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Well I finally got the beast, I picked it up on Wed and than took thursday off to break it in on mountain roads. The car looks better in person than pictures or movie clips from the internet first off. Only haveing 360 miles on it now (10.8 when picked up at dealer) it is still tight but lots of power. Not scary power but it runs very well. 50 more HP or minus 300 pounds lighter would help. Easy to get 50 more HP. So the road trip... car handles great and I pushed hard on some sharp turns that the sign said 35 and I was clipping along around 65... in fact a little to hard once the ass end started a slight kick out but no fault of the car just hammering it to much.. that scared me so I took it easy for about 20 minutes till I felt cockey again
Shifter don't know why anyone would change it... very short shifts and feels great. Shaker 1000 will pound and if you put some heavy bass line music you can feel it in the chest. Tach is kinda of hard to see at the redline area because of the steering wheel but no big deal. Seats great, would have liked a overhead homelink system for opening the garage door but have the clip on for the visor. Rims... hard to clean and for the first X miles brakes put out allot of brake dust compare to some vehicles I have owned. Speaking of brakes are excellent. Can't really tell you more than what you have all read in magazines or other posts. Somethings would be nice to change but just me being anal... not happy about water on motor when washing it but working on that issue with an enginerr here at work. Clutch is taking some use to ... I seem to make it chatter when taking off from a dead stop. I am guessing just need more time with it Vs my 03 focus clutch. One think I really notice is heat in the interior of the car. Being hot out and having the windows down the 5.4 liter puts out some heat....and you will feel it inside. But the switch that says AC will also fix that.
So really nothing bad about the car, just a couple of things I would change but what you feel about it might be 100% different. Everyone will have a different opinion.
Instead of posting pictures on the VBpic Gallery (painfull with big pictures) I have wrote a simple website of it. You will see the pictures from start to current as I do updates I will also update my site. Monday getting glass tinted and rocker panels removed for paint
Later
http://www.flairphoto.com/gt500.htm
So really nothing bad about the car, just a couple of things I would change but what you feel about it might be 100% different. Everyone will have a different opinion.
Instead of posting pictures on the VBpic Gallery (painfull with big pictures) I have wrote a simple website of it. You will see the pictures from start to current as I do updates I will also update my site. Monday getting glass tinted and rocker panels removed for paint
Later
http://www.flairphoto.com/gt500.htm