Why the Fox Body Mustang is the GOAT of Drag Racing

[@ThatDudeinBlue]

What drag car are you building for reliability first?

[@codymckeever9820]

Probably something LS based

[@Mp-jw1qg]

2023 m240i x drive, built gearbox, 7275, carbon driveline, axles and 4 drag radials. turned down to 750awhp daily, 950awhp at the track. ive been driving it all over california, vegas, and am driving it across the country to FL2K this week. ill beat the crap out of it, turn it up to 1000+ awhp on a factory sealed block, and probably drive back to california just fine. maybe 65k into this project, including the car. it has about 15k miles of abuse with this setup in the last 4 months alone and still gets 36mpg at 75mph in eco mode on e85.

[@1tuffzx10]

I'll say fox body but I'm going built 427 with a procharger. Just my opinion

[@dragonslayer6000]

I want to coyote swap a 80s/90s cougar or thunderbird

[@SpecificationR]

Subaru EJ 1000% nothing beats 25k engine build to make 350whp

[@J-Whit]

Thanks for another great time! Glad you liked it!

[@pob_car]

Another fox but with a ford barra to put against the atlas 👀

[@J-Whit]

@@pob_car oof. Cleet level money required there lol

[@uknterror508]

With a face plated gearset, you still need to let off the gas between shifts correct? I see some people clutch still. Killer build man!

[@jonahquintanilla4589]

Awesome build ! 👍🏽

[@J-Whit]

@uknterror508 yes you can rev match and not clutch at all and it will fall in. There is a learning curve. Ironically since this video the car now has a built th400 lol

[@subie25i30]

That has to feel satisfying, sitting at your house and you can hear your car from far away ripping. 😎🤘🔥

[@scottchan49]

the peace of mind knowing its not being stolen is also a plus! 😂

[@asmith8904]

Foxes are my favorite cars! Had mine for 32 years and still get excited every timemi get in it. Mines a highy modified Street Car that runs 9.4s at 146MPH with 17lbs of boost on a 306 ! No car sounds as good as a FOX ! 🦊

[@casey360360]

I'm a service tech at Tesla. I get to play with all the fast shit, Model X and S Plaid, Model 3 performance, engineering cars with horsepower numbers that I'd be violating my NDA even hinting at. 0-60 in 3 seconds has become underwhelming for me. I would still laugh manically and smile ear-to-ear in this foxbody. NOTHING can beat how visceral cars like this really are, the exhaust, the dog box, the heat, the fumes, everything about them is apart of the experience that EV's seriously just don't have.

[@casey360360]

@@monster1379 Holy shit dude, you’re the type of dumbass that’ll argue literally anything, aren’t you?

[@DBFIU]

​@@monster1379 Wrong "buddy"

[@trevor6814]

You service the test vehicles/prototypes?! What did you have to do yo get that job?

[@casey360360]

@@trevor6814 12 years as an automotive technician, an AAS in automotive technology, and a shit ton of luck.

[@stroupperformance9384]

Definitely one of the best platforms for all kinds of motorsports. Sweet and simple build!

[@jonahquintanilla4589]

That screaming V8 would put a smile on my face everytime😎 so good!

[@Dot-Ee]

Bro Foxbody’s are so damn nice 😭 Guy has a Notch near me and won’t budge on selling it. Been sitting for years

[@joebroart]

What city do you live in? That might be me 😂😂

[@Dot-Ee]

@@joebroart Lmao I’m in the New Orleans area. I want the damn thing so bad

[@joebroart]

@@Dot-Ee I'm in the Miami area but I'm selling mines pretty soon, good luck with that brotha

[@Dot-Ee]

@@joebroart appreciate that man! also question, if you don’t mind of course, can I ask how much you’re asking for it?

[@cwillar1]

Notchbacks are underrated

[@gesprite8971]

Something about a fox body is just so petite yet monstrous at the same time😂. Great video as always and an absolute beut of a car.

[@DirtySk8RatStaney]

Four eyed fox is one of my dream cars….

[@damianlindsey6177]

Great cars. Took an 86 4 cylinder coupe and moved all of my good svo mustang parts over to it to build what ford should've to begin with. Did just a few minor upgrades but youd have thought ford built an svo coupe if you seen mine lol

[@sfielding10001]

I had one that was pushrod 4.6 sbf swapped. It was very cool

[@aw294man]

4 eyed over aero nose all day

[@jeremiahhamilton1748]

I've built no less than 6 of these, to think they are "classics" now! Nice to see they still hold their own out there !

[@asKINGaboveyou]

This thing is BEAUTIFUL. One of my dream builds.

[@MemelordJord]

A coyote swapped foxbody is my dream drag car

[@Rigby606]

I have never clicked so fast

[@kevinberry5793]

Nice Sunday cruiser. I also love the flinch at each shift.

