700 horsepower mustang gets 21" Death Penalty Sub

[CranberryYumYum 10+ year member]

i'm sorry for my immaturity your build log mechman. please forgive me. and please post some more videos!

 

[Millertime1028 10+ year member]

Looking forward to the finished results. Cool to see videos like that from an established company. Good stuff Matt

 

[Bfat567 10+ year member]

Looking forward to the finished results. Cool to see videos like that from an established company. Good stuff Matt

x2 on all this

 

[connersdad19 10+ year member]

yeah you guys need to take the interweb b!tch slapping somewhere else...nice build so far...

 

[MECHMAN 10+ year member]

We were planning to use a warden originally, but it was brought to my attention that the gap is probably a little tight to play music on one for extended periods. The first vid was shot before we made the change.

5,000 watts should be fine for very short demos and burps. Input voltage and gains will be kept very low so that nothing has to be overstressed. Just because we have that much power available doesn't mean we have to use it all the time.

few things.. first vid you said one amp.. second vid you have two amps..
why they want to waste money to make it go fast then more to make it go slow? if they wanted to make it loud add some glass packs to the exhaust..

Originally we were going to run one large amp, but it wasn't available in time to make the show. These videos where shot across a two week period, and sometimes plans have to change to accommodate conditions.

The car already runs mid 10's on DOT approved tires, and is easily capable of 9's on race gas. In order to meet the minimum weight requirements for some local racing classes, and to run conventional street tire shootouts, we would have to put at least 200 lbs of ballast into the back of the car anyway. Basically we opted to install a functional audio system, instead of bolting steel weights in the rear bumper. It's a stock style suspension drag car setup for radials, not a road race car. We want as much of the weight in the rear as possible.

Here's a video of it on street tires against a 2003 Supercharged Cobra. It has 220 lbs of ballast in the back. No transbrake, rolling off the line just above idle:

YouTube - 2003 Cobra Terminator vs. Turbo foxbody

...and it's already an open 4" downpipe, so the exhaust note isn't going to get any louder. Maybe you might put glasspacks on your sweet ride, but around here glasspacks are reserved for flatbed farm trucks and redneck '79 transams.

 

[dasinde91 10+ year member]

This looks like it will turnout nice & loud, keep updated.

Also gotta love the hot female with the pigtails getting into it too.......

 

[LDW3RD 10+ year member]

in for the awesomeness. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[MECHMAN 10+ year member]

Here's a quick update video showing the box as of last night:

YouTube - mexhmaninstall3

 

[Mr. Slate 10+ year member]

Very good tutorial. More vids please.

 

[ZO6killinsbf 10+ year member]

Saweet!!! I love it. Not too many people understand that for every 100 lb change is only like a 10hp difference. Who notices 20hp in a 700hp car?

 

[Jaredturp 10+ year member]

This will be sick. I'm calling it.

 

[98GSR 10+ year member]

If I remember correctly every 100lbs accounts for .1 of sec which is kinda of a lot at that level of racing. A plus of the build is having more wieght over the rear tires to help them hook to the track. You can say its a win win situation.

 

[hatedonmostly 5,000+ posts]

its not just how much its where.. all the weight in the back will throw the balance way off.. most of us don't car as we are trying to go fast.. not to say it had the best handling anyways its a mustang but still..

Uh what? The extra weight in the rear over the rear tires will allow the tires to hook up better.

Game over.

 

[Parker G 10+ year member]

its not just how much its where.. all the weight in the back will throw the balance way off.. most of us don't car as we are trying to go fast.. not to say it had the best handling anyways its a mustang but still..
and when you are trying to not sound like a 5 yr old its good to keep the retard lingo down.. besides you are younger than me retard

I take it you've never seen a car do a wheelie? Drag cars intentionally have soft springs up front and most people will also remove the front sway bar to help transfer the cars weight to the rear causing shitty handling but a consisent hard launch.

Keep the videos comin mechman.

 

[silvercookie 5,000+ posts]

nice turbo.