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If you're like most muscle car enthusiasts you are constantly trying to squeeze more power from your car's engine. If that car has a manual transmission, then there will probably come a time when your engine's power output exceeds the clamping force provided by the OEM clutch. The clutch is the vital linkage between your engine and the transmission and if it is not properly matched with your engines power output level, don't expect it to last very long.
Ford's latest version of the wildly popular Mustang gets its nostalgic styling cues from the famous Mustang body lines of decades ago. Something that the factory never added back to this retro pony car is the sequential tail lights, but with a couple dollars and a little bit of time, this is easily fixed. Follow along with Chris (aka CelticNut), one of Muscle Car Blogs members as he installs Sequential Taillights in his Grabber Orange 07 Ford Mustang GT.
When you're looking for more performance out of your late model muscle car you can spend your time and a lot of your hard earned dollars for a few more horses under the hood. Most bolt-on mods are simply trying to increase the engine's air-flow capacity and efficiency, usually resulting in marginal gains. But what if you have already done all of that? What's next? A super charger? Nitrous? How about freeing up some of the horsepower that is already there, but being consumed by your car's accessories driveline?
With fuel economy being first and foremost on the minds of most Americans, it's easy to be caught up in the bolt-on modifications that claim to get better fuel mileage. When we added the Fitch Fuel Catalyst to Muscle Car Blog's
LS1 motors have a bad habbit of "jumping" the accessory belt off of the OEM belt tensioner during hard downshifts or acceleration. This is typically caused by dynamic tensioner spring fatigue. What can you do about it? Katech has the answer with their Gen III F-Car Adjustable Belt Tensioner.