this is just another mustang vs camaro story but i was kinda thinking about racing my friends mustang.

he has a (1996 ford mustang V6 3.8L ALL stock) and i have my trusty camaro with my stock 305 tbi with the only mod being a removed cat and a flowmaster muffler.

who do you think will win?

 

you if your car runs well ive been in my buddys 3.8 mustang its a total dog

 

Do the rest of the freebees! Then race him! Do the Ultimate TBI mods (nice article in the TBI fourm sticky) Set the timing 4-6*BTDC (run 89-93 octane), open element costs $20-30.....My ex girl had a 1999 silver mustang, v6. Pretty slow. My Camaro pulled on it decently...You'll get 'em......

 

well i didint say i was going to race him but i was just thinking about it. he just got it and is very happy to have a car. so i might not race him because he is a realy good friend and dont want him to think that he has a total pile of S**t. not that i think it is one.

 

But if one day he talks crap he's got something waiting for him.

 

What's the point of racing V6 Mustangs??

 

I can say from experience, if they are anything like a 4 cyl, youd be better off racing a semi. These cars without the V8s are dogs. The newer 99+ V6s arent too bad at all, the older ones with anything but the 5.0 or 4.6 are a joke!

 

yea but even the newer v6 mustangs arnt all too great. i smokedo one with just my 305 tpi but then again i also beat a couple 5.0 mustangs. but you definitly dont have anything to worry about

 

the lb9 has much better heads and induction than the lo3, so that's apples to oranges really. your car is easily a mid/high 14second car. his car, if it's stock is a mid 16 second car. i beat v6 mustangs, too, but the guy still ran a mid 16 to my high 13.

 

I raced a friend of mine in his 98 3.8 v-6 5 speed in my 93 2.2 cavalier from a dead stop and i absolutely murdered him, he isn't the greatest driver in the world, but even with a good driver i think i could have taken that thing, for what it is, it's a complete dog, 140 hp for such a big car, anyways i think you'll have no problem taking him.

 

I wouldn't say they are that far apart.
The heads are better but the cam is only slightly bigger (excluding G92 cars). I wouldn't go as far as saying stock TPI is a better induction than TBI. They are both junk in a performance world. The LB9 just had slightly better stock internals but was horrendously plagued with the stock TPI. None the less the LB9 was faster when stock.

The LO3 should win this one.

 

Ya, we all know what kind of a torque monster lies beneath that 2.2.

 

Just like this huh:

 

Actually a good running l03 with a t-5 can pull off mid-15's

 

friends 3.8 stang with manual went 17's so a L03 has a dang good chance

 

oh, i know, but i was talking about the stang. if it's stock, it should run mid 16's. but the original posters car should be in the high/mid 14's.

 

sorry to hear, must be a crappy driver. my buddys 4-banger 5 spd mustang went mid 17's but he was drivin' the snot outta it!

 

yeah, his first trip to the track was a 20.xx something LOL with a 3.xx 60 foot!!!! LMAO he got excited and dumped the clutch and just spun the shizzle out of the tires

 

I currently own a 1993 $ banger, I would say a 17 is lucky. Mine feels like an 18+ second car and gets the snot driven out of it. I employ the same driving technique as with the 89, hitting gears at the redline, and the car just never pulls. I guess I cant really judge it as I only have the 89 and my 5.2 Grand Cherokee to compare!

But my dads 95 F150 went 17.1s and this thing is a LOT slower than that truck!

 

well, it wasn't exactly stock, but not enough was done to it to really make it fast, but it ran some mid-17's. my buddy is a damn good driver though. i race auto's so, i wouldn't come anywhere near what he did, but he drove the thing like he wanted to break it everytime he got in the car. the only thing that wasn't stock *i think* was it had a single flowmaster dumping in front of the rear. it has 4.10's in it now, but is still had the stock diff when he used to race it all the time (lives far away now, and i think he sold it before he got to run it with the 4.10's )

 

my friend's 01 v6 stang ran 16.0s or 16.1s (i can't remember exactly what it was) and it really isn't running right! it used to be able to spin the tire quite a bit but now it won't hardly spin...don't know what's up with it but it still amlost got into the 15s. and, that's an auto.

 

crap, where are my timeslips.........











ah! here they are, the auto/v6 00ish stang i ran at the track ran a 16.33@85mph. i ran a low 14 with no wot 2-3 shift and mad tire spin.

 

Believe me, Im not a fan of bragging, but I have been known to run decent times, and also nicknamed the hired gun! Now granted I have no timeslips to work with, and who knows if I would go 17s with it, Im not even sure, the car just feels like a total dog! I believe it though, anything will happen with the right conditions!

 

You Dirty Harry you Clint Eastwood you ...you.....youuuuuuu!!!!