New guy with a new (to me) Mach 1

[DRK HRS]

New guy from St. Louis here! It may not be an SVT but I've still got a supercharger and a 4v. epper:

Lookin' forward to hanging out here and learning.

3 months ago I picked up an '03 Mach 1 w/ a tick under 25k miles. Now it's got a Procharger P1SC @ 6 PSI, intercooler, 60# injectors, UPR catted X (****in' thing scrapes EVERYWHERE!), chokemasters, and putting down 448 rwhp/418 rwtq. It's my third Mustang, but my first good one lol. Tuned by Bob Monks, if anybody here is from St. Louis you probably know him...

 

[DSG2003Mach1]

nice Mach, welcome

only 6psi, auto car? either way still pretty nice numbers at 6psi

 

[03cobra#694]

Welcome to the show and good looking car.

 

[DRK HRS]

Thanks! No it's a 5-speed. My tuner is extremely good, I was blown away he could get those numbers out of it. The high compression helps. No detonation or anything else bad going on. I'm thinking of switching to a smaller pulley and having my tuner retard the timing on the top end to keep similar peak numbers, but then it should build up boost quicker.

 

[DSG2003Mach1]

i was just curious with that boost level, what size pulley is on that thing? Even with the 4" (which should make ~10psi at 6800) required a little clearancing of my valve cover.

 

[DRK HRS]

i was just curious with that boost level, what size pulley is on that thing? Even with the 4" (which should make ~10psi at 6800) required a little clearancing of my valve cover.

I'm actually not sure, I'll try to measure it tonight.

 

[DSG2003Mach1]

if its a procharger pulley it should say somewhere on the pulley

 

[DRK HRS]

I forgot to check it tonight, but according to a pulley calc online it should be 4.5" if I'm right about out stock Mach 1 crank pulleys being 6.5".

 

[Sn95Snake]

Beautiful car! I bet it is a blast!

 

[CobraBob]

First, congratulations! Looks like a really nice Mach. And you're making good power!

If your Mach isn't lowered (which it doesn't appear to be), why is your catted X-pipe scraping everywhere?

 

[DRK HRS]

Thanks I'm Really happy with this car! It's not lowered. I thought it was weird too, but if I search online about the issue a lot of people are apparently having these UPR pipes scrape a lot. I was exaggerating, it's not scraping everywhere, but it doesn't take much of a raised part of the street to get it to hit. Thinking of swapping it for another pipe soon. Bassanis are supposed to be pretty good about clearance.

 

[DSG2003Mach1]

You can also try loosening it up and push up on it. I've seen people gain quite a bit that way then just hold it up while you snug it back up

 

[DRK HRS]

I'll give that a try, my friend has a lift in his garage! Along with a badass '97 GT coyote swap. :rockon: