4.6L Mustang

Hey guys,
A friend of mine picked up a 5-speed 06 Mustang V8 recently. He wants to get more power out of it and put on some wider wheels. Any suggestions for where to start and what brands for parts are good?
I suggested he do a full exhaust with headers and an intake to start and go from there. Lemme know thanks

All of what Tye has done. I'm sure he'll comment.

the factory exhaust manifold design is awesome and most people don't see much of a benefit from headers. midpipe and catback are a good start, and most intakes will require a tune or some little adapter plate that makes it pretty much worthless. either way he'll want a handheld tuner at least. americanmuscle.com is a really good site for Mustang parts, lots of customer reviews and installed product pictures.

Tune from tye for handjob

Gears are always a good mod for making the cars faster and more fun to drive.

yes and if he wanted to downgrade and make it slower he could buy the gears I just posted up for sale like 30 minutes ago

Boost.

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Gears are always a good mod for making the cars faster and more fun to drive

depends. my 4.10's made no difference from a roll compared to the 3.55's. But being an 06, it came stock with 3.31's but there are many other places to spend money first.

1. a good cold air intake kit (C&L racer or JLT)
2. charge motion delete plates (similar to the tumbler valves found on scoobies)
3. Underdrive pullies
4. off road x or h pipe
5. a good tune (which i can provide via hptuners for a nominal fee)

like schiller said, headers can suck it for a S197.

that takes care of the power, now on to the shifter and suspension.

the stock shifter is OK, but not great. An MGW, hurst, etc... will be a nice upgrade.

Stock the car will wheel hop your spine right out, but that is easily fixed. A good set of lower control arms and an adjustable upper control arm will rid the wheel hop completely.

if he wants to go further, lowering springs and an adjustable panhard rod will make the car look much better.

as far as brakes go, they are pretty stout stock and find no need to upgrade until they wear out.

If you friend has specific needs/wants let me know and i can better taylor a mod list to suit his needs.

That should be a decent start.

just caught the part about the wheels. several great options for wheels. Bullits, FR500's, RTR's (my fav), GT500, etc...

Americanmuscle.com
Latemodelrestoration.com (cheapest but they charge for shipping so it can be more in the end depending on the part)
Brenspeed.com
Cjponyparts.com

all great places to shop.

two turbos. slicks and nitrous.

Hid lights add 50 whp.

I would recommend racing seats. They will have to be tuned though fyi.

tye can prolly do that. ... tune for racing seats....... how much did you gain tye?

overblown wrote:

I would recommend racing seats. They will have to be tuned though fyi.

That's only in subarus. Take a hefty shit and you have to retune the car.

i found that NOVI 2000 superchargers have a pretty good impact on those 4.6l mustangs

And a pretty negative impact on their 3650 transmissions

240sxguy wrote:

overblown wrote:

I would recommend racing seats. They will have to be tuned though fyi.

That's only in subarus. Take a hefty shit and you have to retune the car.

telling the truth.

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I would recommend racing seats. They will have to be tuned though fyi.

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tye can prolly do that. ... tune for racing seats....... how much did you gain tye?

btw i hate all of you.

and the tune is still in the experimental stages right now with the seats.

Blown91LX wrote:

Boost.

X2.

Even a N/A bottom-end will take 5-7 PSI as long as there's no detonation.

I was running 10 lbs of boost. And ran the shit out of it . Still runs great .




Better yet put a ls1 in it. Lol . Or the new 5.0

ik wer u can get a ls1...

but if thats not the route u wanna go heres a link to his first mod

https://wistreetandtrack.forumotion.com/t1799-the-absolute-best-performance-mod-ever

lol thanks guys
I think we have a good idea where to start

lol ok, hope you found my post in all that bs. If you want to know what brands to get or anything else just let me know.

STiedVR4Guy wrote:

Tune from tye for a tj

Fixed.

Towel job ?