Are are mods to SSP sacrilege

[ABN2060]

This is my take on this. As long as the upgrades appear stock you are good to go. For example, upgrading from drum to rear disk brakes is acceptable as well as tastfull engine mods. ie. installing GT-40 heads because they appear stock. You see where I'm going with this? Now, if your talking about ripping out the interior to make it a race car, then someone here will shoot you.

[ssp91ssp]

NOOOOO Ricky Race Cars .....
And Yes , The more original ... The better .

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[NoDrama43]

ya'll are doing a good job on this one so I think I will sit this one out....

[FlyinTiger]

IMO, as long as you keep the car on the road, most everything can be put back to stock later. Save your original parts for a future owner. And as previously mentioned, hidden mods are just that. More fun, without drawing attention.

[Texaspony87]

Why are there so few people interested in preserving these cars for what they were and keeping that way? I would like to know. To me, as I have said before, hot rod cars are a whole different topic from what this site was created for.

[MOstang]

Originally Posted by Texaspony87

Why are there so few people interested in preserving these cars for what they were and keeping that way? I would like to know.

Hi Joe - Looking forward to seeing you at a car show this season. I'm not sure if your question above is directed towards the originator of this post and/or those of us who replied. If inclusive of those who replied, I don't interpret any of us are suggesting that hot rodding an SSP is the way to go.

As a for instance we all know the brakes are a concern if you do much driving of these Mustangs. While I haven't done so myself I could see someone wanting to improve the safety of the vehicle by addressing the brakes (in what would likely be a modification from original spec). Even with the limited driving (mostly to/from shows) I do with my SSP's, this thought has crossed my mind. With the nut-jobs driving (seems they are all on road at same time when an SSP or classic car is driving) it can be scary out there even for us defensive drivers.

[mustangretriever]

Originally Posted by Texaspony87

Why are there so few people interested in preserving these cars for what they were and keeping that way? I would like to know. To me, as I have said before, hot rod cars are a whole different topic from what this site was created for.

I agree. Keep it as stock as possible. There are tons of Fox body Mustangs out there available for mods. If you already have a well running stock original SSP why screw it up? But as I've said for a long time, the more SSP's that are modified it just makes my 100% stock SSP appreciate in value just a little more. :-)

[ajstoys63]

Yes the brakes are an issue with me also... I am putting as much back to stock as I can however I would like to put the black rims and rear disc brakes on her even though the black rims were not on the '91. I like them!!! I still want everything stock appearing. My car doesn't really stand out like most of your beautiful marked units... But the black 10 holes look sharp on the black SSP. I have been buying all of the little parts and next is a complete strip and re-paint.

[NoDrama43]

ok.....I will weigh in......yeh i know it didn't last long.

I think Joe asks a very pertinent question here. I am sometimes amazed at the stuff people want to do to these cars. Not citing anyones specific post here but brakes are a perfect example.

These cars were put in service and driven 130 MPH every day. The factory brakes were fine then and they are fine now as long as you drive the car with some sort of common sense. Can we make the brakes better? sure we can. Hell I can make the brakes better on the GT500 but why would I?

I see no valid reason to feel the need to have rear disc brakes on an SSP car. Granted the brakes are not nearly as good as anything built within the past 5 years but in reality how many of us are driving these cars aggressively every day. Very few. Having rear disc brakes on a fox body mustang will NEVER look stock to anyone that knows how the cars were built. If you track your car then yes I can understand the need for brakes as standard fox brakes suck on a road track. But why beat an SSP on a race track anyway? I know some do and repectfully I will always 100% disagree with that practice. It's your stuff though so we can just agree to disagree.

Boring the engine 30 over on a 200k motor is perfectly fine IMO. If the stuff is worn out it needs to be fixed. Just don't try to convince me it needs a bigger cam, and then bigger injectors, after market headers etc.

My response to mods is if it is anything other than a stock NOS part or a stock replacement part...it ain't stock. Everyone can do what they want with their own car and I am not picking on anyone in particular. i think this site and our members all have a pretty good idea what we believe in when it comes to the cars. That is why we don't have any members with twin turbo FHP cars.

Given the fact there were milions of fox body non SSP cars built I will always sugest that you buy one of them if you want to "enhance" the vehicles performance qualities.