mustang week 2021 has come and gone the steeda team had a blast it was great to see all of our
customers make some new friends see some old friends that's what mustang week's all about
we had the opportunity to catch up with multiple people an interview about their
cars their experience with steeda the parts and everything in between
so follow along so you can check out these interviews for yourself let's dive in
all righty what you've all been waiting for joanna and her beautiful 2018 whipple supercharged
streetcar right streetcar yes thank you so much for coming out thanks for having me tell us a
little bit about the car um it's a 2018. i got it in august of 18. it got a 3-0 whipple within
three months of owning it nice um it did i want to say it did 970 right off the trailer first pass
um then we kind of turned it up went on ignite and it i sat at 9-0 for about a year we had to
go through breaking parts um and then this year i just did a 8.75 minute awesome awesome so uh
what kind of suspension you're running i gotta ask all ceda awesome my favorite it's been fantastic
so uh you know tell us a little bit about your experience i know that you've snapped a few drive
shafts on this thing you know there was a lot of uh trial and error and learning in the process
you know you mind sharing a little bit about that um so in my experience my dad has a shop
but the s550 and making the s550s fast is not something he had done yet you know he threw a
lot of whipples on him but never like fast fast not like his s197 so it was a learning curve for
brian and i and my dad to try to figure out what the heck was going on being a third gen
being a 10r80 just so many new things that we had to learn all at once um so we went through we
immediately put a cci driveline um which is local to us so that's why we wanted to work with them
drive shafting the car and it was fantastic last the first year um then it had some issues and
ended up splitting um the next year was when it just spiraled into having a bunch of issues so we
we broke two stock ones which we expected right we would put and you're thinking why you put the
stock one even back in um we had to stop one just to be able to cruise in it and we were like oh
it'll make it one time on the track and that's what it did it made it one time at the track um
and then the woodward dream cruise happened so we wanted to be able to just drive the car to cruise
again left it in and that's when it lasted the track and then then we had a manufacturer defected
one um they fixed it for us then had another issue and i was like okay i'm done with that um so it
was just on an on and off of breaking things and then the diff broke and the diff broke one of them
which the diff braking is kind of common when you get to that amount of power with these cars
and how much we just beat the ever living crap out of it like i think i did 500 passes last year oh
my gosh so it's really you know everyone's like oh you guys break the weirdest stuff i was like
but who who beats on it as much as i do you know drive it a lot and take care of it and
it was definitely a learning curve but this year we went with carbon qa1 okay um and i just got it
back together with some transit after trans issues three weeks ago yeah so we've been trying to pack
a whole summer in the last three weeks so and you managed to make it out here yes yes we did
so uh what kind of power levels are we talking about here um we don't dynamite anymore because
it shakes a little bit too much on the dyno my dad says it's not really safe so that's fair so i mean
we had to put like we put like 150 pounds in the trunk and it still was shaking to bed so we just
we only dynoed it to make sure that the injectors were enough right with fueling and everything
it was okay but if i had to guess i would say it's probably right at 1100. if i had to guess
and what pulley are you down to now oh 3-0 and there's still there's still some to go down okay
all right so it's supported 3-0 now three three oh whipple so it's a 3-0 whipple and a 3-0 pulley
so a lot of three it's funny because it's a fifth gen whipple on a third-gen coyote and then the 5-0
and the three leader and it's just a lot yeah a lot a lot of same numbering to remember so
so with those kind of power numbers i mean that's a lot of power to put through the driveline as we
talked about yeah and then getting it down to the ground i mean what kind of short time
is he pulling at the track like eighth mile yeah or i'm just 60 foot yeah 60 foot it's
the best i've done is a one two nine and i think that i think that it has potential
to go down oh for sure i mean you know playing with the shocks and suspension and tweaking and
modifying i think it'll definitely do my goal for this year will be a one two four now am i allowed
to talk about weight yeah you can talk about okay so what are we weighing at right now i don't know
exactly so we waited here in michigan and it was like 30 900. or i'm sorry yeah 39 and then we
went to oklahoma and they weighed cause a lot of tracks don't have the weights on or the scales on
um and we went down to oklahoma and it was like 39.50 which i know which driver with drivers so
i know they're off a little bit um so the goal would be to get it down to like 37 with me in it
