4th Gen Mustang

[hanoverphist]

Depends how responsible this 16 year old is... a 16 year old who grew up around cars and a hot rodding father and who chooses to drive and work on an older car because he's into cars and not into impressing people... is someone who respects the car and will be less likely to get into a wreck than ...

...a 16 year old spoiled brat who knows nothing about cars other than "it's shinier and faster than everyone else's because it's a 2011" and just got tossed the keys to a any random $40,000 car so he could be the cool kid on the block.

ed zachary. a good friend in HS grew up helping his dad build hot rods, he had a monte carlo as a first car, 65 chevy 2 nova as his second. first thing they did was replace the straight 6 with the 400sb out of the monte carlo. that was his first rebuild too. meanwhile, there was a kid that had his parents donate all the parts for their sons 55 bel air to the auto shop, got it built up and toasted the engine showing off the first day it started. dumbass.

i agree about the 302 part tho, easy to work on and almost infinite parts, help, advice and after market for them makes it an easy learner.

 

[slag]

plugs on my 97 f150 aren't fun (5.4 liter). nearly impossible if you dont lift up the fuel rail and then you might have to replace the injector O rings. Bad design how they did the plugs, cops, and fuel rail all right there on top of each other.

 

[PricklyPete]

It's settled then, 94-95 GT. 😀

LOL...well at least that will be my recommendation to him. 🙂

 

[JulesMaximus]

That is not true for the 5.0 cars. Not sure what the torque was on the 4.6 so thay may have problems as well.
The 5speed was fine for most driving but a lot of hard driving or adding on performance parts would kill it. GM used the T5 in the F-bodies but did not use one in the 350 (5.7) only the 305 (5.0). The 350 made to much power at default so only auto for them.

I never had any trouble with mine and I owned 2 of them. I modded the second one mildly and drove it hard to almost 100k miles and never had any trouble with it. Went through one clutch and throwout bearing but that was it. I upgraded to a heavy duty clutch when the first one started to go.

I've heard tons of complaints about the autos though.

 

[PricklyPete]

I've heard tons of complaints about the autos though.

Reading through comments on the internet, this seems consistent with what I've seen.