Year ago I bought an 85’ with efi and automatic transmission. It was the 165 hp but it was very quick. I out ran many of the untouched 83-84s with five speeds. I took some of the 85s with five speed. I wanted more out of it, but there wasn’t a lot available for the efi throttle body cars available. It had manifolds instead of the shorty headers. I found a totaled 85 and pulled the headers, gutted the cars and added flow masters. I had a bunch of mustang parts from my 65’ and put a pair of ford Motorsport heads on it. I put a set of 308 gears and it was alive. I dusted so many mustangs and cameros in that car. Beat a few corvettes. I always wanted to race a grand national but never got a chance. Open the hood and there was no way to tell it wasn’t straight factory. It was fun to run!

Went from 3.08 to 3.55 and was good . Then went from 3.55 to 3.90 motive gears and was awesome. Put the 3.55 in my wifes car from 2.73 and she was happy too. It's a win win. Both 5 speed cars.

My car has a c4 in it .. i went from a stock converter to a 2800 stall and from a 308 to a 373 at the same time .. that was a huge difference 😊

Sticker , stickers make power lol

Another important speed trick that I failed to mention to my racing buddies back in the early 90’s that’s very important is the Throttle Position Sensor. If memory serves me, you wanted it to be close to 1.00 on your reader. Another thing is to get someone to press the gas pedal and look to see if the butterfly in the throttle body is 90 degrees at WOT.

In the late 80's there weren't a ton of parts. My winning formula back then was: 150hp Nitrous kit, McCreary G60-15 dirt tires, gears and pulleys. Short belt to bypass smog and power steering at the track.

Totally agree, changing gears to even 3.73 with a auto will make huge seat in the pants difference.

I remember all those. Good walk through memory lane, bud.

A gear is the best mod for the money imo

Not a Mustang, but I had a bone stock low milage 95 F150 XLT single cab roller 5.0 with AODE. I did a few mods all at once that cut the 1/4 mile time by almost two full seconds. Homemade CAI, True duel Dynomax Exhaust, Hypertech performance 91 octane chip, TCI Saturday Night Special Torque converter, 3.73 gears. So for $1700 (back in 2012) and two weeks of work. I totally transformed the personality of the truck... I eventually did a cam, headers, injectors and got a little more out of it, but nothing like that first round of mods

FM40s , Full length headers , Xpipe or H , Under pullies , 373 GEAR , B or E 303 cam all great starter upgrades for someone new to the game

Lmao "certain modifications"😂 great video and tips brew definitely an extremely helpful spot on video for the guys just gettin into these cars

Don’t forget to take out the air silencer.

Back in my day I ran MT dirt track tires on my 90 notch. Man did they hook up. Also if you can find a set of electric fans. That will help a tad too

Great video and I agree with gears being a huge help. I went 273 to 373 with my t-5 and was blown away now years later I did gt40p heads and intake and I can tell you it's all starting to feel like a hot rod now.

Well put together video Brother! Great tips on easy mods for the DIY person! My favorite gears are 3.73's. They really spice things up!

I got rid of my smog pump. Got a set of under drive pulleys. My a/c doesn't work so i got a shorter belt. BBK cold air intake. 373 gears and a aluminum drive shaft. Such a huge difference.

Ditch the stock stamped rockers for some 1 6 roller rockers. Sometimes you can find a deal on some

Had a 89' coupe with trick flows,crane 2040 cam, cobra intake,24lbs inj,and some 3:73 gears and ran a 12.36 @115 in the early 90's and was the king of the streets 😆 🤣 love your channel btw its nostalgic,makes me want to get back in the Fox game!

Smog eliminated, b cam, gears, frame ties, off road pipe, used 4 cylinder coils and front struts, ssm lift bars would clean house on the streets in the 90's.

When it comes to sound ii like mines to have that deep tone and sound Gotta stick either them Flowmasters 💯

Cold air....I removed a fog light from my front bumper cover and used a flexible clothes dryer vent tube painted black, rigged it to the fog light opening and up to the air box. It's not "forced induction" so much as just direct cooler air.

as far as gears, you can go as high as 3.73 in the automatic cars to wake them up and keep them street-able. we also ran 180* stats to trick out the computer to run a little richer. Timing: Crank that shit up until you hear it ping, then back it off a little. Be sure to run 92+ octane though. Tire pressures on radials can help- but you have to just find the sweet spot on whatever tires you are running. This is all old school stuff though.

Good advice Brew. A cold air intake done right can help. Like you said though, you gotta pull in cooler air not from the engine.

all the mustang guys here in montreal canada they remove sway bar and add 4 cylinder coils in front and a 70 30 adjustable shock and the 60 ft is so much better ...

