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We Prepare The Fram Airhog For Its New Owner By Tuning Up The Engine And Suspension And Flogging It Harder On The Road Course.

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Wow, if Fram's AirHog Mustang weren't a car, we'd almost feel sorry for it. It's been a brutal few months for the Competition Orange Mach 1, as we've beaten it on the dragstrip and road course multiple times and logged a couple thousand miles on the HOT ROD Power Tour, where the giveaway car served glorified rental-car duty for the HOTROD.com editorial team. Since we purchased it from Galpin Ford in late March, we've rolled up nearly 4,800 miles, about 500 of which are bogus due to a speedo error we didn't correct until near the end of the Tour (more about that later), and never have a few weeks have gone by without a major modification to the car.

The Mach 1 was barely a week old before we tore the complete exhaust off and replaced it with a set of BBK long-tube headers, a BBK off-road X-pipe, and a Magnaflow stainless steel after-cat exhaust system that produced an extra 30 rear-wheel horsepower in conjunction with a Fram AirHog air filter, a larger BBK throttle-body, and BBK underdrive pulleys. Within weeks of that, we'd also swapped the stock 3.55:1 gears for 4.30s, the stock coils in favor of a set of Vogtland lowering springs, and the retro-inspired Magnum 500 look-alike wheels for more modern-looking 10th Anniversary Mustang Cobra wheels. We replaced the wasted stock rubber with wider and stickier Yokohama AVS ES100 radials too.


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