but you just you know when you get the car it's a premium car which i know i've messed up by buying
a premium car but it's still a street car yeah i'd enjoy it i didn't really think we'd get to this
point but you know the blower had the hundred the ice tank full adds quite a bit the cage adds quite
a bit so you're just basically pulling back out what we added but so no no uh no rear seat anymore
we take the passenger seat out but we leave it for like dream cruise and frozen and stuff like that
um like any little system underneath that we don't use anymore took out
um we tried to be nice to get down to this car's weight but i think we'll have to be gutting a
lot more i just i'm not ready to get to that point you know i mean the fact that's n a versus
you know supercharged there's a lot of weapons yeah so i don't know what you're talking about oh
i don't either hey safety is important and i mean at the end of the day when you're putting down
those kind of power numbers in a street car that weighs 3 900 pounds and you're still running you
know mid to high eights it's just it's insane yeah yeah but i mean people ask me all the time like
i was told i was gonna hate the car with the cage and it's just different though because i grew up
that way my dad had the cage in the yellow car the yellow fox and he would drop me off at school
pick me up from soccer games and so to me i'm like this isn't any different it doesn't make
it right but i knew it you know i'm not getting over it and being klutzy is not i'm used to you
know i've been doing it since i was a kid but the parachute on it's been different but i i mean i
drive it around all the time this is the second summer with the parachute on it i got pulled over
once in this car and i got a wrong address ticket of all things and then police officer was like
didn't say anything about the car nothing and i'm like okay okay okay i'll take it so i don't know i
mean i've been behind cops i mean as long as the plate's registered and you're not speeding i'm
sure they're not what do they have to pull you over for i have been i've had cops come up and
talk to us when we do photo shoots and this one officer was super cool he was like what are you
what are you uh trapping with that parachute so he must have knew a little bit about it oh that's
awesome yeah that was fun but yeah no i mean i haven't had any problems on the street with it and
ran out of gas here and there just because it's you know it says you have a half a tank
but it's just six miles to the gallon oh yeah so you don't really know what you have sometimes so
full throttle right yeah it happens so you said uh you know right in the passenger seat like that in
the fox body it sounds like your family's been into this for a long time you could say that um
my parents met in their mustangs and uh then they opened their performance shop and then they had me
so i've been around this forever um i always joke that my mom's fox is like the older sibling
i don't have because it's just always been there you know i don't know any other way so
during the years like my parents have always had that car my mom bought it new in 88.
um so they've always had that and then throughout the years like my dad will get something new
every generation to work on for the shop so we've had he has had an sn mach 1. a couple three valves
um then he had his 11 coyote until like two months ago right to get the new gt500 right
he's got the gt500 and then he started working on gm and dodge so he's had like a g8 hellcat and
stuff like that so we've been around cars forever i try to tell people i'm a enthusiast not a purist
but i went back to having a mustang so i seemed like a purist because i had the ctsb for a little
while that's right inside a mustang i had a three valve ctsb and then i went back to this my heart
lies with mustang but like i would i'd love to have a z06 like i really want to e36 m3 like i
just love cars i just there's something about them i just i want to have this to be my goals
i want a fun stick car i want a drift car i that's why we don't have kids so i can afford all this
so uh what's next for this thing um i try not to set like number goals because i don't want
to have like an expectation and be bummed out every time i go to the track but as the season
comes starts being cooler if we could get into the 850 840s that would be where i would love to be
because when i did the 870 it was uh 3300 da which i'm sure someone from like colorado will give me
a hard time living i wish i had but i mean we're used to zero in the fall so we'll probably go to
maryland or even if we get a couple nice weekends in october by us it's it's good weather good air
really good air and you also have mod nationals too that's true yeah i think we're gonna try to
make it to that and um we're going to virginia next month so we'll get good air around us
somewhere so yeah if we could do an 840 pull in a little bit of weight and a little better air
i'd be happy awesome well thank you so much for your support thanks for having me we're happy
to have you here and we're excited to continue working with you thank you thank you so much
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