1st Place

On Sunday, August 20/2006, my Mustang club (G.V.M.A.) put on their 24th Annual All Pony Round-Up at Willowbrook Mall in Langley, B.C. Canada. It was a beautiful sunny day and a lot of B.E.A.U tiful Mustang ponies gathered for the fun in the sun. My class consisted of the new Mustangs ranging from 2005 through to 2007. 15 in total showed up for this class including mine. After the balloting and the mingling was said and done, the award presentation took place at 5:00 PM. It took a while to get to our class with roughly 9 classes to go through. Finally, it was time to announce the trophies for the top three in our class. 3rd place was awarded to a very good friend of mine who entered his black 2006 Mustang GT which was going through a Roush transplant. 2nd place went to a 2005 Legend Green Mustang GT with a couple of Shelby modifications. I, once again, was thinking that I don't think I have a chance, when suddenly the President of the club announced, "And the 1st place trophy goes to a silver.....". As soon as I heard "silver" I knew that I had locked down the top prize, since I had the only Satin Silver pony in the class. It was a awesome feeling of rejoice and relief that I broke my string of winning absolutely nothing all year. This trophy was the one that I really wanted the most since it was the biggest show of the year.

Exhaust Resonators Installed

Took the car to the local muffler shop to see how much it would cost to install a pair of resonators. Turned out it was cheaper than I thought. Would cost me only $50. I went to Lordco parts where a buddy of mine works, and he hooked me up with a pair of 2.5" Vibrant resonators. Took them back to the muffler shop, and welded them in. Here are before and after video clips of my exhaust.

Before Resonators:


After Resonators:


I know the first video clip sounds a bit louder and deeper, but the "trumpeting" still exists around the the 2500 RPM range. After installing the Vibrant Resonators, they did quiet the exhaust note a couple of desibles, but the "trumpeting" is gone. I recently had my Mustang in a local Mustang show and had quite a few compliments on the sound of my car. Now, I just want to clean up the cat-back pipes since they were hacked up from a previous installation of resonators with a different axle back that didn't sound good. I'll do this by purchasing a used pair of cat-back pipes from a local Mustang parts outlet.

Photo Album #1

Friday Night Street Legal Drags at Mission Raceway

Took the car to Mission Raceway for Friday Night Street Legal Drags. I haven't raced her since I purchased her back in April of 2005. If I remember right, she ran a 14.2 @ 100 mph. Now, with all the mods I have done to this day, I decided it was time to run her again. It was a beautiful summer evening, with a track temp of 24 degrees. My first run wasn't too bad. Here are the numbers on the time slip.

R/T .493
60' 2.149
330' 5.885
1/8 8.911
MPH 81.30
1000' 11.502
1/4 13.678
MPH 103.84

My reaction times always sucked. And as a result, I can't seem to get a good 1/4 mile ET. Traction too was a problem for me. With stock street tires, I couldn't seem to hook up. And as a result, that too slowed my ET time. I improved on my second pass, but not too much to brag about.

R/T .513
60' 2.173
330' 5.849
1/8 8.896
MPH 79.52
1000' 11.640
1/4 13.640
MPH 130.74

It seems that my runs are pretty consistant and without a set of Mickey Thompson ET Street drag tires and a quicker R/T, looks like this is what Roxy can do for now. I'll be setting up an appointment for the use of a dyno to get a custom tune done for the car which will be uploaded into my DiabloSport Predator tuner. This will be performed by Wayne Johnson of Brown Bros. Ford in Vancouver. We'll see what Roxy will run after the tune. I'm expecting a considerable difference in performance just with the tune alone. We'll see.

Future Modifications

There is still a lot to be done when it comes to modifications for Roxy. It seems that I just can't shake the mod bug for this car. Eventually, I'll be completely finished with the mods, or I'll be too deep in debt to afford them. Anyways, these are the mods planned in the near future for Roxy.

Cervini's Side Door Scoops
Cervini's Hood
Cervini's Front Bumper Facia
3D Carbon Rear Bumper Facia
Powder Coated Valve Covers (of course, Ford Blue)
FRPP Gears (either 3:73's, or 4:10's)
Billet Aluminum Fluid Caps
Billet Aluminum Strut Tower Caps
Billet Aluminum Fuse Box and Radiator Covers
Billet Aluminum Interior Dress-up Pieces
(Window Switch Plates, Heater Knobs, etc...)
Braided Metal Hoses for Appearance Purposes
Saleen Supercharger (a long way down the road)
Black Painted Shelby Stripes (10.5" wide with 1.5" gap.

Introduction

This is Roxy, a 2005 Mustang GT. She was purchased back in April of 2005 from Brown Bros. Ford in Vancouver, B.C. All the eye candy you see from the picture was not on the car when she was purchased. It was completely stock. A lot of time, money and patience went into Roxy to the beautiful machine she is today. Unfortunately, I lost a majority of photos that have been taken over the past 16 months I had her. My purpose of this blog is to archive all the write-ups of the work that I have put into this car, pictures that I have taken, as well as local car shows that I have entered.



Interior, Exterior, and Performance Modifications


Here is a list of current mods on Roxy.


Steeda CAI with High Flow Inlet Tube

Bamachips' 93 Race Tune for Diablosport Predator
FRPP Shorty Headers
UPR Products Off Road X Pipe fabricated with Magnaflow High Flow Cats
FRPP Borla/Stingers

Canuck Motorsport Springs
Hurst Competition Shifter
Adjustable Pan Hard Bar
Midwest Autogear Plenum Cover
Black matte vinyl stripes with G.T.350R side stripes
Cervini's Duck Tail Spoiler
Cervini's Quarter Window Scoops
Antenna-X 15" Shorty Antenna
Black Niche F-18's (8.5" x 19" Front, 10" x 19" Rear)
BFG's G-Force KDW (245/40/ZR19 Front, 295/35/ZR19 Rear)