r/NewedgeMustang

New owner of 02 GT. Anyone have had a similar issue? More noticeable when driving than sitting.

Just started doing this in the morning

Some context:

2003 Mustang GT with Automatic Transmission. 31k miles. 30k mile service was done around 27k.

I ended up jacking the car up from the differential and taking the wheels off to spin the hubs to hear any scraping from the diff or wheel bearings and everything seemed fine. I did notice an ever so slight rub of the brake pads on the rotor when spinning the hubs and the pads were looking on the thinner side but nothing too crazy.

The only time i hear the sound is at low speeds like in parking lots and the sound only happens when the back wheels are unevenly loaded like while I’m turning around a corner or if the ground was not level. I don’t hear the scraping sound when driving in highway speeds.

Any ideas?

I’m now swapping to a 302 motor and thought I should show what I run for my V6 exhaust before I toss it. At pretty much every autocross event or car meet I’ve brought my car to, every new person I meet seems to think my car is a GT, so it works for some people. The main thing, though, is that it just doesn’t sound like hot garbage, so I figured I’d show you how I run mine. (I don’t have any sound clips, sorry.)

This is the fourth exhaust system I’ve made for this car, and I’ve even developed harmonic calculators for college using it.
A few big things about the fundamentals of the harmonics on this car: a V6 fundamentally resonates at 3500 and 5500 rpm, which is generally where these cars sound like hot ass. You need resonators tuned for those specific bands. Luckily for you all, that’s why these cars come with four catalytic converters. The two 5-inch pre-cats are tuned for 5500, and the 14-inch main cats are tuned for 3500.

If you crack those cats open, you’ll find that they’re decently high-flowing. The main 14-inch cat only has about 20% that is actually a catalytic converter—the rest is an echo chamber to help stop resonating. I know it’s popular to go catless, but I would highly recommend against it. You won’t gain any power. The only change I made was deleting one of the 14-inch cats and combining both cylinder banks into a single 14-inch cat to help stabilize the exhaust pulse. (Y-pipes also give you a torque boost on V6s if you do it right.)
My entire system is 2.5 inches from the collector of the headers to the tailpipes. As you can see in the photo, the whole system is not a real X-pipe—you don’t want that anyway. You want the two pulses to combine into a single smooth one, then split again into Super 40s to the tips after that. The 3.8s have one really big thing going for them: they are 90-degree V6s, so they have a very harsh and deep tone. You need to take advantage of that while keeping it from resonating. This system works very well until the very high end, but even then it still sounds pretty damn good for most of the range.

Also exhaust leaks are persistent on these cars, I replaced all my donut collectors with V-band clamps and flex pipes

Any questions, feel free to reach out!

So a bit of a weird post but I’ve been having issues with this for a bit I have to constantly put my hand in front of A/C between shifts or my hand gets kinda tacky/ slippery

This makes rowing gears difficult, when I pull for 4th or second my hand almost slips off the shifter and if I just rest my hand on the shifter it almost sticks to it

I have cleaned it multiple times with hot water and dish soap on MF rag followed up by 99% iso is this just a me problem or the way aluminum reacts with sweaty palms

I don’t wanna be that guy that’s wears driving gloves but considering it or different material shift knob

2002 Mustang GT, 5 speed manual!
(W short shifter 😍)
Any advice for a new owner? I’ve been learning about them for months now leading up to finally owning one.

Trying to replace my old steering wheel. It was seized so badly that while trying to pull it, the actual steering wheel/frame broke apart and left the center metal hub stuck on the steering shaft.
The original puller holes got damaged, we tried a claw puller with no luck, and then tried cutting relief slots into the remaining hub with an angle grinder. That didn’t get it loose either and I don’t want to keep grinding and accidentally damage the steering shaft/splines or clockspring. At this point I don’t care about saving any part of the old wheel. I just need to get this remaining hub off without destroying the steering column. Any ideas? And thank you guys for reading 🙏

After a few years of beating the hell out of my 3.8 and autocrossing I’ve finally bought a motor for my swap, I am upgrading to a 1971 carbureted 302. For those of you who don’t know the T5 the v6s have are sometimes T5 world class transmissions, and can handle some more power, plus paired with a 8.8 I’m building it will be a fun car

Got quoted 1200 to fix this side and the the other side(the other side is a really small bubble that’s starting to appear) how should I go about it cut it my self and have my welding buddy welding a new piece?

So I got this Mustang for super cheap and had no problems with 125k miles. Recently it started making a creaking sound when I turn and especially when I brake. Changed the PS fluid a few times and changed the struts as well and nothing has changed. Does anybody have an idea of what this could be? I’m not the best with cars at the moment but I am learning!

Been going back and forth on the new look on this car as I have always been a fan of the stock GT bumper, but the 99-01 Cobra bumper does look really good.

Idk kinda just at a Lost. I was literally driving to a Job Fair and my mustang took a Crap on me. One second it was running Fine the next it was running Rough literally just like a flip of a Switch. Idk. No Job No Car no money of my Own. I guess just sell the mustang and try finding a beater. Im just not really sure what to do I've put so much money I into this Car im not really in a Position to just pour money into it. Literally not a clue what could be wrong with it. Idk any advice or words of Wisdom would be nice.