Magnaflow Foose Mustang Part 2

Today on muscle car, the Magni

Foose Mustang gets a new stance and a lot more muscle then hit the pavement for a test drive. Plus, take a look back at 45 years of Ford's famous pony car.

Hey guys, welcome to muscle car. Our Magni flow Foose Mustang is back in the shop and even though it's looking pretty good, we ain't done with it yet.

This car is gonna be a combination of Chip Foose style and our need for speed and when we're done with it, we're gonna give this one of a kind modern day muscle car away to a lucky power block fan.

The first thing we did when the stock 2010 Mustang rolled into the shop was let Chip Foose come up with an all new design. We bolted on a magni

exhaust, got the graphics laid out and rolled it into the booth for a new paint scheme

with the paint and graphics done. We added a rouse body kit and a set of foose wheels.

The paint and wheels look great, but she's kind of got an altitude problem. Some I bought

orange springs, give it the stance. It needs throwing some bear brakes and some Bill Stein shocks and she'll be ready to handle our plans for under the hood. We are all about cramming more power down the throat of this pony and

the Edelbrock e-collar, the

stock 4.6 L from 315 horse to well over 450.

The latest generation of Mustangs have been engineered so even an average

working in his driveway can do almost any repair. The whole tear down for this super charger install took less than an hour.

The guys at

Brock and made the super charger easy to install. You can go from box to pavement in less than a day and with its unique inverted design, there's no hood clearance issues. You don't have to punch any holes in the oil pan and with a handheld programmer, you can tune it yourself, which means there's no waiting at all for your ECM to make its way through the mail.

The first thing to go in is the heat exchange followed up by the waterfall.

Now, you guys have heard me say before how much I hate wiring. That's one cool thing about this kit. It comes with basically a plug and play wiring harness. So you don't have to worry about melting your engine down because of one sensor that's not hooked up correctly

to swap out a couple of connectors and one splice even I can handle that.

There are some advantages to late model wiring. One is that all the plugs come apart with no cutting, which means all you need is a little patience and focus.

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while I was exploring my newfound wiring skills, Tommy was finishing up the plumbing for the heat exchanger.

This kit uses the stock coolant and bypass tubes. But since the spacing on the intake is different, they have to be cut apart

every bracket and pulley you need is included with the super charger.

Since the addition of this kit alters the routing of the accessory belt Edelbrock

has redesigned the

ili pulley setup with a bracket that makes it a no brainer

with all the groundwork done. It's time for the meat and potatoes of this project.

The intake over rings go in and that big old lung goes on.

The kit includes a set of 41 pound injectors that snap into the factory fuel rail replacing injectors is kind of like jetting a carburetor in a car. If the jets are too small, you lean out and detonate. It's just as important in a fuel injector car.

You've got to have the right size injectors and Elder Brock has eliminated the guess work.

Another stock part that requires some minor modifications is the belt tensioner.

The new set up requires more travel. So the factory stop is out of here.

The setup requires the alternator to face rearward instead of forward. So a different pulley is going on

while I have it on the bench. I can get the wiring extensions attached

with most of the hard work done. We're installing the throttle body and radiator hoses.

We also decided to ditch the factory air box and upgrade to an Edelbrock

cold air kit.

Now, we've just got to tie up all the loose ends.

This car is being built to showcase some hardcore performance parts and that doesn't happen sitting on the trailer.

So we're using royal purple synthetic oil filter and oil to keep it protected no matter who's driving it.

The only thing left to do is to plug in the programmer. Download the tune and fire it up, but you're gonna have to wait to hear it rumble. Yeah, because we still have boxes of parts to throw at this thing before it ever hits the street, but stick around because we'll be finishing its transformation into the Magna

Flow

Foose Mustang coming up next

after the break, find out how an inch can make all the difference.

Hey, welcome back. We've got the front suspension all removed and we're ready to start installing some of our upgrades. These Bill Stone struts have tighter valving for a quicker response.

The I box springs will improve handling and give it more of an aggressive stance by lowering it more than an inch

before the new Bill Steins can go on. I need to install the stock shock mounts to them. I'll be using a spring compressor to do this, but I'm guessing you probably don't have one of these in your garage.

No problem. Just take them to a shop and they'll get you fixed up in no time.

Now. One nice thing about not going overboard on the lowering is we don't need camera correction kits to get the front end of line.

Everything bolts together just like the factory parts.

We got lucky on the yellow struts and the red sway bars, the colors match our new graphics almost perfectly.

The stock rotors look puny next to these big foose brakes built by bear.

They'll keep this pony reined in with no problem.

And when you're doing suspension modifications, it's important to address the vehicle as a whole. If you only modify the front suspension, you could end up

car that over steers. If you only modify the rear suspension, it could under steer. That's why most companies offer kits

and we want the handling on this car to be as neutral as possible. So we'll be replacing the brakes, springs, shocks and rear sway bar to all match the front.

