totally curious...what's mike drive?
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Shop truck (Anita's) is an 04 Supercrew 4x4 with Roush SC, full length headers and a very healthy tune, Mikes 01 silver Lightning makes around 650+ HP and will go deep into the 11's, and his 04 Cobra which has been a work in progress will take your breath away.....and when complete will more than likely be 9 sec capable.....
(he only tuned my 03 Cobra to go 11:20's, maybe I should be upset)
(he only tuned my 03 Cobra to go 11:20's, maybe I should be upset)
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When he lined up against my truck at the tree he was driving a Lincoln MarkVIII, he had junk in the trunk and still beat me.
I also remember him saying to the tech inspector as they looked under the hood,
"Bone Stock", and he said it so matter of factly and with such a straight face, it would have made George Bush blush.
I also remember him saying to the tech inspector as they looked under the hood,
"Bone Stock", and he said it so matter of factly and with such a straight face, it would have made George Bush blush.
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damnit that's awesome. I just ordered two high flow cats from the website on saturday. after they come and I get paid again I'm getting an xcal2. I'm gonna tell him on the phone "make all my tunes for 93." **** gas mileage.
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Originally Posted by Raoul
When he lined up against my truck at the tree he was driving a Lincoln MarkVIII, he had junk in the trunk and still beat me.
That wasn't junk to me!I guess you spooked him with that truck of yours Raoul, because when I met up with them they were in the process of aquiring these:
You spooked them alright. Look what you've turned them into!
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This thread is a riot, and I'm glad to see it brought back some old friends - especially Tom & Raoul!!!
We've been thru many vehicles of course - Wittom was with us during one of our past National F-150 Online Rallys (and Raoul used to come to every one), he spent the better part of a day with my wife & I at a Ford dealership when she was getting her 2001 F-150 4x4, and I decided to go ahead and pick up a new Lightning that same day - but didn't tell her about it until a couple of days later - I took delivery of it on the side of the Interstate at a gas station - literally! The guy from the dealership I deal with met me halfway, and we swapped vehicles there.
That old 1995 Lincoln Mark 8 Raoul is talking about I still miss, as it was a great high-speed highway cruiser - and it basically was stock, it only had a tune, a driveshaft, and a quiet exhaust on it - it later got 4.11 gears and went into the 13's on a bone-stock motor - it really wasn't anyhting special, it was jsut a comfortable highway cruiser, nothing more. Now my 1994 Mark 8 ran 164 mph, and got it into the 12's before I got bored with it.
I used to be a Corvette nut, & have owned 13 of them - but that was a logn time ago, we have been bleeding Ford blue for a long time now.
To answer the questions, our current stable consists of a 2004 5.4 3V Roushcharged F-150, a low 11 second Lightning (which could go 10's with just a tad more work), a 2004 Cobra, which is as Marc said, a work in progress, though it will still take your breath away if you aren't used to it. Between it's power and especially the rear suspension work to make it hook, it pulls extremely hard, accelerating just as hard at 100 mph as it does at 60 mph. It saw 155 the other day on a quick burst on the Interstate (I tune some law enforcement cars around here, so there are fringe benefits to that), but the rear end starts floating up at about 170 or so - it needs a rear wing to keep the rear on the ground on a higher speed run, but I hate running them on the street. It basically lacks the 26 spline shaft, a better clutch, and a set of 1000 hp rear axles to hit the high 9's, we figure. Lord only knows when we'll get back to working on it - no time soon, I fear!!
I was within $2K of getting a 2007 Shelby GT500, but I just refuse to pay what dealers want for them especially considering that I get A-plan pricing on all our FoMoCo vehicles. I had one dealer that would take 7K over sticker, I would only go $5K over, and for me, that's far more than I should have offered just on principle, but I wanted it for another shop project car - oh well.
Our next addition will likely be a 3 valve Mustang - that is, if I can ever get some of these projects out of the shop!!
Right now we have 3 trucks here for blower installs, 3 more coming in the next few days, a monster that has been here far too long (John's 1000 hp-capable motor'd truck), and then far more work that needs to be done to 3 other project vehicles - so there's never a dull moment around here.
And no, I don't make it to the drag strip hardly ever - simply don't have the time. But my staff is getting on me to get back out to the track, so we'll see what this year brings............
We've been thru many vehicles of course - Wittom was with us during one of our past National F-150 Online Rallys (and Raoul used to come to every one), he spent the better part of a day with my wife & I at a Ford dealership when she was getting her 2001 F-150 4x4, and I decided to go ahead and pick up a new Lightning that same day - but didn't tell her about it until a couple of days later - I took delivery of it on the side of the Interstate at a gas station - literally! The guy from the dealership I deal with met me halfway, and we swapped vehicles there.
That old 1995 Lincoln Mark 8 Raoul is talking about I still miss, as it was a great high-speed highway cruiser - and it basically was stock, it only had a tune, a driveshaft, and a quiet exhaust on it - it later got 4.11 gears and went into the 13's on a bone-stock motor - it really wasn't anyhting special, it was jsut a comfortable highway cruiser, nothing more. Now my 1994 Mark 8 ran 164 mph, and got it into the 12's before I got bored with it.
I used to be a Corvette nut, & have owned 13 of them - but that was a logn time ago, we have been bleeding Ford blue for a long time now.
To answer the questions, our current stable consists of a 2004 5.4 3V Roushcharged F-150, a low 11 second Lightning (which could go 10's with just a tad more work), a 2004 Cobra, which is as Marc said, a work in progress, though it will still take your breath away if you aren't used to it. Between it's power and especially the rear suspension work to make it hook, it pulls extremely hard, accelerating just as hard at 100 mph as it does at 60 mph. It saw 155 the other day on a quick burst on the Interstate (I tune some law enforcement cars around here, so there are fringe benefits to that), but the rear end starts floating up at about 170 or so - it needs a rear wing to keep the rear on the ground on a higher speed run, but I hate running them on the street. It basically lacks the 26 spline shaft, a better clutch, and a set of 1000 hp rear axles to hit the high 9's, we figure. Lord only knows when we'll get back to working on it - no time soon, I fear!!
I was within $2K of getting a 2007 Shelby GT500, but I just refuse to pay what dealers want for them especially considering that I get A-plan pricing on all our FoMoCo vehicles. I had one dealer that would take 7K over sticker, I would only go $5K over, and for me, that's far more than I should have offered just on principle, but I wanted it for another shop project car - oh well.
Our next addition will likely be a 3 valve Mustang - that is, if I can ever get some of these projects out of the shop!!
Right now we have 3 trucks here for blower installs, 3 more coming in the next few days, a monster that has been here far too long (John's 1000 hp-capable motor'd truck), and then far more work that needs to be done to 3 other project vehicles - so there's never a dull moment around here.
And no, I don't make it to the drag strip hardly ever - simply don't have the time. But my staff is getting on me to get back out to the track, so we'll see what this year brings............