2004 Mustang Mach 1 - One Take 

Couple years done the line he might take a chance and change the shocks...

jwilh15 I think it was for the exhaust. Not cali legal.

Mark Mc Hugh lool seriously.my car is registered in CA and still got more stuff on it.

its mostly exhaust, I dont think you know how bad exhaust regulation are in CA

i think Matt's "be careful saying that" might have tucked a few mods under the rug. Dude port and polished the heads, that's quite an undertaking (assembly wise) to not do much more. Granted, i havent looked at the Wheelwell profile.

Dudeman9339 250? wheel? Na if its a stock GT they make 260 from the engine. low 200 wheel lol

99-04GT=225-235rwhp/man.trans

adrenaholic1 thank you.

it's not stock. It has magnaflow exhaust and slightly larger injectors, if I remember right. Anyway he was told by the guy he bought it from that it was 400rwhp and that it used to be supercharged. I would believe 400 on the SC but not on what it's running now. Also he refuses to admit that his 3rd gear is stripped like hell and keeps telling me I'm shifting it wrong.

Joe Dirt ARE YOU SERIOUS!!! No wonder my s2000 beat so many mustangs lol. Dude proper bolted up w/tune 4 banger Honda s2000's are putting out 200 wheel all day... That is sad....

Lol.

lol

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I have a 96 bronco :D looks just like oj's lol it's great nice ride good torque I have the 5.8 only thing I don't like is the mpg and the rattily ass interior

Yeah I heard it's a killer truck

Agreed! Shootout to Achievement Hunter

Matt Stevens I thought I was the only one to see that XD

I have an 03 Mach 1 I just purchased two days ago and it’s fun, but my 96 cobra with bbk intake and throttle body,under drive pullies,center force clutch,aluminum one piece driveshaft,3:73 rear gears,and a mgw short shifter out guns my stock 03 Mach 1 by bus lengths lol,I will be going full maximum motorsports suspension on my 96 cobra and doing an all motor big bore high compression set up,my goal is to have as close to 500whp as possible all n/a

noredcr interesting tidbit!

TheSmokingTire also, the 03/04 heads are a revised/improved version of the 2001 C-heads. And another reason Ford used the 5.4 truck intake cams was so that it would make the hood shake a little more (so they said).

***** For what Matt wants his notch will be better then a terminator, Can't wait to see it finished

***** That's still $6-8d more, which I would call significant. Definitely worth it if you're going more track/handling oriented, but for the average road car owner who isn't going to really push the vehicle's limits much: *shrugs*. $6-8k buys a lot of gas and tires.

noredcr A+++ a lot better than 01 cobra motor

+ShamusOGrady2 he said that late 90s one not the 03-04

Bodybuilder X They didn't make a mach 1 in the 90s. Unless he's just talking about the Mustang in general.

ShamusOGrady2 hmm idk then

+ShamusOGrady2 the engine

TrillMurray ,Yup, They are cool Mustangs man.

Lol yea!

Watch more of his reviews. He's honest about all cars. The live axle sucks, let's be honest. Coming from a mustang owner...

It was pretty bad; usually this reviews are good. Bad day for him.

No - Mach 1 motor not hand built. Cobra Termi motors hand built but with Iron block and forged internals.

@@lollol-xp4mc It shows. Always liked when the rich kids came to street race back in the day in the late 90s and early 2000s when I was doing that. Mommy and daddy would buy them the newest camaro or mustang out there, all for them to get beat by a 10 year old at the time 5.0 that was built by me and my brother for half of what they had in their cars, because we actually had to work for our stuff and didnt get to go pick out something new off a dealer showroom. The funniest was watching a kid one night talk about how his brand new white with hugger orange anniversary edition camaro that was bone stock was the fastest car out there, and the pure joy I got from his face when he handed over the $300 we were racing for that night. That little notchback foxbody I had back then almost made him cry. He probably went home and told his parents he wanted something else because we never saw him or that car around town again....lol

yea this guy literally doesn't know shit about the mustang generations...as I was watching this video I was like wrong, wrong, wrong lol

Glad someone said exactly what I was thinking. As a 71 Mach 1 and 04 Mach 1 owner I was sitting here cringing

What the hell do you mean by "I remember when 3000-lbs was fat"?? Back in the day cars were much heavier! The Thunderbird weighed 6000 lbs! Cars are getting lighter and lighter, and the New Edge Mustangs are one of the lightest Mustangs.

