Hey I'm Justin with AmericanMuscle.com, and welcome to stage 1 of our 2014 GT Project
car build, known as Project Coyote.
So the idea with this project car series was to mix things up a little bit and introduce
a second car to the mix.
So while I'm getting my hands dirty with the 14 here, my buddy Dave is going to be doing
his project car thing with the 06 GT so essentially doubling our fun here at AmericanMuscle.com
and the number of videos coming to you guys.
Of course we're going to throw in a friendly competition of a quarter mile drag race at
the end because why not, now assembling two cars can be a bit of work, so that's why Dave
and I hand picked two teams of Mustang experts from the offices at AmericanMuscle.com, to
help us with some installs along the way and a few part selections as well.
Before we got to work on Project Coyote we did grab our baseline dyno run and track run,
at the dyno we put down 361 horsepower and 344 ft/lbs of torque, while at the track we
managed a best of 12.9.
So it's safe to say stock for stock the boys and I have a substantial advantage over Dave
in the 06 power wise, however with a name like grabber boost we have a good idea of
what's coming up for us down the road, which got us thinking a little bit.
We could add a power adder to our 5L here but, we figured that wouldn't be fair to them
in their 3 valve motor, so we figured we'd exploit the capabilities of our Coyote motor
here, hence the name Project Coyote, and battle their boost with some all motor 4 valve power.
Basic plans laid out, my team are going to get to work installing the basic performance,
and appearance basics, just to get the ball rolling a little bit before we really start
getting into the fun stuff.
Mike and Laz are under the hood putting the finishing touches on a BBK throttle body,
and an Airaid cold air intake combo, alright guys looks great under the hood, tell me a
little more about the combo and what we've got going on.
Mike: Well, we just got done installing our cold air intake, along with our BBK 9mm throttle
body, the throttle body is going to help us out a little bit now, being that it's bigger
than stock, but down the road when we try to pull out every ounce of power, it's really
going to help.
Justin: Mr Lazarus, that Airaid?
Laz: This cold air intake is going to suck a ton of air down that intake, paired with
BBK's 9mm throttle body, we should we seeing some pretty sizeable gains on this.
You do need to know it does need to be tuned, I think Ryan is working on that as we speak.
Justin: Awesome man, I'm going to check on him but I couldn't help notice you guys snuck
in that SR Performance oil separator which I think is awesome man, that's going to keep
all these oily vapors and all that other junk from entering our intake manifold down the
road.
Again good work boys, in the meantime I'll leave you with that, and I'm going to go check
on Ryan.
Well like Laz said in order to run that race intake from Airaid we are going to need to
upload a custom Bama tune, which it looks like Ryan is doing right now, you guys all
know the deal with the tune by now, it's pretty much essential whenever you start adding the
big mods under the hood, and it's only going to make the most out of those big mods down
the road.
If you're all done in here man you want to get the car in the air and start working on
the exhaust?
So to wrap up the performance bolt ons here in stage 1 we're going to install Flowmaster's
outlaw series axle back, my buddy Ryan here actually does all the installs for the exhaust
vids, and he actually picked this exhaust out specifically for Project Coyote.
Ryan why did you go with the Flowmaster?
Ryan: This is actually one of my favourite exhaust systems, the straight through design
allows for greater air flow, making the car sound angry.
Justin: With the stage 1 performance stuff out of the way it's time to give the 14 a
much needed facelift before we head down to the track.
MMD has also supplied a ton of cool parts for stage 1 here, in fact Mike and I are just
finishing up with this ducktail spoiler, which is actually a new edition to the MMD lineup.
Mike, you're a great fan of this spoiler, aren't you?
Mike: Absolutely, it's a great spoiler, MMD took a really subtle approach to the ducktail
design, which really pays tribute to the late 60s iconic Shelby cars.
Justin: Moving on it looks like Laz is putting the finishing touches on a set of louvers
here, what you got, buddy?
Laz: Well Justin, these are the classic window louvers by MMD, they're a really cool retro
throwback style part that's going to work great with our pre painted side scoops and
some vinyl that we have Steve putting on here.
Justin: Ryan what you got over here man?
Ryan: I'm installing a set of MMD's retro style mirrors, we felt that the stock mirrors
didn't match the body lines of the car very well, plus we also wanted it to match the
new black roof decal and also the other black vinyl that we're putting on the car.
You didn't think we'd make it through an entire appearance build without adding a new set
of wheels and tires did you?
The boys and I are unanimous on this one, we went with the 2013 GT500 style wheels in
charcoal, along with some nice sticky rubber from Sumitomo.
So my team and I pretty much rocked stage 1, I mean our car is looking great, all of
our bolt ons are installed, I think it's time to get it strapped to the dyno one more time,
and see if we've improved over our baseline numbers.
Again our baseline run with project coyote gave us 361 horsepower and 344 ft/lbs of torque,
with all our stage 1 modification we put down 384 horsepower and 373 ft/lbs of torque, giving
us a peak horsepower gain of 23 and curve gains of 32 horsepower and 31 ft/lbs of torque.
So with everything wrapped up here in the shop it's time to take Project Coyote down
to the track and meet up with the grabber boost team and see where both cars stand after
their stage 1 mods.
Justin: Alright so we're down here at Cecil county raceway at the end of stage 1 to see
how Project Coyote and Project Grabber Boost, are going to make out and Dave I have to say
the car looks awesome.
Dave: Thank you and as does yours, I really like everything you've done, what's your plan
for your car?
Justin: Well at the end of this stage we're hoping mid to low 12s after stage 1 but we'll
see, how about you guys?
Dave: Oh we're hoping to knock a few tenths off as well, we're hoping to get down out
of the 14s as well, same thing, good clean passes.
Justin: Right, so obviously no surprises here we were expecting Project Coyote to do a little
better than you guys for now, but with your name Grabber Boost we know what's coming.
If anything, I like the color.
Nice choice.
Dave: Ok well let's get to it, I want to see how these things run.
Justin: Let's get to the line.
Dave: Hey we finished our runs here tonight, got some real good track time in, the 06,
Project Grabber Boost, we started out at a 14.0 and tonight knocked off a full half second,
got us a 13.5.
Hey and you guys did pretty well tonight too.
Justin: We did Dave, not quite as good as you guys, we started off with a 12.9 bone
stock, dropped that down 4 tenths tonight to a 12.5, so car is feeling good, I think
we're going to get ready for the big showdown now.
Dave: Stay tuned as we continue with Project Grabber Boost, as we move on to stage 2.
Justin: and stay tuned for stage 2 of Project Coyote coming at you very soon.