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August 16, 2007
2004 Mach 1

This customers orange 2004 Mach-1 shows a simple, clean appearing exterior and under hood area, but inside all this simple appearance it sports a 4.6L that’s now stroked to a 5.0L and uses Alternative auto CNC ported 32V heads.

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March 19, 2007
2005 and up 4.0L V-6 Mustang Full Vortech Installs And Custom Dyno Tunes

For the 2005 and up 4.0L V-6 Mustangs, Alternative Auto is offering Full Vortech installs and custom dyno tunes. We will be offering these kits for the 4.0L cars with and with-out Vortech’s water to air after-cooler package, plus include the option of a methanol install too.

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March 12, 2007
Magnacharger Supercharger Kit For The '05 And Up 3-valve Mustangs

In our continuing efforts to offer quality and performance power adders for the 4.6L 3-valve Mustangs, Alternative Auto has added another supercharger to the line up.

We’re now offering the Magnacharger supercharger kit for the ’05 and up 3-valve Mustangs.

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March 4, 2007
Performance Package for the Ford GT adds 100+ RWHP and RWTQ

After some base line pulls and tweaking of a stock Ford GT super car, we moved on to installing additional parts in a package that we will begin offering for the Ford GT’s in early 2007.

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January 31, 2007
Alternative Auto Engine Building Capabilities

Alternative auto has been doing complete engine rebuilds really since the shop was started back in 1990. Ranging from 302 to 418 Windsor’s and today’s 4.6L’s Modular’s.

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