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Old January 30th 12, 03:40 AM posted to rec.autos.makers.ford.mustang
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Default T-Frog -- All You Need Is a Turbo Tuneup.

On Jan 29, 9:27*pm, "biofilm" > wrote:
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> >> 140,000 miles and 450 HP.

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> >>http://www.stangtv.com/news/video-tu...450-hp-on-most....

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> >> Patrick

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> > $6,000 for a gently-used Fox? First one with $6,000 gets to drive my car
> > away (and, yes, it is a fully-functional gently-used Fox).

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> > I went through the exercise years ago - priced out a new 302 crate engine
> > ($3,200), then started adding up all of the other components I would have
> > needed. At the time, complete with a killer paint job, I would have spent
> > between $10K and $12K on that project. In the end, I decided that TFrog
> > was just fine the way it was.

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> > These days, staring retirement in the face (in 10 years), I'd gladly take
> > $6,000 for TFrog, another $6,000 for CFrog, and plop that money down on a
> > new V6 with two and only two options (performance package and illuminated
> > door sills). Let someone else dump all that money into an 18-year-old Fox.

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> > dwight
> >www.tfrog.com

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> I sold my 1993 after having it 14 years, I put a used KB 8# supercharger on
> it (bought SC out of Autotrader), had to rebuild the engine a couple years
> ago, and the car was too brutal for the wife/kids to ride in ( actually that
> is good news). *But I started haveing drive train vibrations, and was tired
> of putting more money into the car. *It was very fast, great for in town.

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