Find 8-10 Easy Horsepower For Your Ford Mustang
If you’re looking to find 8-10 easy horsepower for your Ford Mustang, look no further than the affordable Brentech 70 mm throttle body designed to fit 1986-93 Fox-body Ford Mustangs with the venerable 5.0 Liter engine. Amazingly, BrothersPerformance.com sells this unit for right around $129.00 and the kit includes all the gaskets and hardware for a simple and quick install!
Airflow is critical to horsepower, and the stock 60 mm throttle body can only take you so far. Once you’ve added a cold-air intake, improved intake and exhaust headers, the stock throttle body will become a restriction, preventing your engine from reaching its potential. There are many options for throttle bodies, but none offer the performance, quality, and affordability of the Brentech 70mm throttle body kit.
Not some cheap off-short unit that is likely to fail over time, Brentech throttle bodies are 100-percent engineered and manufactured right here in America from top-grade 356 aluminum castings, which are then CNC-machined to a perfect finish. They also feature die-stamped throttle linkages, double-sealed bearings, and O-ringed throttle shafts. This equals smooth throttle actuation, durability, and great performance, not to mention perfect fitment and more horsepower and torque to the wheels.
How much power? We wanted to find out, so our Brothers Performance team recently installed and tested one on a 1990 5.0 LX Mustang. The high-mileage short-block was equipped with a Ford Racing Performance Parts Cobra intake, Air Flow Research (AFR) 165 Renegade heads, a .550-inch lift camshaft from Comp Cams, BBK long-tube headers and Magnaflow mufflers.
The LX spun the rollers on our Dynojet to a peak of 325 rwhp for a gain of 8 horsepower and 350 lb-ft of torque for a gain of 8 kb-ft. over the stock TB, but we saw higher gains below the peak. Not bad for about $129.00 and 30 minutes of our time.
