So I took my V down to Intune Motorsports in Saturday and spent the day with the owner, Scott. I can't even begin to tell you guys how awsome this guy is, and how good of a job he does.
Anyway, since I have an older style maggie with the 3'' pulley, I picked up a 2.8. Previously, with the stock maggie, gutted cats, and a tune, I made 398whp and 380something torque. This is on a very conservative mustang dyno. My initial base numbers were right around 300hp.
So we swapped pulleys (and I changed the fluid in my diff while he was working on a stock car), jerked the stock airbox assembly out of the car, and bolted up a new K&N cone filter Scott had laying around (which was intended for a cobra but fit perfectly!). I had the resonators cut off the car after his last tune, so after dialing in the drivability stuff, we hooked it up to the dyno.
It was a balmy 80 degrees in his shop, and we had driven around quite a bit working out some tuning issues. With a somewhat conservative tune I ended up putting down 418whp and 411wtq. While the peak numbers weren't that much different, at certain points in my run, there was an increase of 36whp and almost 40wtq. I'll post my new graph tomorrow. Unfortunately, I forgot to get Scott to print me one out that showed both runs for comparison sake.
Anyway, I can tell a nice difference in power. The blower is much louder now too, which is awsome. It reminds me of my old lightning now. I'm at 8.2 lbs of boost, so I don't think I'll be messing with the pulleys anymore. I'm extremely pleased with how my V performs now, and with the numbers I've put down. There's a shop right by the house with a dynojet, and I plan to go there maybe next weekend and see what kind of numbers I get. Scott said he wouldn't be surprised at all if I put down 475whp on a dynojet, considering how conservative his is.
Now, I've got to move on to cosmetic mods.... I tinted my fog lights and side markers today, and I've got a rear spoiler on the way. I'll get some pictures up soon.
Anyway, since I have an older style maggie with the 3'' pulley, I picked up a 2.8. Previously, with the stock maggie, gutted cats, and a tune, I made 398whp and 380something torque. This is on a very conservative mustang dyno. My initial base numbers were right around 300hp.
So we swapped pulleys (and I changed the fluid in my diff while he was working on a stock car), jerked the stock airbox assembly out of the car, and bolted up a new K&N cone filter Scott had laying around (which was intended for a cobra but fit perfectly!). I had the resonators cut off the car after his last tune, so after dialing in the drivability stuff, we hooked it up to the dyno.
It was a balmy 80 degrees in his shop, and we had driven around quite a bit working out some tuning issues. With a somewhat conservative tune I ended up putting down 418whp and 411wtq. While the peak numbers weren't that much different, at certain points in my run, there was an increase of 36whp and almost 40wtq. I'll post my new graph tomorrow. Unfortunately, I forgot to get Scott to print me one out that showed both runs for comparison sake.
Anyway, I can tell a nice difference in power. The blower is much louder now too, which is awsome. It reminds me of my old lightning now. I'm at 8.2 lbs of boost, so I don't think I'll be messing with the pulleys anymore. I'm extremely pleased with how my V performs now, and with the numbers I've put down. There's a shop right by the house with a dynojet, and I plan to go there maybe next weekend and see what kind of numbers I get. Scott said he wouldn't be surprised at all if I put down 475whp on a dynojet, considering how conservative his is.
Now, I've got to move on to cosmetic mods.... I tinted my fog lights and side markers today, and I've got a rear spoiler on the way. I'll get some pictures up soon.
, it would seem that your Maggie is sure doing its job on supplying air, but that there's a restriction downstream. Again, my suspicion is that it's in the exhaust gases trying to get through those stock manifolds and also further downstream.
