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    The Force is Strong"R" With This One

    Hey - I was scrolling thru pics of your beautiful car and noticed the shipping spacers were still installed... My dealer prepped my car and missed these it took me 2 months of pounding before I found a thread where a guy bought a used GT350R and found them still in it. I guessed that was part...
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    Purchasing a used '17 GT350 what should I watch out for? ie Oil, etc.?

    Even opening the engine, you won't be able to say if the tune caused the issue... It's just that the plasma lining is so thin and if the tune causes the engine to misfire or run too lean or too rich then these conditions can cause ring/cylinder damage very easily. Even bad gas or too low...
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    Purchasing a used '17 GT350 what should I watch out for? ie Oil, etc.?

    Ahhh, I forgot you tuned your car too... Many (most) of the Oil Consumption issues I am aware of seem to correlate to tuned cars. I wanted to flex fuel mine but I no longer have confidence it would not destroy the engine.
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    Added a GT350 to the fleet of 500s

    it's a perfect daily bone stock.
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    Test drove a 2019 GT350R...

    I have a fear of tunes, not roll bars. The concern is was there a tune to go with the bar and how hard was the car run. 1500 miles is not much and you can tell a lot looking the tires, brakes, paint, and quality of the mods. The key for me is that the dealer is willing to confirm they would...
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    Test drove a 2019 GT350R...

    Is it 65k they are asking? I feel like 65k for a 1500 mile car is pricey and if they are giving you 4k under your value then 65k starts to seem too pricey. There is not many new 19R's and 20's start to get expensive again... but if you cant close that gap then I'd negotiate one like this...
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    Test drove a 2019 GT350R...

    My car has 4k miles, mostly track work, been mod'd, and I'd very much like to be the second owner for it... not for sale. So for the right price I'd gladly buy a car that's been tastefully mod'd. Have them check if it has ever been tuned and certify it hasn't, perform a compression check...
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    2017 GT350 Ford buyback car at a dealer

    Ignition cycles are reset when the computer is flashed, so if you see a number like 100, then it implies someone recently flashed the FW. This is a metric Ford uses to refuse to warranty engines and useful to know if you're buying used. It's not exhaustive proof of tune, b/c Ford may have...
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    2017 GT350 Ford buyback car at a dealer

    Being a guy that just repaired frame fails on mine, I'd have no quams about buying a buyback where the price reflect proper repairs. Listen to cold first start like 13cobra suggests and if it rattles, make them diagnose it. I'd request they provide the cylinder compression check report, lots...
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    Quick Latch mod

    It's best with 19 and newer cars... works good, looks good, easy. Pricey, but those strikers are nice. Pre 19's need the newer core support and that blows out the cost. Too bad the GT500 core support was not available when I was replacing mine... it includes the core support w/strikers...
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    Quick Latch mod

    These are completely functional latches intended to eliminate the hood flap when going over 130mph. I bought ep-hp006-bl latches in June planning to use them some way since the hood flapping really bothered me. My car is a 17, but after my crash the core support replacement part was the newer...
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    Quick Latch mod

    Here are the strikers and underhood of the latch. I used a syringe to inject some JB Weld between the skin and bottom sheet metal in the hood after picking out some of the foam deadener material and still have to make some plates to use to flatten and distribute the pin loads on the underside...
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    Quick Latch mod

    Cosmetically certainly the splitter would look better if it more closely matched the canards, but it is the stock R splitter which is decent sized, so the canards just scoop out a lot of air. I think the pressure zones created will function as desired, better brake cooling, less turbulence and...
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    Quick Latch mod

    Installed Quick Latches with the GT500 strikers. Still got some reinforcements to do but I love these
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    I saw this 2020 gt500 bumper conversion kit

    The GT500 hoodpins fit the QL assembly, but I'm missing something in the core support to screw the pin assembly into... Will call my parts guy tomorrow to try and figure that out. The height looks good and I'm going to the bodyshop to pic up my old hood to drill it before cutting the new one...

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