Justin: Hey everyone, Justin with AmericanMuscle.com.
Happy New Year and welcome to another episode of Hot Lap.
Now, we're going to pick right up where we left off in 2014 and continue to bring you
guys the hottest Mustang content available on the web, some new products, and some other
fun stuff mixed in, of course, all for your viewing pleasure.
Now, a cool new thing we're going to be doing this year is an episode or a series called
Builds.
Basically we're going to bring in both customer and employee rides, some builds already in
progress.
We're going to bring them into the shop here, turn a few wrenches and show you guys the
results.
The first episode, we just shot with employee Dave D. and his '89 Notchback, so let's check
it out.
Hey, what's up everybody?
Justin with AmericanMuscle.com and welcome to an episode of Builds, the place where we
feature some employee and customer rides and get them in the shop here, work on them a
little bit and have a lot of fun.
Now in the studio here with me today, AM employee Dave, self-proclaimed Mustang addict you would
say.
He's told me he's owned over 15 mustangs, the latest of which is actually sitting behind
us, '89 Fox Body Notchback.
A beautiful car now but it always wasn't this way, right?
Tell us a little bit about the history.
Dave: I picked up this car about a year ago.
I was looking for something fun to drive around with my family and take my kids out.
It was a total wreck.
I mean, the thing was sitting in some guy's driveway for over a year.
It was all rotted out.
The interior was gutted and it didn't run.
The transmission was in the backseat.
So, I've done a ton of stuff to it.
I tried to bring it back to life.
Justin: And he definitely brought it back from the dead.
The car's looking good.
And you've actually done some bolt-on stuff as well, so why don't we talk about some of
the mods.
Maybe, let's pop the hood here and take a look underneath.
Dave: Basically, it's a stock bottom end 5.0.
We've got the Explorer GT40P heads and intake.
Got a cold air intake, a lightening mass air meter, 24 pound injectors, BBK Long Tubes
and a full exhaust on it.
Justin: Very cool.
Dave: You know, pretty common mods.
Justin: Well, Dave, talk about your future mods with this particular car.
Dave: I'd like to try and make a little more power with it.
Maybe do a set of aluminum heads, something that flows a little better.
Some forced induction, a blower or a turbo.
Then, eventually, some more work on the suspension, like a 5-lug conversion, different wheels.
Justin: All right, sounds like a good plan to me.
Well, guys, you heard Dave mention he wants to do some new heads on the car.
Well, wouldn't you know it?
That just happens to be the subject of today's episode of Builds.
We have these brand new SR Performance prototype heads, larger valves, stainless steel valves,
and a bronze guides along with a COMP Cams Roller set-up.
These things aren't on the site yet but will be available very shortly.
And Dave's going to be our guinea pig here with these heads.
But what do you say we get to work on this bad-boy, rip out those stock GT40 heads and
get to work?
All right, Dave, so the car just finished up on the Dyno.
It certainly sounded healthy, man.
Now the baseline run with all your bolt-ons, the GT40 set-up, the car laid down 270 horsepower,
303 pound feet of torque.
With the SR performance heads now in place, the car's making 286, 313; a gain of 16 horsepower,
10 pound-feet of torque.
You happy with those numbers?
Dave: Yeah, definitely.
I wasn't expecting it to be a tremendous amount higher, starting from a P head.
If I had stock head, it would've been significantly more but I'm really happy with those gains.
I think it's solid and it definitely sets me up for the future when I want to go with
a blower or a turbo.
Justin: Yeah.
Like Dave said, whenever he's ready to go forced induction, these heads are ready to
flow some serious air, they're ready to rock and roll.
And the nice thing is, they're already pre-assembled with dual valve springs so you can run that
nice fat cam.
And there's a little extra meat on the heads too.
So if you ever wanted to deck them, get a little bit more compression, you can go that
route as well.
But all in all, guys, you know, for the SR performance prototype heads, I think it was
a success.
And Dave, he might be back.
You know, he talked about the blower, talked about the turbo.
So that's the whole point of Builds, right?
So we'll have a little bit more fun with Dave's Fox Body.
In the meantime, if you want to stay tuned to all these Build episodes, be sure to subscribe
to our YouTube channel, if you haven't done so already.
And for all things Mustang, keep it right here at AmericanMuscle.com.
Stephanie: Hey, guys, Stephanie here.
In this episode, I'm bringing you Magnaflow's lineup of 2015 exhaust options for your new
S550 mustang.
Now, as a lot of you guys already know, we do feature Magnaflow a lot here at American
Muscle, but for good reason.
Quality, fitment and sound are all on point.
The exhausts I'm talking about here today are for the 2015 GT and include the aggressive
Competition Series Cat-Back and Axle-Back as well as the slightly milder Street Series
Cat-Back.
All of these systems utilize quality stainless steel construction, 3-inch mandrel bent tubing,
and will no doubt increase volume and free up some power on your modified or otherwise
stock Coyote.
Stay tuned for sound clips coming soon.
But in the meantime, if you guys would like to check out these exhaust options as well
as other new products for your 2015, click the link below or head back to the new products
tab on the homepage of AmericanMuscle.com.
Justin: All right guys.
Time to get started on this episode's Mustang News.
Now, with the initial buzz of the 2015 Mustang slowly starting to wear off, the question
still remains; how is America really reacting to the new Pony car?
Well, if sales figures are any indication, and guess what, they are, then it seems like
America is really digging the new 'Stang.
In fact, the Mustang celebrated its best sales figure since 2006, selling nearly 9,000 Mustangs
in November of 2014, doubling the sales of the Camaro for that same month.
Speaking of a great start to 2015, the Detroit Auto Show is set to take place later on this
month and Ford is looking to release some pretty cool new cars.
Some of these cars include the return of Ford's Halo car, the GT for the first time in many
years, the return of the next generation Raptor.
Also, possibly, this 300 horsepower maybe all-wheel drive Focus RS which would be pretty
cool.
And last but certainly not least, since this is Mustang News after all, Ford is looking
to release the Shelby GT350R which is going to be a more pumped up version of the Shelby
GT350, much like the Laguna Seca was to the Boss 302.
Now, you can look for some new aero, maybe new wheels and tires and brakes.
Overall, it should be pretty cool.
All right, before we get out of here in Mustang News, I just want to give a quick shout-out
to my buddy Mike Zwick and his 2012 All-Motor GT.
It recently went a best of 10.59 at 128, resetting the naturally aspirated record here in his
Coyote.
So, congrats buddy.
I know you've been chasing that time for a little while.
I'm just sorry we couldn't make it down there in person to see it ourselves.
Guys, that's going to do it for the first episode of Hot Lap for 2015.
We hope you enjoyed it.
Believe me when I tell you that you're definitely going to want to stay tuned to our channel
this entire year.
Between our 2015s doing work at the track, other big builds, huge events and some other
big announcements, believe me, 2015 is going to be an amazing year here at A.M.
In the meantime, thanks for watching.
Keep rocking and rolling.
And for all things Mustang, keep it right here at AmericanMuscle.com.