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RACE ON SUNDAY, DRIVE TO WORK ON MONDAY
2012 Laguna Seca Boss 302 Mustang #289 of 750,
2000 Street Miles
Developed by Ford to provide weekend racers with a factory track car that can be driven to the course, take the win, then drive back home again, the Laguna Seca package pares the Boss 302 down to its essential elements with aggressive suspension, chassis and aerodynamic tuning, creating a ready-for-racing Boss.
This Seca is striking, with Black paint, a red C stripe and a red roof. Up front there's a unique splitter developed on the Boss 302R Grand Am racecar and out back there's a larger spoiler than on the standard Boss. Inside there’s a three-gauge cluster that includes coolant temperature, oil pressure and a dynamic performance gauge, an Alcantara suede-wrapped steering wheel, Recaro front seats and no rear seats — a chassis brace good for 10 percent more torsional rigidity resides in their place. Eleven pounds of sound deadening have also been removed from the interior.
But the parts that matter are underneath.
The Laguna Seca package gets unique damper and spring tuning, a larger rear antiroll bar and a Torsen limited-slip differential. Shocks have 5 manually adjustable settings. There are also wider rear wheels (by 0.5 inch) and — probably the most critical component in quicker lap times — R-compound Pirelli P Zero Corsa rubber sized 255/40ZR19 front and 285/35ZR19 rear on lightweight 19-inch alloy racing wheels. Ford Racing front brake ducts force air directly onto the 14-inch vented rotors, reducing fade and ensuring hard, repeatable late braking on the track.
Both the Laguna Seca and the standard Boss utilize the same tweaked 5.0-liter power plant that spins to a satisfying 7,500 rpm and twists out 444 horsepower and 380 pound-feet of torque. The horsepower increase is a result of a short-runner intake manifold, CNC-ported cylinder heads, new cams and lightened valve train components. Forged pistons and connecting rods are also part of the package, which is completed with an oil cooler and a baffled oil pan. The transmission — a six-speed manual — comes with a heavy-duty clutch and a 3.73:1 final drive.
New on the Boss is three-way adjustable steering effort that can be controlled through the instrument cluster menu on the dashboard. Switching among Comfort, Normal and Sport modes increases the effort accordingly. Two-mode stability control (Normal or Sport) takes a good 10 seconds of pushing the button before it can be fully disabled.
The car comes with two keys — a standard key and a "TracKey" which maximizes performance and deletes all creature comforts. Fire the car using the TracKey and Sport mode is enabled in the steering and stability control systems, the idle gets big-cam lumpy and the throttle calibration takes on an honesty that replicates an actual connection between the pedal and the throttle body. There's also a programmable two-step launch control.
If you are a hard-core Mustang racer who wants something you can occasionally drive on the street or to shows, this Laguna Seca is the car you have been waiting for. You will not be disappointed. Call Blue Marlin Motors today and get a car that's an honest all-day track machine that you can drive home!
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STOCK/INV. NUMBER:
C229257
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