That's it, man. We're all out of parts to put on this thing. Now, all we have to do is bleed, the brakes, put the rubber back on it and put a quick tune on the engine and we can take it out for a cruise and that's coming up later in the show

up next America's best selling pony car is celebrating 45 years. We'll take a look back at how it became the legend it is today,

Mustang,

the original

Mustang three new ways to answer the call of Mustang.

It's hard to imagine the car world without it. Ever since it hit the ground in 1964 the stampede hasn't let up.

And the Mustang of today still captures the style, the power and the spirit of the pony car that kicked it all off. 45 years ago

when the Mustang debuted on April 17th, 1964 more than 22,000 were sold that day.

By the end of the second year, more than a million were on the road

but the Mustang may have never left the stable without the vision of one man

in 1962 Ford was still fresh off the Edzel disaster. Ford. VP Lee Iaccoca saw a way to revive the blue oval brand with his total performance concept.

It first took shape in the Mustang one, a futuristic looking mid engine two seater road

here, but Iaccoca knew it was too impractical and he'd never get it approved for production.

So he pushed for a low price sports car, small and fun to drive. But roomy enough for three of your friends to keep down costs. It had to be designed on the same frame as the Falcon and reach showrooms. In less than 18 months,

the designers went back to the drawing board and came up with something a lot like the classic mustang. We know today

with some more refinements. It was unveiled at the New York World's fair and the country went wild.

It could be any car you wanted it to be a sleek coop, sporty rag top or killer fast back. You could get a six banger or a high powered V8

bucket seats, a four on the floor and a laundry list of options all with a price tag starting at just 2400 bucks.

The first GTs came late in 65 and included things like fog lights, rally pack gauges and 271 horses under the hood.

The man Carol Shelby, engineer, race driver,

the car, the Shelby Mustang GT

Ford teamed up with Shelby all through the sixties to create a limited edition series of race ready Mustangs.

The GT 350 was a two seater sporting racing stripes and horsepower ramped up to over 300.

67 was a turning

one

the year. It got its first big block. Shelby dropped in a 428 that made over 400 horse known as the GT 500 regular Mustang's got a 390 V8 making 320 horse to help compete against a brand new Camaro.

The original Mustang, it opened up a whole new way to swing.

Now, get ready to swing again.

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the little pony got bigger and badder as the six came to a close Trans Am racing spawned the Boss 302 and the Boss 429. It was so big. They had to modify the suspension.

The Mustang muscled its way into the seventies but gradually the oil crisis and EPA regulations took their toll on performance.

In 74. It was stripped down to an economy gas zipper.

The Mustang two

and sport versions had more bark than by

five years later, the Mustang was resurrected with a fresh look on Ford's new Fox body

ushering in a new era of performance.

The GT package returned in 82 and the 83 models got a 5 L engine with 175 horses the most since the 71 boss 351

for the fourth generation Ford brought back the classic styling cues of the original like side scoops, three element tail lights and the signature long hood and short deck.

When the pony car turned 40 it was time for another revamp and this time Ford really went retro, bringing all the elements of the original design into the 21st century.

It was an instant hit with the public reigniting muscle car fever and spurring Chevy and dogs to play catch up

not to be outdone. Ford unleashed a bold new version for 2010 1 that added a more aggressive stance to that iconic style

for almost half a century. The Mustang has been proven that it's one wild horse that won't be broken.

Coming up, the guys put this one of a kind pony through its paces. Find out how you could end up behind the wheel.

Hey, guys, welcome back. We finally got this dude down on the ground and I don't care what anybody says. One inch can make a world of difference. I mean, look at it. This thing looks mean now it took a few minutes and downloaded the tune out of the programmer. We are finally ready to take this thing out on the road. See what kind of beast we've created.

Oh, that sounds good. Not bad at all.

We finally caught up on our sleep. So we were able to let some black top roll under the new rubber.

I really do dig the exhaust, man. It sounds good when you call on it

or even if you just kind of ease into it, keep it under the radar. If you know what I'm saying? 70 mile an hour is just a nice little rumble.

Yeah,

that's cool. Just let you know there's something going on, you know,

I like it

now. It may not ride like a grandma's caddy, but it definitely rides nice enough for a cross country trip. No problem,

no suspension of grades really tightened up the handling, man.

I

tell you one thing that I really enjoy about this is the wine of the supercharger, man.

Dude, I'm honestly impressed with the super charger.

It even tunes itself for you. You know what, I paid to tune my mustang

after my last engine, almost 1000 bucks,

it cost me to bring it in and have a dyno tuned and a new ECM burned and the whole bit was almost 1000 bucks.

And we'd also like to give a big shout out

to bear bras because their brakes were good.

Whoa,

those are awesome.

Hey, Ford. Congratulations on 45 years of the mustang. Send another one our way on the 50th anniversary and we'll do it all again,

you know, days like this make those long days and long nights all worthwhile. I'd like to give a big thanks to our good buddy, Chip Foose for helping us turn this bone stock GT into the magna flow Foose Mustang. Yeah, you can enter to win this beauty at Pilo tv.com. So check it out,

man.

We still got some gas left, man. So until next week we're out of here.