[@TGunner23]

That’s a badass car! Jonathon just got a new subscriber! 😊

[@yaboykris2118]

This is literally the same build I’m doing right now. But I’m putting a gen 3 aluminator short block with gen 2 heads. Oh. And mine is a 89 GT and I’m putting a 6R80 in it.

[@JimS870]

Looks like the Gen 2 Coyote is the best version of the Coyote. I'm shocked it's handling 1000 HP with just oil pump gears changed lol

[@thatguy_bern]

"time to spin!!" Lol i love it 😁

[@jerrybockes4769]

Fox body is my favorite mustang

[@MorbidThrasher666]

Foxes are the best and tons of fun,ive had 3. The aftermarket and possibilities are endless.

[@2JZLS]

I’d bring a 1991 Supra Turbo to Joel Grannas and get a IRS 9”, Faceplated T56, and their 3000hp turn-key billet 2jz 💀

[@Faith.in.His.Grace.]

I've always been more of a Chevy guy, but I've always secretly wanted a Fox Mustang. Light weight with a huge engine bay, it's very hard to hate on it until it gaps your car

[@connoisseuroftigolbitts]

That engine is just amazing pushing numbers like this with so little done to the longblock. ✅

[@worldssickestmedia2713]

Fox chassis cars are the cheapest, easiest, quickest way to go drag racing. Small car+ Short wheelbase+triangulated 4 link rear+ strut front suspension= an almost perfect starting point for drag racing. But cheapest, easiest, quickest doesn't always equate to the best. I've owned 3 Fox Mustangs. They're great. But if I had to the money to build any car I wanted. I would keep and modify any mustang to remain a touring vehicle that goes left and right and could tackle a mountain road. And there is about 5 other cars I would choose to drag race before a mustang.

[@Billy_Built]

Literally hit the nail on the head with opening " perfect drag car" description 😅

[@francistrombley8813]

Those shifts sound WILD

[@fatherfirefighter7751]

Coyote swaps have been the new termi swap for years now.

[@cookncrack5334]

THE BLACK ONES COOLER LOOKING

[@gordydexter2615]

Great video. So cool that it is so light in weight and lays down 1000 RWH!!! It sounds good and looks great in that blue!!!! I would like to drive it also!!! Thanks for sharing!!! 👍👊💪🇺🇸🐎

[@racingforthecure]

I have owned countless cars, but a Ford has one of the exhaust tunes. My SRT 8’s sound good but damn does that sound good

[@TheMrhoneycutt]

Knew who it was as soon as I saw the Thumbnail! Please do the Trailblazer!

[@J-Whit]

He already did lol

[@rj5485]

Bro, hearing turbo noises on coyote is wild!!! ❤

[@SpecificationR]

Fox bodies and their cowl hoods. Even with nothing under the cowl.

[@faunastation5147]

Brutal machine

[@flyingphoenix113]

Personally, I'm not a fan of Coyote swaps. I much prefer the 7.3 Godzilla or just a classic Windsor/Cleveland. I'm happy to trade the lack of revs for the responsiveness/low-end torque and compactness of the larger displacement pushrod engines.

[@Sliceandpoke]

The future is scary huh

[@yeanah2571]

It's preference, really. 7.3s will become much more popular once they start hitting junkyards.

[@Sliceandpoke]

@@yeanah2571 the 7.3 will be much more difficult to come by even years from now. The coyote has been in so many trucks and mustangs generations

[@TheQuestionableGarage]

The Godzilla isn’t quite there in aftermarket support, and is only marginally easier to install than a coyote.

[@JDGeorge240sx]

@@Sliceandpoke i dunno, work trucks are commonly totaled out on the regular

[@45kph]

Light weight, lots aftermarket parts for even more weight reduction, many of engine and combination to choose from.

[@jaydensdream714]

Hey i get it. You push in the clutch then lift gas then shift then release clutch and push accelerator. Just like you were taught. Forget the clutch once your moving forward. Time a slight toe lift of accelerator as your shifting. With practice no crunch and standard gear boxes are not used on drag same as street. You wanna trap in 4th gear around 7500rpm. Shift like i say and .6 seconds will come off your 1320 times...

[@HarusukiVT]

When I saw "stock motor" in the thumbnail I was thinking push rod 5.0 and was thinking "HOW?!" XD

[@ToastyAF420]

I really want you to do one of these with any of cleetus' cars

[@marcasswellbmd6922]

Foxbody's are so light.. They are perfect for Coyote swaps without the boost. I get that is a drag car and why they T56'ed it.. But something like that needs to be out on the streets.. I would have done a smoother trans for street use myself.. But I don't really race so I get why he did what he did using the T56...

