Hello!
I am a new owner of a white '13 PP SHO, 80k mi, GH Tune (w associated spark plugs, MAPS sensor, Therm). Bought from a family member a couple months ago in AZ. Young aerospace engineer looking to go gearhead, not much previous experience w cars.
Starting to brainstorm ideas for cheap n easy mods. This is my daily, and I expect long daily commutes for awhile, so wouldn't do anything to my SHO chasing power or setting drag times, just things to make driving her more enjoyable. Some things I will probably do in the near-ish future:
-- muffler delete: seems like a fun and cheap experiment (seems like a $60 trip to autozone could do the trick), can always be temporary. Have buddies in town w shops, would be a fun saturday morning project, see how obnoxious the volume and drone is.
-- chrome delete: spent $5 on some cheapy black chrome delete tape, gonna play around w it and see if i want to spend $50 on more to delete all exterior chrome
-- BOV: sounds like another fun and cheap experiment to make some fun noises for a bit
-- intake: another reasonable mod to start out with, just need to look more into if/how that affects the tune
-- any other suggestions?
Some other comments i have after a couple months of ownership:
-- Sync sucks - I have a tendency to have all electr stuff malfunction around me, but my Sync is super fragile and finicky (sounds like its not just me). In my 2 months, it's probably shut down for system maintenance probably a dozen times, not a huge deal, just annoying. Phone calls are hit and miss, I've even had it shut itself down a couple times if I am on a call and then start the car and it tries to connect the call. Bluetooth to my iphone is also iffy, gotta reconnect the phone every week or two.
-- GH tune is great: definitely enough for me to have fun driving it around. Definitely want to get in touch w Matt from GH, seems like a great guy from what ive seen in the other forums
Also been thinking of a fun side project (CHEAP) car at some point. I think it would be awesome to double down on a first/second gen SHO, then I can be known in town as the nuts Taurus dude.
Thanks!
I am a new owner of a white '13 PP SHO, 80k mi, GH Tune (w associated spark plugs, MAPS sensor, Therm). Bought from a family member a couple months ago in AZ. Young aerospace engineer looking to go gearhead, not much previous experience w cars.
Starting to brainstorm ideas for cheap n easy mods. This is my daily, and I expect long daily commutes for awhile, so wouldn't do anything to my SHO chasing power or setting drag times, just things to make driving her more enjoyable. Some things I will probably do in the near-ish future:
-- muffler delete: seems like a fun and cheap experiment (seems like a $60 trip to autozone could do the trick), can always be temporary. Have buddies in town w shops, would be a fun saturday morning project, see how obnoxious the volume and drone is.
-- chrome delete: spent $5 on some cheapy black chrome delete tape, gonna play around w it and see if i want to spend $50 on more to delete all exterior chrome
-- BOV: sounds like another fun and cheap experiment to make some fun noises for a bit
-- intake: another reasonable mod to start out with, just need to look more into if/how that affects the tune
-- any other suggestions?
Some other comments i have after a couple months of ownership:
-- Sync sucks - I have a tendency to have all electr stuff malfunction around me, but my Sync is super fragile and finicky (sounds like its not just me). In my 2 months, it's probably shut down for system maintenance probably a dozen times, not a huge deal, just annoying. Phone calls are hit and miss, I've even had it shut itself down a couple times if I am on a call and then start the car and it tries to connect the call. Bluetooth to my iphone is also iffy, gotta reconnect the phone every week or two.
-- GH tune is great: definitely enough for me to have fun driving it around. Definitely want to get in touch w Matt from GH, seems like a great guy from what ive seen in the other forums
Also been thinking of a fun side project (CHEAP) car at some point. I think it would be awesome to double down on a first/second gen SHO, then I can be known in town as the nuts Taurus dude.
Thanks!