Ali Ahadi right there with you. :)

You can blame electronic everything, and power this and that.... everyone wants more hp, yet forgets their driving a pig...lol

PistnRods Depends mostly on what type of cars you've driven. Modern Mustangs aren't exactly "light" but, 3,200 is on the lighter side of the two-door sports car-muscle car spectrum. Now, if you drive a lot of 80s-90s japanese cars, like your 240sx or Honda Civic, then those will be lighter for sure. Like the guy above me said, "electric everything and power this and that.." More and more safety features also tack on weight as the years go by. 3,200 lbs is on the light side, even in the current Japanese line-ups.

Still these cars are pretty light for wht they are, with all my weight reduction and suspension I should be in the 2800-2900 lbs

How

What's the difference and which is more reliable?

@@jaimem.2615 The aluminum block weighs about 80 LBS less than the cast iron block. Both are equally reliable unless you overheat the engine pretty bad in that case iron is more forgiving. The iron block used in the Cobra is also stronger for high horsepower modifications over the aluminum block in the Mach 1 but the older aluminum block found in 1996-2001 Cobras is about as strong as the Iron block. The Teksid aluminum block is the stronger one. The later WAP aluminum block is less strong

Yeah it's kind of embarrassing especially for the host.

The host knows his shit.

I own a Azure blue Mach 1 Mustang and it is a automatic. Factory Dyno is around 260-270 at the wheels. The 5 speed put down 280-290 at the wheels. So I would say 305-310 at the motor for the auto and 320-330 for the 5 speed.

It really didnt make 330 its more like 270

@@mistress313 automatic weak as piss

I had one that had 18,000 miles. 5 speed that bone stock (and I mean bone stock) absolutely nothing aftermarket dyno 298 at 5700 and 322 to at 4000. And I know a few more people that had similar numbers. This cars were definitely underrated as were the cobras of the same years.

And there was nothing special about the bullit compared to the Mach 1. The bullit was just another gt with a different paint job and different badges lol

Also bullitt ran for 2001 only. So how would it compete with a car that came out 2 years later.

@@petrolhead8851Incorrect, massively. I own TWO 2004 Mach 1’s. One (Azure Blue) is bone stock, the other (Torch Red) only has the stock block, heads and 3650) and the car makes 717rwhp/663tq. The 2001 Bullitt was NOT just an exclusive color GT with Bullitt badges. It was a GT, yes, but it was more. The Bullitt’s came from the factory with Cobra brakes (just like the Mach 1’s did). The Bullitt came with a custom aluminum upper/lower intake that gave it a slight bump in power….unlike the normal GT that came with the plastic intake. (I used to own a ‘99 GT). The Bullitt had lowered coil springs and a stiffer suspension setup compared to the GT. The coils were lower than the Mach 1’s as well. In terms of height the GT sat the highest, then the Mach 1 was a bit lower and the Bullitt sat the lowest stock. They all had different part numbers for the coil springs. The Bullitt was the first Mustang to use the 3650 5 speed. The Bullitt’s were built to handle better than a normal GT and were meant to be a more simple looking car compared to the normal GT (Think: Police detective on a budget…). The Bullitt was also a numbered car, there were two spots on the car that had a unique number printed on a hologram decal. One on the driver’s side strut tower, and the other under the back seat (driver’s side) behind the carpet. Ford themselves had a third decal for each car. Folks just didn’t understand the Bullitt, and many still don’t. Some see them and think “Meh, it’s just a boring ugly green GT….where’s the wing? Where’s the scoops?”. Those folks just don’t know how to research to save their lives. 😂 Many parts from the Bullitt project ended up carrying over to the Mach 1’s. The brakes, the sail panels (again, unique to the Bullitt, even stamped “Bullitt”), the (unique to the Bullitt) shift ball, pedal pads, shifter trim ring….all carried over to the Mach. Originally the Bullitt was to have the 2003 Cobra rear bumper cover as well as the SVT built 4 valve but they couldn’t make it happen. The Mach 1 was originally supposed to also have the Bullitt’s unique side skirts, but in the end they went with the normal GT skirts….which is a bummer since those side skirts are as rare as hens teeth (nobody makes them anymore). But to say the Bullitt was just paint and badges is flat out wrong. It’s a very original and unique car. For the right Bullitt I’d probably trade my Azure Blue Mach 1 for one. They rock.

