate on you guys. But inside, we're all car guys, and we can all respect each other's rides, even if that's not the car for us.

I've always tried to help. The guy in question spammed me with about 400 pm's/emails just saying "mustangs suck"...his technical question got "lost"