Braking the 5.0 GT

During a trip to Switzerland and Italy I had lot of possibilities to test the refurbished Mustang GT brakes(see Brake upgrade 5.0 GT) whilst driving over several mountain passes. On streetdriving the Hawk pads give better brake feel and less pedal effort. You can feel that the pads have a higher friction coefficient and I am quite sure that the stopping distances are reduced. But driving mountain passes reveal new problems with this setup, due to the higher friction cefficient and better braking the heat builds up much more quickly, the frontbrakes start to smell and smoke, disks start to warp and the brakepedal jumps. Luckily the Hawk pads can handle the heat and the car is still braking. Conclusion: Instead of the stock pads the stock frontdisks are now weakest point in the system.


Simplon pass

Bye, Bye Mustang

The 69 Mustang fastack is sold. The owner George Komaretho switched to a Ford RS2000 for rest of season. I m a little bit sad about it, we raced the car for two seasons with success. 90% of the races were finished. Walter K. and me were responsible for concept and building. The car wasnt built strictly for winning more for reliability and as a TransAm clone of the famous George Follmer car.
2004 3rd place overall Per.G over 2500ccm
2005 3rd place overall Per.G over 2500ccm
2006 1st place overall Per.G over 3000ccm after 2 races

Be aware maybe there will be a worthy successor next year!


In the rain, Brno 2006

Jump around!

Mustang #69 this year #25 at 2006 Season Opening in Melk spinning and jumping after locking the rear brakes. More pics at Histo Cup Fotos


Jump up, jump up, and get down!

Gurney Eagle engine on Ebay

Last month a Ford 302 with the super rare Gurney Weslake heads like in our Mustang racer #69 was auctioned on Ebay. Engine was in no working order used condition and didnt look very faithful on the pictures. Location Victoria/Australia. Dont know the start prize but winning bid was 24000AD that should be about 18500USD.

Ebay Gurney Eagle auction

Agent Orange

My friend and long time dragace companion Mexx thinks about selling his awfully fast Karmann Ghia Convertible to be in favor of building a tube chassis Karmann. Featured in various magazines and articles this is obvisiously one of if not the fastest Type 1 engined Street Karmann Ghia Convertible in Europe. Top restored and modified with uncountable hours of machining and labor. Car runs high 13's with long streetgearing (150mph topspeed) and low 11's with slicks on nitrous. Car is built with lot of Porsche parts (5sp.tranny, drive axles, cooling), lightweight aluminum and carbon fiber parts, big brakes, datalogging and various uncountable details (i.e. carbon throttle blades). Engine is a fuelinjected 2.6litres Type1 with about 250hp naturally aspirated and about 400hp on nitrous. Asking prize is 30k € obo which reflects about 50% of investment. For further details mailto: info@mexxspeed.com


11s strike at airport