One thing that is well worth the money if you plan on banging gears and are getting traction is to reinforce the torque boxes. I put every bolt-on power adder and reinforcements like G-Load brace, strut tower brace, sub-frame connectors, except for a supercharger or turbo and ripped the torque boxes apart on my '86 GT and 91 LX.

Don’t forget setting voltage on the TPS

355s are the way to go with 5spd. 💯 correct. I built a 93 back in 2000. But I didn't change rear gears until I got new 347 with vic Jr heads & all that good stuff to track & car ran the same time & I was furious at 19yrs old. I didn't understand how much rear gears would help. Omg. I put a posi unit with 355s and I went from 9.20s to 8.0s

My 2 cents. An explorer GT40 will add good power after all those mods. I also sometimes run an underdrive crank pulley I found at Fun Ford in the 90's. This pulley is about the size of the alternator pulley in diameter with the bolts on the outside of the flange. Don't know where they sell those anymore but it will free up some serious power especially up top but doesn't keep the battery charged worth S*%&t. A nice set of equal length or long tube headers are worth some power too.

On the subject of tires, if you live in an area with a lot of dirt track racers, like me, I used to buy used IMCA Hoosier G60 tires for 20 bucks a pair. And they worked very well with a lot of heat in them

Summer of '98 I sold my super low-mile 87 coupe for $6500 and bought a 91 GT with a blown AOD for $1900. I spent the difference (plus more) to swap the GT to a tr-3550, heads, cam, intake, gears, suspension, and a shimmed 5115 dry kit spraying 175 on Hoosier quick time pros. MF'ING RACECAR 😂😂😂😂. It barely scraped into the 11's in that Texas heat. Couldn't tell me shit, I felt like John Force 😂

I had those $72 eBay 3.73 gears in my shopping cart for the past week. I quickly clicked purchase now. 😅 I’d rather have used Oem gears and some new koyo bearings over most of the new stuff. Usually only need backlash adjustment.

Good stuff 3:73 gears for me

I'm looking into what I want to do first with my foxbody, already converted to carb as I find it easier to work with, timing is up would suggest everyone to just buy a new balancer off the bat to be safe, thinking 4.10's + maybe the summit 303 cam, hope that's a decent little combo for now

Love the content brew2l.. I believe I've got all of them😁😁😁.

My 89 gt with just long tubes o/r h pipe, cai, cobra manifold, 65mm throttle body, maf sensor, and underdrives beats and puts up good races with a lot of newer cars still having the 2.73 gears and even did the same when it was just headers, exhaust, and cai

Rear lower control arms and subframe connectors before drag radials.

Remove front crash bar and move battery to the rear. Electric fans free up a lot of drag on engine as well.

Only $600 for a set of drag radials Nakea. Man, have you guys ever got it good and cheap down there. I just bought a set of Mickey Thompson’s for the back of my car and they were pennies shy of 1150 installed and balanced. Anything that you guys do down there cost us literally twice the price to do the exact same thing up here. Americans have absolutely nothing to complain about 😂

I'd enjoy having you help me rebuild my 89 mustang if oi had the money I'd pay you to restore the entire car But ii gotta do it all myself in order to learn 💯

Good Informative Video Man!!! My GT Is Bone Stock And I Will Be Looking Into Doing Some Of These Budget Friendly Mods Soon!!

On my 94 gt, after the timing bump and cold air intake. I did a catless X pipe to flow masters that dumped under the car. It really really woke that stock 302 up. The drone though was painful lol

Great pointers, don't forget about weight reduction. Ditch the spare and jack and anything else you don't need. I didn't need an interior, a stereo, heat and ac, power steering or carpet. Just 2 15 lb race buckets and that sweet V8 music annihilating my ears 😂 long tube headers. I run a short belt just for an alternator, zero parasitic losses, 2650 lbs total weight, 4.10s and a T5 and taking these farmers pick up trucks to full course at Gapplebees when the mood strikes

Don't forget to ditch the airbox silencer and put a small air bag in the RR coil spring.

Awesome 👌 👏 👍 💯 🔥

good video! I need to make a video of My 65 Fastback and full walk around.

The “10-Minute Tune Up” did wonders, if you know you know.. Evan Smith, Uncle Tony, and many of us were doing this in the late 80s. This is essentially what this video is going over.

GT40 heads are a great upgrade

They were wildcards always, the awd dsm was the true king though

That retrofox is lookin pretty sweeet!!!

Awesome laid back chill video. 👍🐺

1 have an 84 gt all stock. What are good gears. And will it effect highway driving.

