Give Your Ford Mustang GT A Hint Of GT350 With These Warranty-Friendly Upgrades
With 416bhp output from a 5.0-litre V8 and a low price to boot, the Mustang GT already offers a lot of bang for your buck. But what if you want just a little more power, without stretching to the full-fat GT350? That’s where Ford Performance’s new ‘Power Packs’ come in.
Three are on offer starting with Power Pack 1, which consists merely of a K&N panel filter and a remap. Still, it gives a healthy 13bhp/16lb ft gain over the standard car, and more importantly, you’ll get an extra 40lb ft than standard at 1500rpm.
Power Pack 2 ups the ante with a GT350 cold air intake and 87mm throttle body giving an extra 21bhp and 24lb ft, while Power Pack 3 has all of the above plus a GT350 intake manifold to provide a peak gains of 37bhp, and a 60bhp increase at 7500rpm.
It’s also being reported by other outlets that the upgrades are warranty-friendly. That’s not something mentioned in the press release, but if these are official Ford parts, that’s most likely the case.
The downside? The packs are currently for North American ‘Stangs only. We contacted Ford UK to find out if the upgrades might be available on this side of the pond at some point, and a company spokesperson told us: “Never say never. The beauty of ‘One Ford’ [the global strategy that made Mustang available in the UK in the first place] is everything’s already on the shelf.” However, it wouldn’t be for a while yet - the Mustang has to sustain the impressive sales it’s already enjoyed over here before upgrade availability is considered.
Cross your fingers, folks…
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Chevy has something like this too where you can put parts from higher end camaros onto lower end camaros.
For example, putting brakes from the ZL-1 onto the SS
Or even z28 parts such as the dampers and diff cooler
“416hp”?
Dammit Ford, y u no add 4 more horsepower?
Or 435 HP, if you come get a lhd model.
It is often that you don’t get a round number when you make an engine, so most manufacturers claim a smaller, nicer number (or rarely a bigger number). Say, 991.1 Turbo S is supposed to develop 560hp, but dyno tests showed that a stock car can consistently produce 564-567hp, or even more
Clearly, in case with Mustang they didn’t bother and just put the number they got
Although, I agree 420 would be better :)
OCD-Tec kicked in yo!
„I enjoy warranty“ - carguys 2016
Even if you don’t care about warranty; it’s nice to see Ford willing to help you add 60-70 horsepower to your already powerful 5 litre Mustang.
Well Ford does its job very good here, but this stuff is already old fpr them. Back in the ‘60s they made the same thing. For Example the 1961 Galaxie Starliner 390 (6.4L). It had 360hp from factory, but you could order the ‘Tri-Power-System’, which was lying in the TRUNK of the car. Owners drove from the dealer to the Ford Garage and the guys fixed the 3x2 carburetors. The result was 401hp.
But GM has been doing for for over a decade?
I don’t see a mustang meme so far. I hope not.
Agree
Dodge had this for years too but the biggest downside it’s the price which is often the double of a similar pack from another company
i’ll just leave this here https://youtu.be/rzblZGgnfP0
Chevy has had something like this. They will sell you lowering springs, track suspension/chassis enhancements, superchargers, and more, many of which come in high end Camaros like the Z/28.
http://www.chevrolet.com/performance/camaro-parts/1le-zl1.html
435hp*
Why is this such a big deal? Lots of manufacturers have been doing this for years
Because it’s cool, that’s why.