[@J-Whit]

Well it does now have a built th400. This was one of the last cruises it made being a manual.

[@mgreflection]

Bitchin car J, love the color..

[@maya00795]

Awesome dude 😊............... Greetings from india🇮🇳🤠🤠🤩🤩🙌🤘🏻

[@Weather_Nerd]

This was an experience watching, would love to drive it lol

[@williamcapistrano2822]

i would love to see a 1JZ in this

[@Notasheepleandneverwillbe]

If I was going to have any Mustang it would have to be an 80s Fox body . Call me crazy but I would rather have that than a 67 fastback .

[@Chrisstoryfoto]

Hey I know that guy! 😂😂😂

[@dragonslayer6000]

Wow what mad rips

[@devonclaycomb9767]

Works, until it don't lol. 1 of the 3 Timing chains, oil pump, I mean yeah "easy" power. But the cost

[@boostin4life906]

So oem piston and rods? Got a 76/78 to put on mine gen 2 has opg and sc done!

[@J-Whit]

Completely stock long block except oil pump gears

[@SasquatchS550]

Stock motor had me going for a second. Ain't no way a little stock block pushrod 302 making a 1000😂

[@J-Whit]

Gen 2 motors will surprise you. Other than oil pump gears, the long block is stock. It made 840whp on 14psi and we've turned 20psi at the track which is well over 1000whp

[@SasquatchS550]

@@J-Whit I saw Foxbody so my first thought was the stock fox 302 not a coyote lol. I know the coyotes are capable of crazy numbers

[@J-Whit]

@SasquatchS550 oh ok haha. Yea stock block 302 would become 2 4 cylinder engines before making those numbers lol

[@marks93cobra]

I'm just glad it doesn't have an LS in it.

[@id2349]

Awesome

[@JoeHamilton-j6y]

I had 2 foxbody mustangs but both totalled out my rear bumper was a bullseye target.

[@jordanhillis1315]

David how were the brakes? Been building a racecar with strange brakes and I want to street it occasionally

[@KSwapTheWorld69]

Such Steez!

[@vigilantcustoms]

Damn where TF where you driving at the beginning of this video an off road mountain trail?? And that tranny sounds nuts!

[@infadelakainf]

3lbs and gets 600hp!!!!!😮😮😮😮😮

[@stanger8259]

I really like he’s black car

[@white_stang007]

You should get a 2024 mustang to replaced your totaled car and get the new roush supercharger I wanna see the process of it. I want the new blower but not the new mustang

[@jimmymccormick142]

Awesome car l love the coyote in the Fox body its truly insane Ford power forever baby a real Chevy and dodge killer the best never rest they just keep getting better has a Ford blu by you later

[@DJ_Driven]

What yr is the car?

[@Dbomb81]

This Fox Body or the DSE-Z Camaro?

[@lemoin1212]

1:30 that thing sounds like it’s got rabies… I love it

[@elmeatopopsicle3309]

I'd like to see a 7mgte car

[@tpumpiscmibicv]

They’re all at home getting their headgaskets replaced , or used as door stoppers when people get fed up with them and replace them with a 2jz lol

[@elmeatopopsicle3309]

@@tpumpiscmibicv in my best Greta thunberg voice.... How dare you!!!

[@Boxerfox714]

Fox body is the car I love to hate, the stock 302 is enough to have fun in it when modified and not done properly the 302 becomes rather irritating and will leave you stranded if you guys are looking into getting to the platform I would recommend getting rid of all EGR stuff and excessive vacuum trees. This will make the car easier to work on unless you are going full-on cyote build.

[@TheMikeguy7776]

After being in an and driving a Tesla plaid I’m not impressed but numbers but I know how fun unruly cars are. My 12 second foxbody is as more fun than that electric rocket

[@elppedro77]

Coyotes are great, if you can afford them. For me, I will stick with the venerable pushrod engines.

[@905cavillac2]

Street cah!

[@RacerX.]

lol thought it was a reupload when he mentioned the text

[@kavinskysmith4094]

Well That's Misleading, your thumbnail says a 1000 horsepower stock when its anything but stock if its got a motorfrom a 2015 mustang in it like that, as the original 302's need a specific reinforcement in the block to take over 400 or it will literally rattle itself apart not to mention the cost of modifying the car, and reengineering everything to work right as the foxbody was a good rebirth and return to what made the mustang great, but they have their limits and are not the car to use for drag specials, given they might get wrecked like go for one of the new age ones, those are so cheap and plentiful that most dont care if they get wrecked, and the cobra independent R rear suspension I think is still avalable for them as I remember matt farah having to basically retrofit and reengineer that to fit on his CHP fox body back in the day but for a modern terminator, that might be flat out bolt on and good for modding

[@dragonslayer6000]

So faceplating a t56 is more cost effe tive than a dog box? Or just ezsier to drive

[@brianstill8954]

More streetable. Doesn't require as much maintenance.

