New guy, iRoush

iRoush

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Hi there. Nice to meet everyone. My name is Mike, better known as iRoush. I'm kinda new to the SVT world. I recently did a GT500 motor swap into my Roush stage 1. I must say, I LOVE it! Special thanks to fellow member here, Boozshey. He is the reason I have this motor.

Well, I'm 21, I live in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I love to hit the track as much as possible. Sadly, only been twice since I got this motor put in. Trying to get a little faster. I'll get there, just takes time.

On to the rides...

My first truck was a 1993 Chevy 1500. I loved it because it was mine. It was a great truck. But I owned all of 7 months before I got a major upgrade...
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Here is the upgrade. a 2008 F-350 King Ranch. This was an AMAZING truck and I plan to get another one day. This thing had 650 ft-lbs of torque and 350HP. I would race all kinds of ricers and shit, and whoop 'em! Imagine if I chipped it. I took this thing everywhere! Mudding, trips to where ever, I didn't care. I put almost 30,000 miles on it in 8 months. But, fuel started getting bad in price and I couldn't do it. $5+ a gallon was killing me. So, I had to get rid of it. :(
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That's when this Roush came about. It was sitting on the lot, looking sexy and I knew I wanted a mustang. But, at the time, I was searching for a Black GT Vert. They had NONE! But, I kept eying that blue Roush on the lot. So, they worked me a deal and I drove off that day. Here's the car soon after I bought it.
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And this is something like what I look like today...

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*Edit: More pics

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That's my girlfriend's car behind me. 2011 V6 with intake, tune and exhaust. Running 13.7 in the 1/4.
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Teethy

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Welcome to the site!

... And what the hell do you do for a living?? 21 whipping a King Ranch and a Roush? Niiiice.

I bought my terminator at 21... but no way I could have pulled a King Ranch Stroker :beer:
 

iRoush

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Thank you everyone!

Lol. The King Ranch was at 18. My family was blessed with a nice chunk of money from g-ma. RIP. So, I got the truck out of it. lol. Loved the truck. Now working on buying another one and actually chipping it this time. Then I can park the Roush and build that baby up without all the miles.

The hood is from VIS Racing. I love the hood!

The Roush has 85,xxx miles on it. But with the motor swap and the whole ECU swap, I'm only showing 20,xxx miles. So that's what the motor has. I'd like to keep the mileage down. But it's kinda hard when you have 530+rwhp. Current mods are 2.59 pulley, Steeda intake, Roush stage 2 suspension, roush big brake upgrade, Roush o/r axle backs and VMP tune. Soon to go in is a Lethal o/r X. Then, paint. I'll take a new pic of the stripes on the car. They are cracking. BAD!
 

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Love the GT500 motor swap. Great looking ride you have there. And...welcome to SVTPerformance. :)
 

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