There can be no mistaking the 2012 BOSS 302 Mustang for anything but a race-ready performance car. Ford has gone to great pains to ensure that the BOSS 302 lives up to the infamous moniker both on and off the track. Luckily, new technology has given Ford a favorable advantage in making the new BOSS 302 better in so many ways from the original Mustang that bore the moniker.

One of these improvements comes in the form of a TracKey, which as this video from Ford Racing shows us, dramatically alters not just how the BOSS 302 Mustang acts, but how it sounds.

Special keys seem to be all the rage with automakers these days, from push-button starters on Honda Civics to the Bugatti Veyron’s mystical key that lowers the car and allows it to go 253 mph. The Ford TracKey has a similar intent in mind; when plugged into the ignition of your BOSS 302 Mustang, the TracKey alters around 200 engine parameters. What this does is alter the way to BOSS 302 Mustang handles and applies torque. Essentially, it removes all the restrictions placed on the BOSS 302 for drivability’s sake and unleashes the inner animal of the BOSS 302.  Also as you can hear in the video, the cam phasing is adjusted as well, to give a much more aggressive tone.

That’s not the only trick found in the TracKey. Plugging this special device in opens up the option of using a two-stage launch control system not unlike the system used in the Cobra Jet Mustang. Most importantly though, it makes the mean-sounding BOSS 302 Mustang sound even more badass (and we weren’t sure that was possible.) Don’t believe us? Just watch this brief video; there’s a very distinct difference between the two exhaust notes that makes us giddy with desire.