Wrong.. Flat out wrong.

Didnt know that. Thanks.

Yeah some with well over 100k miles are around 9 or 9.5k

I was thinking the exact same thing

+3.8drew LOl

***** the issue is he is acting like one, it would been perfectly fine to not say a word about the car, instead he made himself look like an idiot

+Dsgdrew the mach 1 does make 305 stock. but because if the more even torque curve and solid axel its quite a bit faster then the 99-01 cobras. although the IRS makes a huge difference on tight roads

white chocolate machs make 320hp and they have 3.55 gears thats what made em faster

Little? How is this little?

kma198199 It is compared to the current crop of pony cars. Seriously, the only cars I actually look down at while driving are the Miata and FRS.

kma198199 shiiiit you couldve fooled me that shit tiny inside, i know exactly what they meant when he said you feel like you sittiing on top of the car. my fox feels roomy compare to the new edge, im 6 flat

Yup lol only difference from the SN 95 cobra to the new edge cobra PBR calipers is the New Edge ones have 40.5mm pistons as opposed to the 38mm pistons on the pre-99 Cobras

Dick Steel They did have brembo rotors if I’m not mistaken though.

They’re actually Baer brake calipers, not Brembo. Cobras and vettes had them from the 90’s to the 00’s.

jared p Big ford engines have alot of low end torque. They are happy at 2-3 rpm.

hahaha i love how he started out thinking it was lazy until he tach'd it out once. He realized it pretty quickly, that ol 4v screams a bit. When you let them breathe, they rev just like a new coyote.

+1flynlow lol not me.

+dsavish lol

Yeah when the owners get here you will get the haters.

That's like saying Mcdonalds is my dream meal.

Cool story bro.

noredcr Setting the bar high I see.

@@XenomorphLV426 not everybody wants a million dollar super car

***** Once you see how far even just the base GTs have came down in price[6-8k for a clean 80k mile GT] I dont know what even competes in terms of a fun drivers car

All the stripes are there, you can see them in the sun light when Matt is driving. They're just black, and the car is black, so it all blends together.

Joe Dirt Not a bad deal at all. Definitely will want to buy one down the road- if I can ever stop hot rodding box body Grand Marquis, LTD Crown Vics, and Town Cars. Haha.

***** I've owned three new edge Mustangs, the thing that surprised me the most about this video is that he didn't know how much more fun they are when revved past 4k rpm. It totally changes the sound and feel of the car.

Yeah, its obvious that his old SN95 was of the 302 variety. I'm not bashing on him but he clearly isn't into mustangs as much as he is other cars, which I find funny because I think he drove a GT500 for Gumball.

Was thinking the same thing. I mean he probably just mixed up some knowledge, but whatever, these videos are great! Being a mustang fanboy I did catch the same slip ups though!

Hahahaa! no doubt. I like all the personal touches on these rides. I also like that the owners get to have their input.

***** Yeah its good to hear both of their inputs! Very cool that Matt being sort of a celebrity coming out and being social with the car community with random people. I'm starting car reviews (I have my first one up of my buddies 2011 gti) and I'm trying to incorporate owner perspective too. Not many car reviewers give owners a chance for input, which is crucial to making a credible review.

No they’re not! The 96-98 cobras are the best bang for buck v8! Lol

Yeah. For what I know the new edges didn't have a 3v. I think it was only a 2v and a 4v.

That is correct sir. I just thought it was funny he was talking some shit on the new edge platform when he doesn't even know the drivetrain lol

I believe he was actually saying one of his friends swapped a 05-10 3V motor into a New Edge. Which I have seen on the interwebs before, but nowadays the Coyote swap seems to be much more popular.

3v engine was more compact and just as good as the 4v cobra stuff