I've been offline here for a long while as I retired from the Air Force back in March of '15 and have been floating around a pool drinking beer for a couple years. I started working again a while back and now have an itch ... and need, to replace some worn items and make a few updates.
"Need" comes in the form of brakes, my last oil change check sheet at the dealer scored them in the red! I'm looking to upgrade to the Fordracing kit or something comparable to the '13/'14 GT500s for the increased stopping power and reduced fading when hot.
Itch comes in the form of wanting to open her up a little now that I've broken the 50K mile ceiling. Before I get too deep in any power adders, I want to address the slight shifting issue I still have after having Ford in the tranny under warranty. The main scratching from 1-2 was mostly taken care of by replacing the sycros and a few other wear items in the gearbox. the tech said it looked like "something" had come loose in there and the sync was just a hair off and high RPMs made it worse. Anyway, I've read something in here about a WOT box and the MGW gen 2 shifter making a huge difference. thoughts? Also, currently my clutch is holding strong BUT ... like most '10-'12 Shelbys, the clutch doesn't release till damn near on the floor! I drove the guys '13 that I bought my '11 from and that clutch is fantastic! release about 1/3rd the way down at most and has awesome pedal feel. I was just wondering if that could be fixed on my 11 with upgrading the master/slave cylinders of if it's more in-depth of a changeover than that. I'd be game for swapping out a significant portion of the clutch assy. to '13/'14 parts or aftermarket if interchangeable to get that release point/pedal feel.
As far as engine performance, I honestly think I'd be happy with the basic Fordracing pulley & tune package ... not totally against doing one of their TVS upgrades though. Keeping a factoryesque tune, meaning not just changing the timing/fuel curve and using actual flow data #'s to keep a safe tune is very important to me. She's a daily driver and while I'd like to open her up and let her breath a bit better, I'm not looking to run on the ragged edge of detonation. I'm lucky to find 90 octane ethanol free gas locally and every now and again strike gold with some 93 but that's not very often. She hasn't seen ethanol but a hand full of times or so since June of '12!
I know this is a lot so feel free to answer in part(s) or just PM me.
"Need" comes in the form of brakes, my last oil change check sheet at the dealer scored them in the red! I'm looking to upgrade to the Fordracing kit or something comparable to the '13/'14 GT500s for the increased stopping power and reduced fading when hot.
Itch comes in the form of wanting to open her up a little now that I've broken the 50K mile ceiling. Before I get too deep in any power adders, I want to address the slight shifting issue I still have after having Ford in the tranny under warranty. The main scratching from 1-2 was mostly taken care of by replacing the sycros and a few other wear items in the gearbox. the tech said it looked like "something" had come loose in there and the sync was just a hair off and high RPMs made it worse. Anyway, I've read something in here about a WOT box and the MGW gen 2 shifter making a huge difference. thoughts? Also, currently my clutch is holding strong BUT ... like most '10-'12 Shelbys, the clutch doesn't release till damn near on the floor! I drove the guys '13 that I bought my '11 from and that clutch is fantastic! release about 1/3rd the way down at most and has awesome pedal feel. I was just wondering if that could be fixed on my 11 with upgrading the master/slave cylinders of if it's more in-depth of a changeover than that. I'd be game for swapping out a significant portion of the clutch assy. to '13/'14 parts or aftermarket if interchangeable to get that release point/pedal feel.
As far as engine performance, I honestly think I'd be happy with the basic Fordracing pulley & tune package ... not totally against doing one of their TVS upgrades though. Keeping a factoryesque tune, meaning not just changing the timing/fuel curve and using actual flow data #'s to keep a safe tune is very important to me. She's a daily driver and while I'd like to open her up and let her breath a bit better, I'm not looking to run on the ragged edge of detonation. I'm lucky to find 90 octane ethanol free gas locally and every now and again strike gold with some 93 but that's not very often. She hasn't seen ethanol but a hand full of times or so since June of '12!
I know this is a lot so feel free to answer in part(s) or just PM me.