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Find 8-10 Easy Horsepower For Your Ford Mustang

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.

This entry was posted in Ford Mustang, Ford Mustang Video, New Video and tagged BBK, Ford racing, ford, mustang, evan smith, comp cams, cold air kit, america, evan j smith, cobra, headers, 1990 mustang, brentech, 1986 mustang, afr, cnc, cnc-machined, cobra intake, mustang horsepower, Ford Mustang on January 7, 2015 by Evan Smith.
Ford Mustang Power is Easy With a Cold-Air Induction

Ford Mustang Power is Easy With a Cold-Air Induction

Performance enthusiasts know there is an simple route to horsepower, in fact Ford Mustang Power is Easy With a Cold-Air Induction. Ram Air and cold-air induction has been a part of hot rodding since the early years, but feeding your Ford’s engine with fresh air got easier in the late 1980s when companies like BBK began developing and selling dedicated bolt-on cold-air kits that added horsepower and were affordable and easy to install.

Even the last carbureted 5.0 Liter Mustangs in 1985 used a system that drew air from the inner fenders, rather than under the hood. The 1986 EFI Mustang followed suit with a similar system and Ford has refined the Mustang induction system ever since. You may not know the factory induction is compromised because of concerns with underhood noise. Ford limits induction noise with inlet silencers built into the system, unfortunately, on some models this can serve as a restriction to air flow. Ford also designs and engine and its components to reach a desired power level, so as you increase the output, certain parts may be maxed out. Thankfully, Brothers Performance.com has your solution, with a variety of cold-air inlet kits for all late-model EFI Mustangs.

Getting more air into your engine is the very first step in creating more horsepower, and installing a cold-air kit is something you can do at home with basic tools. Newer models will work best with a recalibrated “tune” using a hand-held flash tuner like the SCT X4, to ensure your engine is operating with the proper air/fuel ratio. This will not only give you the most power, but also the best drivability and durability.

Depending on your combination, a cold-air kit can be worth as much as 15 horsepower at the wheels, but we’ve seen more in supercharged combinations. A properly built cold-air kit will include a free-flowing inlet elbow and air filter, but also a shield or box that limits or prevents hot underhood air from being fed to the engine. You'll also get installation hardware and instructions.

Along with any cold-air kit, we recommend the aforementioned "tune" and you can take your Ford Mustang to the next level with a larger throttle body and free-flowing exhaust. Modding your Mustang is fun, and it never hurts to have extra horsepower and torque under your right foot.

This entry was posted in News, New Products, Ford Mustang, Great Videos You MUST See!, Ford Mustang Video, New Video and tagged sct, mustang, evan smith, mustang cold air kit, evan j smith, horsepower, bbl, efi, tune, ram air, Ford Mustang on January 5, 2015 by Evan Smith.
Panhard Bar for 2005-2014 Ford Mustangs

Elisa Coon takes this Steeda Mustang around Sebring International Raceway.

Panhard Bar for 2005-2014 Mustangs

While Ford did an outstanding job with the 2005-2014 Mustang, enthusiasts are always looking to dial in performance to their liking. The S197 chassis provides a much-improved platform when compared to the Fox and Fox-4 it replaced, but like most production vehicles, the manufacturer made concessions for comfort and ride quality. No problem, Brothers Performance is here to help you add power, improve handling, and stop shorter. The first step is to get your hands on an aftermarket Panhard Bar for 2005-2014 Ford Mustangs.

All S197 2005-2014 Ford Mustangs are equipped with a MacPherson strut suspension up front, and a three-link rear suspension with coil springs and a Panhard Bar (also called a Panhard Rod or a Track Bar) out back. This suspension works great for street performance, as well as for drag racing and road racing—but you can make it better with aftermarket springs and shocks designed for your specific driving style. It's just natural to swap in performance suspension links and polyurethane bushings, better brakes, and any type of power adder you give you more “GO!”

