David,

It was not my intention to start a rally cry from mustang owners here. Look dude I have several friends that own mustangs and I generally like them. However lets get back to the fox body 5.0. I think most here will agree that this is a car with seroius potential. This point has been proven many times by there ability to run 10 sec times with very little modding. The 03/04 cobra. Again a great platform. Aside from the independent rear they are bad ass. They prove to be one stout car with just minor mods. This is my point. Don't get me wrong anything can be made fast. But these mustangs have some pretty serious potential.

Brett

 

Pitiful? Ok maybe bone stock they didn't put down jaw droping numbers but even bone stock there wasn't many factory stock imports in the same price range that could keep up. I don't remember Mustangs having trouble selling and Mustangs get modded more than any other car so I really don't think that that had much too do with Idle Wild. There are speed shops everywhere that specialize in Mustangs and chances are that they all won't survive.

 

Non cobra mustangs were pitiful between those years. Where have you been. Look I'm not a big Honda fan at all but when a civic si or crx si can keep up with a stock mustang thats pitiful. Spend enough time at the track and you will see for yourself. Look as I said before the mustang came down from it's glory days for a few years and thats it. Also Idlewild did not have quite the same reputation as Costal dyno. Sam over at costal will be around for quite a while I'm sure.

 

99+ GT's run high 13's stock, civic si's run what 15's? how is that keeping up? and what fast imports are there STOCK in those years for that price? just stop trying to act like you know what your talking about and trying to make it seem like imports took over everything.....

 

I was in my Mustang hiding in the corner from all of the imports.

 

I did, and yes it was a cheap shot. Get a grip? I'll get a grip if you don't post in this thread without having something worth adding to the conversation about Idle Wild. That's all I wanted was to know what happened, not your personal opinion on the Mustang's glory years.

How do you define Glory years? 96-98 GT's may have been nothing special stock, but they weren't exactly slow either compared to cars of those years. 99-02 Seems just fine to me too

Either way, they were good enough to keep the Mustang line going, I don't see any 2005 240's running around, just 350Z's.

So being pissed because someone like you decided to come in and try to take over a thread is "crying?" And then lemme guess because I am somewhat new to this site means that I have to take s**t from someone like you that's been around awhile? I think not. If you look at any of the other forums I am on, Corral, Stangnet, my own clubs site, you can see I never bash anyone or anything or start "flamewars" and I never would have got pissed at you if you'd just posted something related to the topic.

does us meeting at the track have ANYTHING to do with this Does that fact that your car is faster justify what you did? And it's people like me that give this site a bad name huh? Ok we had a disagreement so let's go to the track to settle this Person with the faster car must be right huh?

And also where did the 18 yr old little knowledge king ass come from? That doesn't make sense.

Launch, to be 100% honest with you. I know you may have not intended for your comment to be taken that way, but if you go back and read it I'm sure you can understand where I'm coming from. Bottom line is the mustang comment was not neccesary and you had to know it had nothing to do with the topic at hand.

Can you honestly say you wouldn't be pissed if I came to a thread where you wanted information and just said "such-and-such years were not glory years for the 240" and so forth. Then all the 240 guys would jump all over me and you're thread would be Mustang vs. 240 instead of what you initially wanted.

Wouldn't that make you mad too?

 

[QUOTEWouldn't that make you mad too? [/B][/QUOTE]

No not really. 240's in stock form suck for power but handle great. The version of the 240 that was sent to the U.S came with the ka24 motor that was used for the Hard Body trucks. So if you said the 240 was weak I would agree with you. However you on the other hand take it to heart. I guess it's partly to do with your age as most of the young guys on here are easily offended. However some of us have been drag racing longer than you have been alive and have much more experience in this arena. Look as I stated before my comment was not to start the rally cry from the mustang crew. If you want to come to the track with me sometime and we will point out which mustangs are getting the job done at the track let me know. Your call.

Brett

 

No not really. 240's in stock form suck for power but handle great. The version of the 240 that was sent to the U.S came with the ka24 motor that was used for the Hard Body trucks. So if you said the 240 was weak I would agree with you. However you on the other hand take it to heart. I guess it's partly to do with your age as most of the young guys on here are easily offended. However some of us have been drag racing longer than you have been alive and have much more experience in this arena. Look as I stated before my comment was not to start the rally cry from the mustang crew. If you want to come to the track with me sometime and we will point out which mustangs are getting the job done at the track let me know. Your call.

Brett [/B][/QUOTE]

I wasn't offended that you said that about Mustangs, I can see what you're saying and agree with you to a certain extent. I was only upset because to me it seemed you were trying to "hi-jack" my thread. That's only thing that made me mad, nothing else.

And BTW, i know alot of nice 240's, and I actually like them

 

How I am inflamitory? :bbb: I was pissed when I read launch's post and I agree I over reacted, I never "flamed" anyone though.

With all due respect, you seem to be just a little confused here. I have never said anything bad about his 240 or any other import for that matter, only defended the mustang. Import vs. Mustang is not the issue here as far as I am concerned.

As I have said before, the ONLY issue I had was launch's original post. As you can see, it looks like me and launch have worked out that little misunderstanding.

BTW yeah, I happen to see the welds on the car and I saw the times on his sig. Congrats to Launch for building a fast car and he obviously knows his stuff. His car (from what I see in the sig) even looks good to, so double to him. Launch even appears to like Mustangs (some years anyways) so I honestly don't think that's the issue.

Anyways hopefully this is the end of the problems here, god knows I'd rather get along with everyone.

Launch when you read this, I apologize for jumping all over you in my response. I'm sure I could have said what I wanted in a better way. I apologize for my part in this misunderstanding and hope we can find a common ground in our love for cars