[@dragonslayer6000]

@brianstill8954 man thank you, saved me a lot of headaches

[@jmhellison]

A bone stock coyote can handle 1000hp??😮😮😮

[@averycoolturtle]

Gen 2 and up Coyotes yeah

[@pain.497]

Foxbodys are the Miata of Stangs

[@willsmith8586]

You don't have to do the Cobra. You could do all this to any of the other fox's

[@johnkrstyen]

3lbs of boost? That is a light spring in the waste gate

[@J-Whit]

Its on co2 control. So we can turn it up to 30psi if we want lol. I just had the co2 off for the street because its way too sletchy lol

[@minibikemadman]

you don't hear the turbo cause it's on 3lbs my guess for the shoot

[@sneezinhatch]

A terminator cobra is HP limited

[@slickrick2]

Transmission should not be clinking like that.. I had a t56 magnum XL and it didn’t do that

[@darrylbrooks851]

👏👏

[@TheQuestionableGarage]

There isn’t much room left for a turbo after he put the coyote in it.

[@mike4fo]

There is no reliable drag car lol but there fun

[@michaelmiller9870]

👍👍

[@GAGEDADY]

Great car but he made it an automatic now to go faster. So it’s not as cool to me now.

[@NkateDogg]

Wow

[@CoyoteCrimeLord]

No transmission should ever have to shift like that. That car doesn’t make enough power to need a transmission that extreme. No street car should ever need that either.

[@melvinbrumski1446]

It’s like you didn’t even watch the video. Amazing.

[@andreas325vitalie]

1000HP?

[@J-Whit]

Made 840whp on 14psi, but we have ran it on 20psi which is well north of 1000hp.

[@ColAngus]

93 Cobras are some of the most rare and collectible Foxes.....just take a regular Fox and add the Cobra body kit instead...like why butcher a real Cobra...not that its not an awesome build.....still....

[@jack-k6z7n]

NOT STREET LEGAL

[@J-Whit]

1000 miles on sick week between florida and georgia would disagree.

[@jack-k6z7n]

@@J-Whit ZERO exhaust system NO MUFFLERS NOR CATS FAILS SMOG PLUS ON A MUSTANG THE PIPES RUN OUT THE BACK OF THE CAR NOT OUT THE FRONT FENDER DUH.

[@J-Whit]

@@jack-k6z7n well luckily in Florida, we dont have inspections, so it is in fact, street legal.

[@jack-k6z7n]

@@J-Whit NOT IN NYC

[@J-Whit]

@@jack-k6z7none of many reasons i dont live there lol

[@destroyall24]

Fuck yea

[@_GG21_]

Is the turbo too big for the power it makes?

[@devonclaycomb9767]

LS is still KING 🤴 🎉

[@chadkent1241]

No GM on the planet has: run 5.88 @ 256mph with a prepped oe cast block, heads, oe crank and nearly all oe timing components. 4.6 4V Ford ✅️ 7s factory sealed Coyote ✅️ Made 2930 whp after winning OVERALL Sick Week, Tx2k24, Import vs Domestic with a prepped oe cast block, heads and crank setting the world record for any radial drag and drive event 6.26 @ 227mph. Coyote ✅️ Or run 300.4 mph in a standing mile on the oe cast block and heads that came in the stock vehicle. 5.4L TT Ford GT And lastly, the single year The Engine Masters Challenge allowed OHC, The Modular Fords took a clean 1,2,3 sweep of the podium and 4th was the first LS. The LS in only king in the delusional minds of Ford haters and the willfully ignorant.

[@ALYXTANKBACKPACK]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@chadkent1241Ford is king of micro-records and half truths lol but Ford guys are not gonna fact-check any of this

[@johnkrstyen]

​@@chadkent1241 Ls is still cheaper entry............for now.

[@Mrnappy13]

I've never been a fan of a drag setups. I understand the function of it....they just mess up the look of the cars imo

[@wildnfree223]

Legit .... He barely gets into the boost

[@Bullitt1768]

7th

[@crcgarage1003]

First

[@carllindgren7130]

:)

[@lowlifeslides9918]

Please help us bring back real roots drifting and not this neon ricer shit 💀

[@beachboardfan9544]

The fox body isnt special, its just cheap because its ugly compared to most other mustang generations. 80s plastic fantastic made for inexpensive cars that no one cared about cutting up to race.

[@ThatGuyAJ]

Boring, Same old'ish every episode. So mundane...yawn...unsubscribe

[@carsaregood911]

Ok

[@juggernautjim7719]

Byeeeee