Racing the GT - is it capable ?

[GT@50]

The last thing I need on the track is more HP. I haven't figured out how to catch the car when it goes, Suspension and brakes are where I'd put my $$$. Brakes are done! and stop GREAT!

 

[PeteK]

I would much rather take my 911 on the track than my 2006 Ford GT.

Ditto, even though mine is a 1973. You can buy practically any part for 50 year old Porsches, even if you crunch every panel on the body.

 

[Forfer8]

The last thing I need on the track is more HP. I haven't figured out how to catch the car when it goes, Suspension and brakes are where I'd put my $$$. Brakes are done! and stop GREAT!

“catch the car” in what sense ? On or off track ? At what speeds ? I have heard many stories about this. Many cars I looked at had been crashed in this way. Now I wonder if this is a FGT character or just high power unassisted behaviour?

 

[fjpikul]

The car has built in oversteer. Let off the gas in a turn and the back end will break loose and you will spin. All mid and rear engine cars exhibit this. Electronic nannies help eliminate this in newer cars (ie new FGT).

 

[GT@50]

I'm spinning out because I get on it too hard, too soon out of the corner. It's amazing how far you'll slide on grass at 40MPH

 

[twobjshelbys]

Out of curiosity. Are there any known FGT mods easily done by owners (to pick up the groceries more quickly ) ?

Short throw shifter is a piece of cake.

If you have advanced mechanical skills, lots of patience and tools, including a press, you could do the pulley swap. You have to remove the supercharger, being extremely careful to not drop the belt, and not bend the fragile metal gasket, but the pulley replacement requires you to remove the "snout" and press the old pulley off and push on the new one. It may or may not involve swapping an idler pulley too.

Replacing the muffler will add some sound. Lots of choices here, use search. Not too hard but some instructions say to remove the clamshell which I did but there is another way, again, use search.