The American Muscle Mustang as it is in their shop being tuned on the Dyno. Photo: AmericanMuscle.com

The craze continues with yet another impressive performance from the 2011 Mustang. This time it happened in the northeast at Cecil county Dragway. Cecil County is no stranger to fast cars as they have one of the very best monthly heads up racing series in the country which is why a lot of racers choose to venture to Rising Sun, Md. for testing. It is truly amazing how fast the technology has progressed for these new Mustangs and the 5.0 Coyote based engine that has become the mainstay for the performance industry.

This time we get to watch a automatic car that is owned by American Muscle in action and within a few runs it became one of the fastest of its kind in the country. Before the trip to the track, the Mustang was equipped with a set of 4.10 gears, full exhaust from Magnaflow and a Bama Cold Air Intake.   The first pass was made on the larger Bullitt-style wheels with Nitto Drag Radials and the elapsed time was 11.76 @ 119mph. The next change was a swap to Racestar Industries skinnies in the front with a M&H tire and 15×8’s in the rear with Mickey Thompson 275 Drag Radials. The net was nearly a tenth of a second faster to a 11.68 @ 120mph. After this they loaded a nitrous tune into the computer using a SCT Tuner to handle the 100 shot and 93 octane.

The last pass of the day can always be the most exciting and for the American Muscle crew it was. After a long smokey burnout on the Mickey Thompsons it was to the line.  It was a 1.56 sixty foot time that helped get the elapsed time down in the 10 second range. The end result was 10.93 @ 125mph which the crew was very happy with.  For an automatic car this is even more impressive and with just a bit more nitrous the mid 10’s are in easy reach. Stay tuned to see what happens next.