My new Coyote "Jolie" ... and thank you to all of you!
Hello everyone, I have finally joined the "club"... picked up my new (to me) Coyote this past Saturday, and I am in complete love. It is a 2013 Deep Impact Blue GT base model.
Yes, the audio system is flat awful, and yes I do miss the electronics, but WOW what a car. I ended up going for more car, and less "stuff", and guys the way that day started out... very bad.
Basically (in my price range I was very limited), I had locked on to the 2011 Black Cali Special as the red Brembo had sold. For as many Mustang GTs out there so many are junk. Anyway I get to the dealer who has the car and the bumper has fresh damage, and (oh you are not even ready for this) upon cold start (sitting for a week) the engine has a LOUD tick/clack. I inquire and they proceed to tell me that the engine has been rebuilt (62k miles). That their local shop did it... that there is a problem with all 11's and the engines have to all be rebuilt. WOW, LMAO. I sit with the owner and go over TSBs, demand the paperwork as I am an old service writer. He says he produce, I leave.
Now it is Sat late morning, I am ready to buy, the car I was going to buy is now junk. I start scanning cargurus.. I find a beautiful 13 blue GT 20 miles away, just listed a couple days ago. Looking it is a stick, and uggh a base, and uggggghhhh light gray cloth interior, but the price is strong. It is at a Cadiallac dealer so I call them. The salesman is very good, straight, no BS, says it is there, I tell him I am on the way.
We (family and I) get there and the dealership is huge, the car... gorgeous. The cloth really is not THAT bad, I know I can leather it. Drives like a dream, and oh WOW how clean it is, it looks new, smells new, 51k miles. The only thing and I mean the ONLY thing is small rock chips. Interior, perfect.
Thinking on this I'm realizing this car has been traded into a Cadillac dealer (likely for a Cadillac), it is bone stock, it is VERY well kept, the oil change sticker was Hennesey Lexus, the radio stations were oldies... this car is perfect!
Of course my daughter had to ride home in the Mustang with me, any pull was the biggest giggle, and she has named the car "Jolie" (Jo-lee)... which means pretty in French. Backstory is the 93 built FOX she rode home from the hospital in at birth, and grew up in the back seat of for 12 years she also had named way back then. It was a Reef blue 5.0 she named "pretty" as a young child, so it fits.
I'm gonna have lots of questions as I go, and am so appreciative of you all. I am fine with the 3.31 gear atm, seems to be the perfect DD, really don't think I would have liked 3.73 as much. This clutch engagement is a bit of challenge for some reason to get smooth with, and no question a MGW is going in soon as I do not like the feel (well lack of) of the shifter. Wondering if the spring people have pulled out of the clutch would help. Granted it has only been a few days, but I am usually silk smooth with any clutch. Managed 331,000 miles on my stock T5 fox with 2 clutches only.
Here are some pics... Flowmaster Outlaws due here in 2 days :wink:
Guys this thing is beautiful, I am so in love.
Hello everyone, I have finally joined the "club"... picked up my new (to me) Coyote this past Saturday, and I am in complete love. It is a 2013 Deep Impact Blue GT base model.
Yes, the audio system is flat awful, and yes I do miss the electronics, but WOW what a car. I ended up going for more car, and less "stuff", and guys the way that day started out... very bad.
Basically (in my price range I was very limited), I had locked on to the 2011 Black Cali Special as the red Brembo had sold. For as many Mustang GTs out there so many are junk. Anyway I get to the dealer who has the car and the bumper has fresh damage, and (oh you are not even ready for this) upon cold start (sitting for a week) the engine has a LOUD tick/clack. I inquire and they proceed to tell me that the engine has been rebuilt (62k miles). That their local shop did it... that there is a problem with all 11's and the engines have to all be rebuilt. WOW, LMAO. I sit with the owner and go over TSBs, demand the paperwork as I am an old service writer. He says he produce, I leave.
Now it is Sat late morning, I am ready to buy, the car I was going to buy is now junk. I start scanning cargurus.. I find a beautiful 13 blue GT 20 miles away, just listed a couple days ago. Looking it is a stick, and uggh a base, and uggggghhhh light gray cloth interior, but the price is strong. It is at a Cadiallac dealer so I call them. The salesman is very good, straight, no BS, says it is there, I tell him I am on the way.
We (family and I) get there and the dealership is huge, the car... gorgeous. The cloth really is not THAT bad, I know I can leather it. Drives like a dream, and oh WOW how clean it is, it looks new, smells new, 51k miles. The only thing and I mean the ONLY thing is small rock chips. Interior, perfect.
Thinking on this I'm realizing this car has been traded into a Cadillac dealer (likely for a Cadillac), it is bone stock, it is VERY well kept, the oil change sticker was Hennesey Lexus, the radio stations were oldies... this car is perfect!
Of course my daughter had to ride home in the Mustang with me, any pull was the biggest giggle, and she has named the car "Jolie" (Jo-lee)... which means pretty in French. Backstory is the 93 built FOX she rode home from the hospital in at birth, and grew up in the back seat of for 12 years she also had named way back then. It was a Reef blue 5.0 she named "pretty" as a young child, so it fits.
I'm gonna have lots of questions as I go, and am so appreciative of you all. I am fine with the 3.31 gear atm, seems to be the perfect DD, really don't think I would have liked 3.73 as much. This clutch engagement is a bit of challenge for some reason to get smooth with, and no question a MGW is going in soon as I do not like the feel (well lack of) of the shifter. Wondering if the spring people have pulled out of the clutch would help. Granted it has only been a few days, but I am usually silk smooth with any clutch. Managed 331,000 miles on my stock T5 fox with 2 clutches only.
Here are some pics... Flowmaster Outlaws due here in 2 days :wink:
Guys this thing is beautiful, I am so in love.