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Ford MustangThe Mustang remains one of the most widely recognized, respected, and desired nameplates in the automobile business. The Ford Mustang defined the pony-car segment in 1964; Plymouth's Barracuda may have beaten Ford to the showroom by 16 days, but it was the Mustang that set the sales records. The 'Cuda is gone now leaving Ford's pony to prance alone.
anybody have any thoughts or comments on the two? I recently bought a 2007 Ford Shelby GT 500 and some people were telling that the new Chevorlet Camaro was faster off the line and in the quarter mile depite the new gt 500 engine. I was wondering what you guys thought.
GT 500 is very heavy. I have not seen the numbers on a new Camaro yet, so I can't compare the 2. Certain magazines have gotten the GT 500 to run 12.2 in the quarter-mile. With some simple mods, it should absolutely smoke any staock Camaro...
I was gonna say the same thing... the Camaro has to be a couple hundred pounds lighter than the GT500. But there is more potential there in the GT500. Keep your car... and just think about doing a few minor mods and you should have no problems.
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The new camaro will probably be a 300ish hp base model, if they are going to make a car faster then the GT500 it will probably be a higher preformance(SS) model. As far as I've heard Chevy doesn't have any plans for that. Nice car BTW.
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Last edited by 351BOSS429; 02-24-2007 at 08:15 AM.
The 07 Shelby's have a projected 500 HP and 12.9 1/4 mile time straight out of the factory.
The 08 Camaro is projected to have only 400 HP (LS2 V-8).
If the extra hundred hp isn't a big enough advantage, try putting in 4:10 gears. Gears will make a HUGE difference and their relatively cheap. i'm not sure what the stock gear ratio is for the 07's, but 4:10's are gonna get you off the line in a hurry.
P.S. And could a Chevy ever really beat a Ford? Honestly
They totally screwed up with the Shelby. Same cheap suspension. I`d jump on the Roush instead. Cheaper and would be considered the same speed just because of suspension.
the gt500 would smoke the new camaros.any time of the day. the new camaros only have 300 - 400 hp stock depends whats in it they put two diff engines in it.
i agree with some of the people here, yes if the GT500 is not already faster than the new camaro, then yes a few mods would make it faster, but then again, whos to say you wont be going against a modified camaro, if the camaro is already faster, without mods, then with mods it would still be faster, same issue with the 3rdgen camaros, and 5.0 mustangs, camaro beats the 5.0 stock, but when 5.0's are modified, the stock camaro looses, then the camaro gets mods, BAM it becomes faster than the 5.0 once again.
Ford's working on a new 7.0 liter, and I've heard that they are going to rework their V8. I think right now they are undergunned. The gt500 is a 5.4 right? Pretty much all stock mustangs are 4.6 even worse. GM's LS2 is 6.0 ~36 cubes bigger than fords biggest v8 and ~79 cubes bigger than the average mustang. It will be great to see Ford take new approach to the V8.
I'm looking forward to something (realisticly) like
4.125" bore
3.5" stroke
DOHC
As for what Camaros are beast said...
With foxes and 3rd gens. The 5.0 302 stomped the 305s. You got about .125" more bore, .48" less stroke, a much more agressive camshaft, far less bore shrouding, better heads, better exhaust manifolds and dual exhaust. Its a little bit harder for a 302 to keep up with a 350 though. Down on 48 cubes again though so i wonder why its hard to keep up. I think it would have been great if Ford would have built a stock 351 fox. I think a big part of it was that Ford kept the early fox mustangs as economy cars.
Oh and all this is coming from a guy with over $6,000 in his 89 firebird.
305 .060 over
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Melling tourqe cam .424"/.443" 204°/214°
Cloyes double roller timing chain 2° advanced
Edelbrock EPS intake
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fFowtech shorty headers and Flowtech y-pipe, no cats
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Get ready for the 351 boss build this summer, 4v closed chamber heads, 2.25/1.75 valves, .750 lift, 12.5:1 piistons, wieand tunnel ram, nitrous, I think its gonna roar!
i agree with some of the people here, yes if the GT500 is not already faster than the new camaro, then yes a few mods would make it faster, but then again, whos to say you wont be going against a modified camaro, if the camaro is already faster, without mods, then with mods it would still be faster, same issue with the 3rdgen camaros, and 5.0 mustangs, camaro beats the 5.0 stock, but when 5.0's are modified, the stock camaro looses, then the camaro gets mods, BAM it becomes faster than the 5.0 once again.
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