"It's a SEMA car, yes, but it's a driver." Neil Tjin on his purple widebody Ford Mustang | The Online Automotive Marketplace | Hemmings (2024)

Some of you might assume that the picture above of a Ford Mustang in bright purple paint, tires nearly rubbing the top of the widebody fenders, is all but useless at performing its original mission of driving. Not so, says Neil Tjin (pronounced like “chin”), founder of TJIN Edition and the man behind this 2019 Ford Mustang EcoBoost selling on Hemmings Auctions. This car can drive, just like a stock Mustang but with a few extra visual and mechanical goodies. It was one of five custom Mustangs shown by the manufacturer at the 2018 SEMA show, and it’s been owned by Neil since.

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We caught up with Neil in a phone interview to learn how this one-of-a-kind Mustang came to be, who actually designed it, and – when it comes to aftermarket suspensions – why he prefers air springs to coilovers. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Hemmings: I’ll start with an easy question, but it might help some people just looking at the pictures. The Mustang does not drive with the body sitting on the wheels, scraping the ground, right?

Tjin: It’s on air suspension. So the pictures in the listing, there are some that were lowered and then ride height is just above the tire. There’s three settings: stock height, which is basically all the way up; ride height, which is to the tire; and then there’s slammed show height, which is all the way down.

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caption=” Note the low-but-practical drive height, compared to the slammed stance in the lead photo.” photo_credit=”” alt=””] Note the low-but-practical drive height, compared to the slammed stance in the lead photo.

Hemmings: Okay, good to get that out of the way. Let’s talk about how the car came to be. Ford showed five custom Mustangs at the 2018 SEMA show; how did that come about on your part?

Tjin: I’ve worked with Ford since 2009. Including the year after, when we did the Ranger, I’ve done about 18 Ford builds. So 2018, and this a true story and he won’t want you to repeat it, but Collin, now he’s a 12 year old, but he was 10 at the time…

Hemmings: This was one of my questions. Did your son design the car?

Tjin: He beat me. He’s too humble to admit it but yeah. So in 2018 there’s the Mustang. I ended up doing more of a race theme. I used to work at Vortech so I had the Vortech supercharger, 18s, carbon fiber wheels, carbon Anderson kit, that was my proposal. Ford liked it, but didn’t love it.

I’ve had a long relationship with Vaughn Gitten since the D1 days, so probably mid-2000s. I’ve done a bunch of Ford builds with Vaughn. Collin’s been into drifting since he was four or five. Every year at SEMA he’s always in the first car on Friday that goes and does the demos with Vaughn. So we reached out to Vaughn, who owns RTR as you know, would you be interested in doing a Mustang with Collin?

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Collin picks the purple color, picks the gold wheels, the raspberry brakes. No joke, it’s under TJIN Edition but we presented Ford with two different proposals. They know Collin, the SEMA team, because we took him to SEMA every year, but anyway at the end of the day they ended up picking his. So yeah, he had a big influence on it.

We have a relationship with Recaro, they did the all-black leather. We had a relationship with Kicker, full audio – kind of like in high school, you’d cruise up and down South Beach – so it had a bunch of bass. And then we ended up working with Full-Race, they did the turbo kit. BorgWarner turbo, bigger intercooler, new piping, bigger downpipe, and a Ford Performance exhaust.

Hemmings: Do you have an idea of how much power it makes?

Tjin: Back then it was a new EcoBoost and there weren’t many tunes. It was a very mild tune… say conservatively you’re about 75 to 100 [horsepower] above stock. But now you can do Cobb and Mountune and all this, you could probably hit 550 to 600. The only thing about Mustangs is that the fuel pump cuts off, and I wouldn’t recommend changing the fuel flow because then you have to go with injectors, pistons, rods, blah, blah, blah. I never updated the tune, I don’t need 550 with my kids in the car. But now, whoever buys it, you can reach out to a custom tuner or Mountune or Cobb and probably get in the 500 range pretty easily with the BorgWarner turbo.

Hemmings: When you say mild tune to me, that says driveability. Is that the same case with the other mods, like driving at stock height? Maybe you can’t drive it around Michigan, but Miami or SoCal, no trouble?

Tjin: Most of my cars are on air [suspensions], so stock height’s a little high to me. But I’ve been to Michigan, I’ve been to Chicago for shows. When I have it at ride height it’s to the tire; I’d probably go up maybe an inch or two. You have to remember, stock height the Mustang probably has five to six inches of travel. I don’t usually drive anything at stock height, but if you were to drive in Michigan or Chicago, I’d probably set it at what they called in my day a one-finger or two-finger gap.

