Fast and Furious Mustang for sale

Reply #15 – September 14, 2008, 09:55:32 PM

Not sure how much you can trust that article, since the guy doesn't even know an RB26 is an in-line 6.

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Both Mustangs were said to be lined up at the dragstrip by Hot Rod Magazine and the Nissan powered Mustang ran the quarter mile in 13.32 seconds at 109 MPH. The Ford powered ‘67 Mustang was 1.2 seconds slower.

Also, this sounds like BS.

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Reply #16 – September 14, 2008, 10:04:28 PM

the article i read said that it was slow, and under powered

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Reply #17 – September 14, 2008, 11:46:23 PM

it is for a TT il6 cyl imo.

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Reply #18 – September 14, 2008, 11:53:58 PM

I did a google, and found about 15 links and they all had the same "specs" in them. Its prolly is wrong.

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Reply #19 – September 15, 2008, 12:04:26 AM

its single turbo....
Hollywood is determined to destroy every '67 and '68 Mustang fastback itcan find. Back in 2000, about a dozen were destroyed filming Gone InSixty Seconds, and last year, another half dozen or so were wiped out asthe bad guy's car in The Dukes of Hazzard. So it was already pretty mucha cliche when Tokyo Drift's producers settled on the '67 Mustangfastback as one of the stars of their movie. What's surprising about theMustangs that survived the movie is that they ran so well.

Five of the six Mustangs built by Dennis McCarthy's Picture Cardepartment were found in Southern California using the usual sources:the Recycler and eBay. Prices ranged from $14,000 for a good driverdoomed for destruction to $22,000 for a clean car that could be used forhero work. We tested three of the survivors: one a nearly perfect carwith Nissan's legendary (at least in Importworld) RB26DETT turbocharged2.6L, DOHC, 24-valve inline-six and its accompanying five-speed manualtransmission aboard; one that didn't have a single dent-free body panelon it but had a strong 430-inch Windsor V-8 under its hooddeep-breathing through a Holley carburetor and using a Top Loaderfour-speed to send power back to the rear wheels; and one just like thedented car but with clean bodywork. All three cars incorporated GlobalWest suspension pieces and rack-and-pinion steering, and both wore245/35R19 front and 275/35R19 rear Toyo Proxes T1R tires on Volk RacingGrey GT-7 wheels. Ford sold plenty of Mustangs with straight-sixengines, but there's still something just so wrong about a fastback thatdoesn't sound like there's a V-8 throbbing under its hood. And there'ssomething weird about a '67 Mustang with a turbocharger intercoolerpoking out from under its front bumper and a single exhaust tip throughwhich a good-sized Shetland pony could walk. But Nissan's RB26DETTreally is an excellent six, and this car works surprisingly well.

McCarthy's team ditched the stock twin turbos for a single-turbo systemthey fabricated themselves but left most of the engine otherwise stock.In a puppiesanese-market Skyline GT-R, the RB26DETT is underrated at 280 hpat the crank. But on a Dynojet chassis dynamometer, this lightlymodified but overboosted example showed 340 hp at the rear wheels. Onthe test track, it plowed up to 60 mph in 5.38 seconds and cleared thequarter-mile in 13.36 seconds at 109.83 mph. And it did that withvirtually no drama while sounding like a '52 GMC pickup that just hadits rotted ler fall off.

Built to look identical to the Nissan- powered Mustang, the beat,V-8-powered machine carried the same intercooler and exhaust tip as thatcar, but they're both purely ornamental. Instead, exhaling throughMagnaflow lers just forward of the rear axle, this thing sounds likethe hot rod it is: eager, powerful, and singing a sweet song. But whileit felt more powerful than the Nissan-powered car (McCarthy estimatesits output at about 375 hp), its power was much more difficult to get tothe ground. After all, this car was built to drift, not to launch, so itshouldn't be a surprise that a car with a rearend built to swing doesn'twant to hook up in a straight line. Still, its 6.65-second 0-to-60-mphtime isn't shameful, and the quarter-mile took 14.57 seconds at 96.65mph. The no-dent Mustang never made a complete pass down thequarter-mile due to a hemorrhaging fuel pump. However, on a partialpass, it did hit 60 mph in 5.96 seconds indicating some significantpotential.

