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Fox Mustang 500 Project Car - Planting The Power
Paul's High Performance rear-ends our Fox 500 project car with a complete set of Maximum Motorsports' suspsension gear. - 5.0 Mustang & Super Fords Magazine more
Mustang T-Top LX Project Car - Full-Throttle Meltdown
The triumphant return of our T-Top LX is cut short when some technical missteps cause the 347 supercharged engine to die. - 5.0 Mustang & Super Fords Magazine more
1988 Fox Mustang 500 Project - Caged Animal
The Fox 500 project continues as we brace its t-top chassis with a bolt-in rollbar kit from Maximum Motorsports. - 5.0 Mustang & Super Fords Magazine more
1989 Ford Mustang - Project Real Street Part 11: Engine And Suspension Improvements
After a long hiatus, we reignite our flamed 1989 Ford Mustang Real Street project car with several improvements to its engine and rear suspension more
1989 Ford Mustang - Project Real Street Part 10: Drivetrain Modifications And Fuel Tank
We finally get our Project Real Street 1989 Ford Mustang running in time for Bowling Green, but bad luck hits when we arrive more
1989 Ford Mustang - Project Real Street Part 9: Drivetrain Installation
Project Real Street's drivetrain makes its new home between the strut towers of our flamed '89 Mustang notch more
1989 Ford Mustang Notchback - Project Real Street Part 7: Interior - Back In Black
Our Project Real Street 1989 Ford Mustang's interior goes basic black, with some performance enhancements for street and strip driving more
Project Fox Mustang T-top Coupe: Paint & Bodywork
Johns Customz & Performance finishes the bodywork on our Fox Mustang T-Top Coupe project car and sprays on a fresh, wet look with Auto Air Colors' Deep Black paint more
2006 Ford Mustang GT - Projected Winner
The building of the Project Fire & Ice 2006 Ford Mustang GT comes to a close more
1989 Ford Mustang - Project Real Street Part 5: Fuel System
Our 1989 Ford Mustang Project Real Street car bulks up for the street and track with a stout fuel system from Aeromotive more
1989 Ford Mustang - Project Real Street Part 4: House Of Kolor Paint Job
Our 1989 Ford Mustang Real Street Project receives a shiny new paint job complete with flames from House of Kolor more
1989 Ford Mustang - Project Real Street Part 3: 8.8 Inch Rearend
Our '89 Mustang project car gets some spunk under the trunk in the form of a new rearend courtesy of Mark Williams Enterprises more
1989 Ford Mustang Notchback - Project Real Street Part 2: Suspension And Chassis - Suspended Animation
Our Project Real Street '89 Ford Mustang notch receives upgraded front and rear suspension as well as a few chassis upgrades to prepare for battle more
Ford Mustang Engine Block - Project Real Street Part 1: Short Block - Getting Real
Our Real Street Fox body Mustang project begins with a Super Pro Bullet block from D.S.S. more
Mustang Project Car - Big-Bore Score
Keith Craft Performance whips up a high-performance small-block engine for our project car. - 5.0 Mustang & Super Fords Magazine more
Project Automatic Weapon Part III: S197 Mustang Suspension Install
We take the suspension on project Automatic Weapon to a whole new level with help from the aftermarket more
Door Lock Actuators - Actuate The Positive
Get a sense of security from changing your door-lock actuators. more
Project 3g GT: Suspension Upgrades
For those of you following along with our new project, the 3g GT, we will tackle some of the suspension and braking upgrades this month. With just one visit to the fine folks at Steeda Autosports we fulfilled our suspension and braking needs, expediting our up more
Minimum-Wage Mustang Part IV: Pro-5.0 Shifter
Performance can be as subjective as it is objective. Improving the way a car feels does not necessarily mean that it’s any faster, but an improvement in visceral sensation is still considered a performance increase. A good example is the installation of a more
Project Mondo Stocker Part V: The Last Chapter
Author's Note: What you are about to read is real. It is an account of what happens when you mix the induction system of a 1,000hp engine with the stock bottom end that Ford supplied in a 5.0 Mustang circa 1988. We want to caution our readers that this i more
Project Mondo Stocker Part IV: Drag Parts
It seems like only yesterday we got the not-so-bright idea to transform our street-driven 11-second sedan into a stock-bottom-end time bomb ready to tackle the quarter-mile with one of the biggest superchargers you can buy, the Vortech Mondo. But it has been m more
Project Mondo Stocker Part III: Suspension Upgrade
In case you're just checking in (or in case you have forgotten), our stock-bottom-end, Vortech Mondo-supercharged project car is nearing completion. While preparing the car for Street Outlaw action, we started wondering just how fast you could push the stock 5 more
Project Silver State: Control Arms
If you want to go quick down the 1,320 (or fast around corners), one of the best bolt-on improvements you can make to your Mustang is rear control arms. The stock control arms aren’t bad for a stock setup, but once those engine and suspension mods get ins more
Buy A Used 5.0
When it comes to cars in the classified ads, the truth lies somewhere between: ’92 Mustang GT. 5.0, five-speed, clean, one-owner, all stock, never raced, never wrecked, flawless in and out. Driven only to work by timid secretary. Make offer. ...an more
Project Mondo Stocker Part II: Digital Fuel Injection
There's a certain mystique surrounding Accel's Digital Fuel Injection (DFI) system. When first introduced in the '80s, only the really high-tech racers with money to burn dared try a stand-alone fuel injection system. Without solid tuning experience, it was ea more