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Hemmings: What I’m getting at, you see a SEMA car, maybe you don’t want to daily it, but this is something you can drive, you can take it out on a weekend, you can drive to a show if you want to.

Tjin: Dude I’ve driven it, my longest trip – right after SEMA, after the [TJIN Edition] Tour, we took it to San Francisco. So, seven hours from LA, and we drove. That was the first question after the auction went up. It’s a driver. It’s got all high-end parts. It’s got top-of-the-line air lift. I mean, the Baer brakes alone are almost 12 G’s – it’s got the Grizzlies in the front, the 6S in the back. Got your top of the line Michelin, Forgeline built the one-off center locks.

Now, any car I have, I don’t drive the Mustang every day, but I drive the Ranger every day. My wife drives the Hyundai every day. I would say it’s a great weekend cruiser, you want to go to the movies, go out to dinner. And let’s say you’re in Miami and you do want to drive to Orlando for a show? Yeah. Exactly what you’re saying.

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Hemmings: Then how does it drive, compared to a stock Mustang? Compared to an EcoBoost or a GT, what do you dial in for your taste?

Tjin: My Mustang drives better than stock. I would tell you this: Air Lift, stating in ’08, ’09, it was a work in progress. It has changed dramatically. Now, the bags don’t leak, they’re [made of] better materials, all the air management’s all Wi-Fi, all digital, no switches. I would say, to be honest – I’ve done five Mustang GTs for Ford and one EcoBoost, two for Vortech, and one for Pennzoil. So let’s say I’ve done nine Mustangs in the last 10 years, and I’ve done air on four. I would take air – I think coilovers are nice, but as you know, we’re both older, and no one’s adjusting coilovers, we’re not in high school. You’re nuts. I would say with the newer Air Lift stuff since about 2016, ride quality, no joke, let’s be conservative and say it’s an eight out of 10. I’d say it’s nine out of 10. The new Air Lift stuff, it’s phenomenal, all their hard lines, the compressors.

Hemmings: You’re calling me out for being old but I’m 43 so you’re not wrong.

Tjin: I’m 42. I used to stop at a gas station and raise and lower my coilovers. You’re nuts. That’s why you have the air suspension [now]. I’ll give you a perfect example, my green Genesis, if you go on my Instagram page. Dude I couldn’t go over a speed bump. It would bottom out, my oil pan, my side rockers, my front lip. That Mustang, as low as it is, I could go over speedbumps, I could drive through ditches. My driveway is angled, I just raise the car to 120 psi – all my air up – and then when I pull in I press the middle button and it goes back to 54. That’s it. It literally takes 30 seconds. That’s it.

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Hemmings: So what’s the power delivery like?

Tjin: It’s good, it’s peppy. It’s not, I’m not gonna lie, it’s not mind-blowing. Honestly, it’s a cruiser. If you want it to be a little more peppy, now two years later there are a lot more tunes available.

Hemmings: Wait, let’s level-set though. You mentioned daily driving a 700 horsepower Camaro. If it’s up around 400 that’s close to the current GT in terms over overall power, even if the delivery is different.

Tjin: That’s what I’m saying; the delivery is different. It doesn’t have the “oh ****” 700 horsepower but it’s got enough pep if you’re on the freeway and you want to step on it to get by someone, if that makes sense. Pop into third gear, punch it, changes lanes and you’re back to cruising. Now if you’re in a 700 horsepower Camaro, you drop it into third you’re spinning your tires. I think the GT feels a little harder, like when you downshift. The EcoBoost transmission doesn’t quite give you that jerky feeling, if that makes sense.

Hemmings: Anything else?

Tjin: It’s a SEMA car, yes, but it’s driver. It’s not a show car. I think those days, in my opinion at least, are gone. It’s a driver. It has a clean title. It is 50-state legal. I haven’t driven it much, probably in the last six to eight to months, because I knew I was going to sell it. If I could keep it to give it to my son I would, but I have to sell it and the Ranger to build this year’s cars.

[For the full listing, details, more more photos, check out the 2019 Ford Mustang EcoBoost TJIN Edition at Hemmings Auctions.]

"It's a SEMA car, yes, but it's a driver." Neil Tjin on his purple widebody Ford Mustang | The Online Automotive Marketplace | Hemmings (2024)
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