Now that the world knows a Nissan six will fit into a Mustang, will wesee a whole rash of American musclecars powered by foreign engines? ForGod's sake, let's hope not.

1971 Chevy Monte Carlo Side View

Track Test: Monte Carlo Madness

In uncertain times, the savvy investor seeks expert advice. So listencarefully: If you want to make some money, go out and buy all thefirst-generation Chevrolet Monte Carlos you can lay your hands onbecause if there is one thing The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift isbound to do, it's raise the profile of this often-overlooked and easilymodified A-body derivative. Just look at what happened with Mustangfastbacks after Gone In Sixty Seconds six years ago.

The valve covers on both big-block Monte Carlos tested by HOT RODpromise that there's a Bill Mitchell Hardcore 632ci V-8 pounding awayunderneath them. And for purposes of the story in Tokyo Drift, that'swhat's there. But the cars are actually powered by smaller Mitchellcrate engines: a World Class 509 in one car and a Hardcore 572 in theother. Both cars back their powerplants with Lakewood bellhousings,Hayes clutches, and Richmond T-10 four-speed manual transmissionsfeeding through Wenco driveshafts to Moser 12-bolt rearends with spoolsand 4.88:1 gears.

Both cars also have similar chassis modifications with Global Westcontrol arms and coils in front, weight jackers at all four corners, KYBshocks, Speedway Engineering anti-sway bars, and quickened steeringboxes modified with the guts of IROC Camaro boxes. There are Wilwooddisc brakes at every corner, and the cars ride on Goodyear stock-carslicks (27x8 front and 27x10 rear) on Cragar 397 15-inch wheels.

While all that is straightforward stuff, the best parts of both cars arethe parts fabricated for them by Matt Sweeny of the Tokyo Drift shop.Both chassis are tied together with Sweeny-built custom rollcages, andthe interiors from both have had their stock panels replaced bySweeny-made aluminum panels. The stock instrumentation was knocked outin favor of Auto Meter gauges in custom panels, and the seats are Beardlow-back buckets.

Bill Mitchell rates the World Class 509 with Merlin aluminum heads at560 hp, and when it starts in the Monte, it seems like the FiberglassTrends cowl-induction hood is about to be sucked in. The sound isintense, with the exhaust pounding through Hooker headers and Flowmasterdual-chamber lers to produce the sort of cacophony you'd expectstanding directly behind an F-18 as it launches off a carrier deck. Andthis was the mild Monte Carlo.

With Dennis McCarthy himself grabbing the Grant steering wheel andmuscling the old-school Hurst Verti-Gate shifter, the 509ci Montesquatted on its slicks and rocketed to 60 mph in just 4.41 seconds. Itran down the quarter-mile in 11.97 seconds at 118.27 mph. Remember theseare stock-car slicks with relatively stiff sidewalls and carcasses builtto corner, not to launch. The car was wiggling its butt under theonslaught of the big-block's claimed 585 lb-ft of peak torque on everyshift. It was like watching Carmen Electra walk away from you whileaccelerating to 118.27 mph.

From a personal perspective, I've driven and seen a lot of movie carsover the last 10 years, and none of them came close to the performanceof the 509-powered Monte Carlo. It was raw, nasty, and brutal, but it'salso likely the quickest streetable car--in real life as opposed tocelluloid fiction--ever built for a movie. That might not be sayingmuch, but it's saying something.

After that performance, the antition about what the 572-poweredcar--with an engine Bill Mitchell rates at 725 hp--would do was intense.When the 572 fired to life in California, weather patterns all the wayto Alaska changed. It idled as if each cylinder were a Howitzer. And onthe first run McCarthy made, something let go in the drivetrain.

Oh well, we'll just have to drive it again later.

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Reply #20 – September 15, 2008, 02:24:58 AM

either way i would have expected more although trapping almost 110 is decent enough i guess...

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Reply #21 – September 15, 2008, 05:55:41 PM

I want one of the monte's
i think thats pure shag on wheels
plus theres nothing wrong with a big ol chevy big block, but figures the chevy broke in testing but the the fords!!