So a year later and this thread is still active...gotta love car guys/gals...the dialog is eternal. Not really cheap power but acceleration gain with 4.10s on the street is fine...I still think 3.73s for this car on the street and on a wide variety of road courses is ideal (unless you have the time and energy to swap track-to-track). The strip is a different story depending on how you are running and what else you have on the car.
I've been able to pass plenty of people just having to do a 3-2 shift and not unsettling the car deep into a brake zone where they are doing a 4-3-2 shift (checkout Have Mustang, Must Pass video on my page or go
here for an example).
These cars are a pain to RPM match compared to other cars so having to do a double shift under hard braking while changing your angle of attack is not w/o is troubles. I watched the Mustang Challenge race at Mid-O a couple weeks ago and quarter of the field had trouble matching revs coming down the back straight into the T4 braking zone toward China beach (btw, that Andrew Cadell is the real deal...I timed his laps...he matched laps to a 10th of a second lap after lap even in traffic!)
BTW I am still running the stock 3.55s with a lightweight flywheel in my '05, and since my last post:
I've done equal time (sub 2:00) to my buddy in his GT3 on a track I had never driven before;
Finished second (my first podium!) with 4th fastest lap in a field of 25 on the course I referred to a year ago (the guys that had faster laps than I did were a the 2008 AI Rookie of the Year and future NASA AI Champ, the 2008 CMC Champ and the 2007 CMC Champ)
In both cases I ran the entire session in 3rd gear..just to prove a point
