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Originally posted by CANTONRACER:

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I remember when a good bud of mine bought a 87 5.0 5 speed LX..which was also a speed density car(which were faster than the maf guys many times).

He bought it because it was the strongest of the number of 5.0's he tested and it was by far the fastest(spanked the others).

Went to the track..it ran 14.4@97 mph...stock...he was all excited.

So he went and bought a pulley set for it, h-pipe, cai and was going to change the timing to 14 deg.

Guess what...the pulley he bought...same one on the car already...the h-pipe...already one...the cai, already one...and the timing...already set to 14 deg.

But he told a many it was stock before he knew it was modded.

Unless someone bought the 5.0 Stang new...who knows what it could have?

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how could your buddy not tell he had a couple of mods on his car by just looking at it???

i mean a cai is pretty obvious,as is an hpipe,and for that matteran ud pulley isn't too hard to recognize...and btw i those are hardly mods,he might have added about 10-15hp max with those mods,probably 0 hp for the cai,which on a stang is mostly for looks..

and btw yes the speed density cars were a bit faster STOCK,but with any serious mods(heads,cam,intake)a swap to mass air is necessary or the car will run like chit..

Originally posted by CANTONRACER:

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How...did you know everything about your car the first time you bought it?

This happens all the time...I see it often at the local dyno shop I work at with guys buying something, thinking it is stock, dynoing it and then I look at what they have and inform them they already have it...

Just like a bud of mine that sold his 04 Lightning but did not take out the shift kit...the person who buys it is going to think..."man, wait until I put the shift kit in this truck, it will really shift hard"...only to find out when they drop the pan...guess what, what they bought is already there....

Unlike most...I have the ability to look at a 5.0 fron the outside and tell you the timing and if the car has an h-pipe...

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Originally posted by chrisilversvt:

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and it is also pretty hard to tell sometimes if a stang has a true offroad or high flow hpipe,and i've been into the mustang scene for over 10 years now....i had a million people swear up and down my cousin had an offroad h on his car when in reality all he had was a catback...so i'm finding your statements pretty hard to believe..

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Originally posted by RTStabler51:

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Off Road H-Pipe = NO Cats
High flow H-Pipe = Cats

Doesn't seem to hard!

Originally posted by chrisilversvt:

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and it is also pretty hard to tell sometimes if a stang has a true offroad or high flow hpipe,and i've been into the mustang scene for over 10 years now....i had a million people swear up and down my cousin had an offroad h on his car when in reality all he had was a catback...so i'm finding your statements pretty hard to believe..

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i knnow the difference between the 2 what i meant is that it is sometimes hard to tell the difference by SOUND alone....by SOUND,anybody with any sort of brain can look at them and tell the difference...