Justin: Hey everyone, Justin here with americanmuscle.com.
Welcome to Hot Lap.
We've got a great episode for you this time featuring some killer new products, the hottest
Mustang news, but first, check out my buddy Zach's California special for some quick and
easy Coyote games.
What's up, everybody?
Justin with americanmuscle.com here with my buddy Zach from americanmuscle.com as well.
You're actually doing a lot of the writing here, right, for some of the blogs, catalogs,
things like that.
Zach: Yeah.
Justin: You happen to have your ride in with us today, your beautiful California special.
It looks awesome.
What kind of mods you got going on so far, Zach?
Zach: I've put on a Roush axle back exhaust, the Ford Racing H pipe, the side exhaust,
and a Ford Racing short throw shifter.
Justin: Today we're going to do, obviously, some tuning of course from the Bama V2, some
of the custom tunes from them.
We're also going to work with an intake.
Why'd you go with the C&L?
Zach: Well, C&L's a great brand.
It went on a few minutes and it looks great.
I'm curious to see what it puts down now.
Justin: Let's get to the power numbers.
We're going to get somebody in here from the Bama team to write a new V2 tune for this
thing and see what power numbers we can expect from this combo.
All right, guys, this is why these first couple of mods are so popular.
Let's break down these numbers real quick, Zach, 369, 372 bone stock, or baseline run
I should say, with your given mods.
Now with the V2 tune, the C&L cold air intake, the car's making 401, 398.
That's a peak gain of 32 horsepower over those baseline numbers and gains of as much 26 horsepower,
28 pound-feet of torque under the curve.
Zach: Yeah.
I'm super happy with what the car put down.
I didn't expect it to break 400 but it did.
Now I'm just curious to see how it drives.
Justin: All right, sir, give the people what they want.
Let's have a gear or two.
Zach: All right.
That's wild.
Oh my God!
Justin: She is pulling strong.
That felt like every bit of 401 horsepower I'll tell you that much.
Zach: Oh yeah, absolutely.
It's the best of both worlds.
I feel all the performance and everything you'd expect to have from a Mustang, yet at
the same time as soon as I go to normal drive it's better than stock, in my opinion.
I can't think of any other way to make that power that quick and that easy.
Stephanie: What's up, guys?
Stephanie with americanmuscle.com.
Here with an exciting new product.
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These lights even work with the sequential harness that American Muscle offers that I
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Justin: Let's start off this episode's Mustang news with some fun news.
Obviously, it's no surprise that the 2015 Mustang is off to a ridiculous start not only
here state side but also worldwide, which led to an interesting question.
What's everybody's favorite Mustang color?
Well, thanks to some new customer data from Ford, we have that answer.
As you might expect, some colors are always going to be universal on a Mustang such as
black and red, and these numbers tend to back that up.
Black came in first in the US with the 2015 Mustang followed closely by magnetic metallic
and ruby red in third.
Race red is by far the most popular color overseas coming in first both in Europe and
China, while in Europe black came in second followed by deep impact blue.
In China, white came in second behind race red followed by black in third.
Shifting gears a little bit, with the 2016 GT 350 and 350 R getting closer and closer
to hitting the streets, we're finally starting to get a look inside some of the early production
numbers, thanks to an inside source.
According to this source, Ford is planning on building roughly 5000 2016 GT 350s and
only about 500 of the R variants, making them very rare of course.
To put this in perspective a little bit, Ford only built about 5000 GT 500s each year over
the last few years, so of course it should be pretty rare overall.
Again, more info on this as we get closer to 2016.
Winding down this episode's Mustang news, I'm happy to announce a new product lineup
available here at americanmuscle.com, Vogtland springs.
I'm sure you guys have heard of these springs before.
That's because they've been around forever producing quality springs for a number of
different rides but more recently throwing their hat into the Mustang market, even producing
springs for the new S550 chassis which we are going to carry.
I actually installed a set of these springs on AM customer Mike Smith's 2015 recently,
and needless to say he was very impressed.
Mike: What a performance handle, everything it has done to wrap it all together with the
sway bars and the cornering, the springs.
Your number one driver is the performance piece of it, but also you've got to look at...
you want it to look good.
Justin: Oh, and you got the looks.
Mike: This thing right here sits mean right now.
Justin: Be sure to check out this video later on on our YouTube channel.
Well, guys, the contest train keeps rolling along here at AM.
This month, we're giving away a $500 AM gift card to be used here on the site to help kick
off the spring and summer time mods.
You should know the deal by now with these contests.
They run all month long, so be sure to jump on that right away.
Guys, that's going to do it for this episode of Hot Lap.
We hope you enjoyed it.
With the warm weather here right around the corner, we should be hitting the track very
soon with all of your favorite project cars, so be sure to keep it locked right here.
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