Honestly man, I prefer these mild mods. I'd rather rid the motor out, clean, replace, strengthen up with beefed up parts. Ain't nothing better then a healthy running five0 with a mild cam, intake, timing bump and exhaust, smog and power bypass👍

While on the subject of that broomstick handle mod… the good ole smog delete is an easy one. Another cheap one to save some ponies is an electric fan in place of the engine driven fan.

i have always said the first mods should be gears then underdrive pulleys foxbodys become a hand full for everyone

Used under drive pulleys I got my set super cheap!!

You forgot the cheap pulleys. 8 to 12 freed up horsepower and it works

Frame connectors as simple as it sounds. Even on a mild car.

Badass video sir

410 baby !!

First and foremost I still say the retro Fox looks best with the 10th anv. Cobra wheels. Under drive pulleys were a very popular mod back in the day. I bought some of the SVE pulleys from LMR about 5 years but have never installed them lol. What’s some of your opinions? Should I put them on?

I went from 3:55 to 4:10's and I'll never go back. with my T5 Z-Spec..nothing beats the pull you get while in 3rd gear with 4.10's.

The only problem with those jones mufflers is that they’re not flowmaster….

I took the LS out and dropped a pushrod ford in and picked up 300hp

Free skinnies! A pair of donut rims, with decent 4 inch tires.

You guys had such a (ROBUST) aftermarket..... Thridgen F-Body twin guys were limited to specialized companies who was through the roof and half the performance.. A great example is exhaust.. Only (1) Company offered a mandrel bent header that flowed well enough and did okay. SLP While you guys had 50 different header, h-pipe, etc companies, we had like (1-3) and stuck with 3" MAX sized single over axle pipe. It just goes on and on like that. Hell, we was stuck with a Australian made 9 Bolt 7.75" rear-end that you could only source parts from via (1) company!!! Ratech didn't even come out with a serious rebuild/breaing kit until mid/late 2000's!!! I was so jealous at what you guys had for offerings compared to us.. Hell, i was the (1ST IN THE WORLD) to put 17x9 Cobra R 5 lug's on a Thirdgen T/A in 2001.... Just had to know what was the best bang for the buck back then... But you guys had more options than anyone...

I run 4.10’s with my T5, don’t fear the gear.

When I owned a four eyed fox, I went for underdrive pulleys. I never noticed a difference. Did any of you notice a difference when you put the pulleys on your car? Just wondering.

I’ve got most of the list already. I need to get a set of drag radials for fun at the track. Although I didn’t intend on drag racing my car when I built it. But the 275/40 r17 GoodYear F1 tires are pointless for hooking up on the street.

Didn't Wooderson have a Chevelle? 😉

Every Fox body owner knows the first thing you do is gears and exhaust.

How about an intake plenum spacer and a larger throttle body ????

Electric fans in the electric window fuse

Cut weight- it cost nothing to remove rear seats and spare tire - sucks if ya get a flat but every little bit helps.

I have HCI and it’s a beast , runs in the 5s no 🧢 💨💨💨🔥🔥🔥

What Cam was in the red GT?

The mesh in the maf on my 95 had to go... lol

My car still has the old ford SVO 172 blue roller rockers! Are they supposed to be noisy or just wore out? Good replacement?

Who built your shop ? I want one bad

What length pushrod for sve heads from lmr 61cc,e303 cam trickflow1.6 rockers on stock bottom end 93 gt 5.0 ?

Too bad you can’t do a vid on deleting smog pump. That would be nice. Explorer 8.8 is 31 spline limited slip, usually already has 3:55.s. Will require a new set of axles.

I got just a alternator and water pump

I have a 85 mustang Gt an it lost power no light won’t crank nothing happens

Tried to add comments on FB but there’s no comment available. Only likes

nope ill never need to remove a sceen on my stock maf...cuase.....i put meself a freakin crown vic mas on it yes big hole for the goal~~~~!!!! i would never go back to the stock maf meter~~~~~ period (picket it up on ebay like 10 bucks..)

373 gear and a 150 shot of nitrous.

Bigger fuel pump and injectors

A carb lol

at the first 1:00 ive asked many and even foxcast with no answer and never understood..i know you not a coyotee swap guy but why is it bad for hot air fender filter for a 5.0 pushrod but it seems to be a regular thang for coyotee swaps and new motors put it hot sitting right by motor and wtf...just sayin (scratch head)...

Save all your penny’s put a 5.3 and make 100 hp just by swapping an ls in then build from there

Remove some weight lol

Take weight out

Dum

i c this guy has no clue... CHEVYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY RULESSSSSSSSSSSSSS fords will they rust .... hahhahahah