So I haven't been around the forums at all until I bought my 3rd "newer" Mustang about 3 weeks ago. I picked up my new to me 2012 Boss 302 with 24k miles on it. VERY nice condition for a nearly 5yr old car and I test drove the car on a cloudy, ugly, rainy day (stupid) but oh well I fell in love with the whole feel of the car and it felt RIGHT. So I bought the car that day and took it home and realized that all the tint on the windows was totally screwed up. Even with my eyes up against the back window I couldn't see through it...Again, I drove the car on a crappy day so I thought maybe it was fog on the back window. Not a big deal, the tint was totally screwed on all the windows so I fixed all that and stripped off all the double layered ghetto tint and got a whole new nice tint job with top quality 3M stuff. So at the dealer I also looked closely over the mechanical parts of the car to look for signs of mods. I found the Kooks axle backs, the Kooks side pipes and what I thought was the stock H - Pipe...Sales person told me yea it had to have "new cats" put on. OK sounds cool no biggy. 2 days later I jack the car up to find cat delete pipes and the H-Pipe has what looks like resonators or cats of some sort but not the factory ones that come down off the stock exhaust manifolds. Where the cat deletes connect to the H - Pipe the clamps were a bit loose (thus causing some noises I was hearing). I tighten those, and had other noises coming from the Kooks side pipes and tightened the outer parts where they exit on both sides. I believe I sorted out all the little kinks and bugs that the previous owner left with the car and the dealer was too damn lazy, cheap and full of absolute garbage to fix correctly. Oh, lets not forget there was no lug key for the wacko lugs on this car which was another nice surprise so I had to search a LOT and finally found a little sticker in the car that had the reg key for Gorilla where you call in and wait 7-10 days for your new replacement lug key. Lug key came in, THANK GOODNESS it was correct for the lugs that were on the factory black spoke 19's. Don't know why the factory wheels would have aftermarket lugs unless someone just wanted 20 silly shaped 8 splined lugs I guess...Anyways I got that sorted out too.
Fast forward to last week I feel mostly happy with the car so I say lets move forward with it. I went ahead and ordered my "starter pack" of required mods that I've run on all of my newer Mustangs. I got the Corsa Xtreme Axle Backs, Pypes after cat X pipe, Steeda CAI, XF4 tuner and Gunmetal Forgestar CF5's in 19x9.5 and 19x11 with normal black splined tuner lugs. I'm just waiting for my NT555 G2's to arrive tomorrow to replace the stock size 285's out back with some new G2 305/35/19 meats on the 11" wide rears. (oh P.S. I also only got the Red key with the car, no other key included)(also I seriously dislike the Kooks side pipes, too drony and echoey for me and too much of a Police magnet for my red car)
So here's the evolution of my Boss so far, as of today after owning it for 3 weeks, and coming this Saturday morning the Steeda CAI will go on, along with the X pipe and it will be tuned by Sai Li also on Sat morning.
Here she is.....Can anyone tell me how the heck the tail of the pony on the grille gets taken out also? Baffling lmao...Another thing I have to replace but I'm rollin with the punches...
After I bought her and got all the tint stripped and professionally redone...
New wheels going on the other night...
Corsa Xtremes on the other night...
How she sits as of 2 days ago on the new rims...
Fast forward to last week I feel mostly happy with the car so I say lets move forward with it. I went ahead and ordered my "starter pack" of required mods that I've run on all of my newer Mustangs. I got the Corsa Xtreme Axle Backs, Pypes after cat X pipe, Steeda CAI, XF4 tuner and Gunmetal Forgestar CF5's in 19x9.5 and 19x11 with normal black splined tuner lugs. I'm just waiting for my NT555 G2's to arrive tomorrow to replace the stock size 285's out back with some new G2 305/35/19 meats on the 11" wide rears. (oh P.S. I also only got the Red key with the car, no other key included)(also I seriously dislike the Kooks side pipes, too drony and echoey for me and too much of a Police magnet for my red car)
So here's the evolution of my Boss so far, as of today after owning it for 3 weeks, and coming this Saturday morning the Steeda CAI will go on, along with the X pipe and it will be tuned by Sai Li also on Sat morning.
Here she is.....Can anyone tell me how the heck the tail of the pony on the grille gets taken out also? Baffling lmao...Another thing I have to replace but I'm rollin with the punches...
After I bought her and got all the tint stripped and professionally redone...
New wheels going on the other night...
Corsa Xtremes on the other night...
How she sits as of 2 days ago on the new rims...
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