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Ford Explorer Community - Maintenance - Modifications - Performance Upgrades - Problem Solving - Off-Road - Street
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Nice ride!! Now go visit Mustang Racing Technologies for the best aftermarket stuff for your car . Scott Hoag, who designed the Bullitt and the Mach 1 for Ford is the owner of MRT.
It is an AT. Had to get one becuase the wifey is going to be driving it too. It hooks up great too. The wheels hardly break if at all when you launch it. Gonna be easy to make consistent runs. At least while it is still stock. LOL I don't want to break 13.5 though. If I do, then a roll cage is mandatory.
You probably have to have a roll cage to run under 13.5 at that track. Most tracks are like that for saftey reasons, though the actual time varies a little track to track.
The track we go to it is mandatory if you break 13.5s. They just changed it though, it used to be 14 flat. They gave us an extra half second. That is why I originally wanted a coupe. However, one of the conditions of me getting this car was that it had to be a vert. So said the wife. LOL Who am I to complain?
OK, so I've done some calculating. So that 14.03 second quarter mile time was with a passenger in the vehicle. With the horsepower calculator, it came out to about 297hp at the flywheel. Now subtracting the weight of the passenger, to get it to read 297hp again, it says I should run the quarter in about 13.78 seconds.
The intake I am putting on with tune should boost that up to around 345hp. So if the calculations are correct, I should be running the quarter in about 13.11 seconds. Can't wait till March so I can take this beast to the track to get some solid numbers. Gonna have to remember to change the limiters though. Break 13.5 then I get kicked for not having a roll cage.