The Panhard Bar is a critical component of the rear suspension. It's mounted laterally and connects between the Mustang’s body and rear-end housing to limit side-to-side movement of the rear end housing in relation to the body of the vehicle, while allowing the rear to move up and down through the designed range of motion. Vertical movement is necessary to keep the tires in compliance with the road or track surface. If you made your suspension too stiff, the result would be like a skateboard hitting a rock, and your tires would bounce off the surface. As you can guess, this is not good for handling or even basic control. Dropping your Stang and adding some stiffness is actually good for handling, thankfully the factory leaves room for you to lower your Mustang and install parts to improve steering response and overall handling, without sacrificing ride quality.

Recently, the BrothersPerformance.com team installed an adjustable Panhard Bar from Steeda, which carries part number 555-2551A and sells for about $170.00. Adjustability in a Panhard Bar length is useful—as it allows you to properly center the rear housing under the car. This is important in any Mustang, but especially lowered Mustangs. If you have the stock bar in place, as you lower your S197 Ford Mustang, the rear will slide to the left. Lateral movement of the rear as well as the adjustability feature of the Steeda bar is shown in our attached video.

Steeda’s Adjustable Panhard Bar is built from lightweight 4130 chrome moly steel (making it four pounds lighter than stock), and it has high-durometer bushings in place of rubber bushings. As we mentioned, its length is adjustable, even when it’s mounted in the car—we really like this feature. It also looks pretty racy.

You can expect easy installation using basic hand tools, plus the ability to easily set your rear perfectly under the car, and of course enhanced handling with better response.

This entry was posted in New Products, Ford Mustang, Ford Mustang Video, New Video and tagged Brothers Performance, mustang suspension, ford, evan smith, steeda, evan j smith, ford mustang 2005-2014 mustang, panhard bar, s197 easy install on December 29, 2014 by Evan Smith.
2005 to 2010 Mustang BBK Power Plus Throttle Body

2005 to 2010 Mustang BBK Power Plus Throttle Body

Late-Model Mustang owners have long been aware of the improvements offered from an aftermarket throttle body. Larger-than-stock throttle bodies give your engine an increase in airflow and BrothersPerformance.com stocks a complete selection of Mustang throttle bodies for virtually every application. As you know, BBK Performance was the very first aftermarket company to provide a Mustang-specific throttle body, way back in the Fox-body Mustang days. And one popular model is the 2005 to 2010 Mustang BBK Power Plus Throttle Body.

The 2005-2010 Mustang GT was equipped with the reliable 300 horsepower 4.6-liter modular Three-Valve engine that uses a front-mounted twin-bore throttle body. And while they make 300 horsepower in stock trim, a generous bump in power can be had with simple bolt-on parts including cold-air kits, headers and exhaust, camshafts, intake manifolds, flash tuners and of course, throttle bodies. Direct bolt-on BBK Power Plus throttle bodies for the 4.6 can be had from BBK in either twin-62 mm or twin-65 mm sizes.

Each BBK throttle body begins life as a high-quality 356-aluminum casting, which is very strong and provides excellent resistance to corrosion. This aluminum type is commonly used in aircraft parts, structural castings such as automatic transmission cases, and impellers, too.

Each casting is CNC-machined and comes with new electronic controlled injection-molded plastic gear assemblies to work smoothly with your drive-by-wire system. All this technology makes for a hassle-free installation that you can accomplish at home. By the way, installation is actually easy enough for a novice and requires only hand tools.

BBK not only sells a variety of throttle bodies for the Fox Mustang, but for all late-model 5.0L, Two-Valve, Three-Valve and Four-Valve Mustang engines—right up to the all-new 2015 models. And BBK Power Plus throttle bodies are designed and built with quality and performance in mind—right here in the U.S.A.

With no other modifications, we’ve seen 10-15 horsepower at the wheels—but the best performance will come after you installed a new tune. We always recommend a flash tuner, such as the SCT X4 and a cold-air kit to compliment a new throttle body. This is the best way you’ll maximize airflow and the air/fuel ratio for efficiency, power and drivability.

This entry was posted in Ford Mustang, Great Videos You MUST See!, Ford Mustang Video, New Video and tagged Brothers Performance, BBK Performance, ford, mustang, throttle body, evan smith, mustang throttle body, evan j smith, three-valve, modular engine, modular on December 19, 2014 by Evan Smith.