4th gen Mustang GT V8

Pick your top 3
>(FL/$4400) 2001 Mustang V8 134kmi
tallahassee.craigslist.org/ctd/d/2001-ford-mustang-gt-46-v8-5/6430026373.html
>(FL/$4000) 1996 Mustang V8 128kmi
daytona.craigslist.org/cto/d/1996-ford-mustang-gt/6408970128.html
>(NC/$4400) 2000 Mustang V8 155kmi
charlotte.craigslist.org/cto/d/2000-mustang-gt-sale-or-trade/6389839373.html
>(NC/$3500) 1997 Mustang V8 Xkmi?
greensboro.craigslist.org/cto/d/1997-mustang-gt/6432481430.html
>(AL/$3000) 1997 Mustang V8 Xkmi?
bham.craigslist.org/cto/d/97-ford-mustang-gt/6414713134.html
>(MI/$3500) 1996 Mustang V8 Xkmi?
hattiesburg.craigslist.org/cto/d/96-mustang-gt-for-trade/6406307425.html

current budget is $2650 but I'll have roughly $4000 in the next few weeks, I can wait and talk people down fairly well.

k my guy texted back, Alabama '97 has 111k miles

I'd go for one of the new edge ones, they've aged much nicer.

I bought a 81k 99 cobra from a dealer for 6.5k.
It was so below market value I didnt even have to pay down on it.

After that I've spent too much upgrading it, working on it, spending time in it. Even wrecked it twice. Once just bumper paint damage the other l had to drive 200 miles to buy a 100 dollar door.
They are good cars.

They're actually horrible cars (I've owned two). But they are cheap for what you get

If you hate random things rattling over time. Warped interior pieces. Terrible rubber bushings. Upgrading things because the factory didnt. Then yeah theyre dog shit.

Otherwise theyre cheap, soon to be, money pits. That can still surprise some people on the street for how old they are. Which l hope more people here knew.

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Good cars

But

Those hypereuctectic pistons

Which ones are good

I’m a fan of SN95’s. I’ve had two. Fun cars, reliable, but hypereuctectic pistons are shit if you want to add a power adder.

Which of the six linked in the OP I mean

Oops.

Honestly OP, I’d save a little more and get a 96-98 4V. I had one to 120k and it was great. Or, if you’re looking at a 96, you could go back one more year and get the 5.0. It’s much easier to work on yourself (in my opinion - pushrod vs OHC).

There’s so many factors with those cars I don’t think I can steer you the right way. Make sure you drive it, I wouldn’t get an auto either.

Yeah the 96-98 cobra is a good car. No faulty IRS and a 305hp engine that happily revs to 7k

Yep. I loved mine. 3.73’s made it boogie

Ive read 4.30 is the minimum gear people get nowadays. I have 4.56 now. Sometimes I think I have too much gear. So much Im even buying a second car to commute.
What do you think about that? Some guys never step over 4.10 but with this dohc they were screaming I needed more.
It is insane though.

I wanted more first gear. Second was the sweet spot with 3.73’s. I was on a 75 shot and couldn’t hook anyways so 4.10’s woulda been brutal

Also, 4.56 in a T-5 would have been asinine.

That's what I've got. I snapped 2 terminator halfshafts on slicks. Who knows when the next one will go. I launch at 3200.

There were a lot of updates done in '01, but rule of thumb is always get the newest one possible.

I have a 2003 W/ 114K miles and proven maintenance schedule at $2600, problem is it's a V6. I don't need more than a V6 but I don't want to have the regret others have

My 99s cupholders are absolutely infuriating. The 03 mach 1 my buddy has, it has a much superior cupholder

Shit that actually matters.

Bump

Fuck you guys

So many threads with New Edges

Motors/drive trains are sold and last forever, the plastic parts don't