Gas Monkey Ford GT
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Darthvader
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soroush
Ford Gt Owner
- Aug 8, 2007
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frankly Im surprised with all the hate regarding this car, there are far worse rebuilt GT's out there, anyone remember the white orange car?, and that car was not even wrecked. When all said and done I wouldnt buy it. but I dont think its blasphemy to put it on air ride or changing anything else, for a while when i first got on this site people couldnt wait to see how someone would change and modify their car. if everyones concern is the frame well then it is completely documented and for everyone to see. much better to buy this than some other rebuild GT that you never know what happened to it or how it was put back together. I would value this car at about 200K which is what he has in it.
I suspect I know why keyvan hates the car; they did change it from red to black
I suspect I know why keyvan hates the car; they did change it from red to black
twobjshelbys
GT Owner
frankly Im surprised with all the hate regarding this car, there are far worse rebuilt GT's out there, anyone remember the white orange car?, and that car was not even wrecked. When all said and done I wouldnt buy it. but I dont think its blasphemy to put it on air ride or changing anything else, for a while when i first got on this site people couldnt wait to see how someone would change and modify their car. if everyones concern is the frame well then it is completely documented and for everyone to see. much better to buy this than some other rebuild GT that you never know what happened to it or how it was put back together. I would value this car at about 200K which is what he has in it.
I suspect I know why keyvan hates the car; they did change it from red to black
+1.
I'm curious what the cam change was. We've not heard anything here about that. People change cams in other engines have a little base to do it from, but the engine in the GT is not high volume so the tuners really don't have a lot of volume. The Monkeys are not in to engineering, so the cam had to be from a production car. What one???
I'm curious because the Roush engine from my Cobra - a Windsor based 351 bored/stroked to 427 had a cam from a 1985 engine. It sounded great at idle. You could feel it in your chest.
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soroush
Ford Gt Owner
- Aug 8, 2007
- 5,256
people have been changing cams in ford gt's for a while now, I have a custom ground comp cam in mine with higher lift and duration, car picked up 80 hp of course mine is also fully built though; other people that i can think of off the top of my head with different cams are mullet, peaks texas mile car, marks texas mile car, Ed sims, the crazy guy in florida and im sure there are many others....
soroush
Ford Gt Owner
- Aug 8, 2007
- 5,256
soroush
Ford Gt Owner
- Aug 8, 2007
- 5,256
fjpikul
GT Owner
soroush
Ford Gt Owner
- Aug 8, 2007
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MTV8
GT Owner
bonehead
GT Owner
For what this is, i.e. cruiser, car show queen, it's great. Probably helps that it's a no-stripe black which is probably my favorite paint scheme.
It's never going to see any track time. With the appreciation in value, 99% of the remaining, non-bagged, cars will never see the track either. Purists need to get over it. It's a wrecked car that got a new life, and personally, I like it.
[video=youtube;2w6Qcdc_aog]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w6Qcdc_aog[/video]
It's never going to see any track time. With the appreciation in value, 99% of the remaining, non-bagged, cars will never see the track either. Purists need to get over it. It's a wrecked car that got a new life, and personally, I like it.
[video=youtube;2w6Qcdc_aog]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w6Qcdc_aog[/video]
FENZO
GT Owner
I can already hear the muffled pops from heads exploding when the first NGT gets wrecked/repaired.
Aluminum, carbon, and bags.. oh my!
Based on the video above, I'd drive the sh!t out of that car.
Aluminum, carbon, and bags.. oh my!
Based on the video above, I'd drive the sh!t out of that car.
dr914
GT Owner
the Monkey car with 4000 some miles and original paint, was a fairly easy rebuild to bring it back to stock configuration, and save another one of the marque. The point we "purists" are making here is with the very limited production of the GT and the fact that is a piece of Ford history never to occur again, why heavily modify and virtually ruin so rare a car? If they had made 100,000 of them so what, but this very special car deserves honor not horror
- Apr 6, 2014
- 1,093
Car looks great dropped but not with air ride bc how I'm sure it changes its high speed handling.
Speaking of purist...at this weekends Cars and Coffee, a guy with his F40 asked me , " why would you ever twin turbo your GT40"?
I wanted to say... Hmmmm. Your car is TT!!!
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Speaking of purist...at this weekends Cars and Coffee, a guy with his F40 asked me , " why would you ever twin turbo your GT40"?
I wanted to say... Hmmmm. Your car is TT!!!
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bonehead
GT Owner
Same can be said for a lot of 'questionable' mods that I've seen in numerous other cars. Have you been to a Rally? The GMGT is pretty tame compared to some of the Frankensteins that are on this forum. I don't mean that in a derogatory way, but just to highlight the fact that people are accepting of a lot more of fellow forum members.