Sean's 2004 Mustang Mach 1 - ZOMG TORQUE ARM!

[sean3]

Bored so I figured why not make one of these

Brought it home May 2008, 58k miles. Previous owner had installed an intake, catback, and... *GASP* RED NEON LIGHTING. God only knows what he was thinking, but they're gone now.



First thing to go was the awful stock shifter and metal shift knob that burnt my hand every day in the summer. Went with a pro 5.0 shifter. The difference was night and day.

Fast forward to August 2008 and I finally started autocrossing. F drag racing Wasn't long before "conekiller" became my nickname







For those who don't know, the mustangs camber curve is about as awesome as bashing your head against the sidewalk. The only affordable option I had to help that stayed within SCCA "stock" class rules was this massive 35mm Steeda front swaybar



Next up was replacing the awful excuse for a tire that goodyear had "designed". When Tirerack had their closeout sale on the Bridgestone RE-01R I jumped on it. 245/45/17, they look a lot bigger in my living room than on the car



Got sick of being blinded by headlights at night and got the rear and 1/4 windows (keepin it legal) tinted 5% by AutoFX in Cherry Hill. Also popped in some xenon headlight bulbs and removed my foglights because one of the bulbs died and I liked how it looked without them.





Most recently I got a killer deal on a Magnaflow X-pipe /w hi-flow cats. Installing it was an absolute nightmare. The manifold to midpipe bolts did not want to come off OR go back on. Spent 7+ hours working on it and I still need to take it to a shop with impact tools to get them torqued down properly. HUGE thanks to my friend Jared (JKZ) for helping out (read: doing most of the work) with this. Sounds absolutely wicked now! I'll get a video ASAP.

And just a few more pictures Ciotti has taken at our weekly meets





Mod list:

Power/driveline
JLT ram air intake
SLP loudmouth II catback
Magnaflow catted X
Pro 5.0 short throw shifter

Suspension
Steeda 35mm tubular front swaybar
Prothane poly swaybar endlinks
Bilstein 03-04 cobra coupe struts
Bilstein HD shocks
H&R Race springs (isolators removed)
Maximum Motorsports camber/caster plates (5.5* caster -1.75* camber)
Maximum Motorsports XL full length subframe connectors
Maximum Motorsports HD rear lower control arms
275/40/17 Sumitomo HTR Z III
2003 Cobra wheels
1.25" rear wheel spacers
0.25" front wheel spacers

Appearance
8" shorty antenna
black "MUSTANG" bumper inserts
FRPP cobra style shift knob
5% tint rear and quarter windows
wing delete
DDMtuning 35w 6000k apexcone raptor HIDs
foglight tint overlays