ddozier
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While it will be nice to know the weight and the HP of the car in the end it will not matter much as whatever sanctioning body you choose to run the car in will have a set of rules to effectively balance the performance of this Mustang to every other car in the class. Unless they setup a class of their own but with 50 cars being built there will not be a class set aside for the car unless Ford makes it happen with big dollar influence much like Mopar did with the ACRx Vipers for the Viper Cup in 2010.That is in fact the limiting factor, assembling parts for 50 cars, build all at once, with limited resources to go around. So they can't build as many cars as they have buyers. I do hear some dealers are adding ADM, but race car market is a lot thinner that street car market, so probably not all that much room there. Ford Performance wants to see these cars on the track, not in a museum!
No word on weight yet - hopeful they can get down to 3,400 or less. But they have given no spec on weight or on motor HP other than one comment I got from team member that motor will be 100 hp + up from Boss 302's.
Anyone know what the hp of the boss 302s and r were/are?
Once the cars are built then the sanctioning bodies will test a car or two to determine the class and the weight penalty to employ to balance the car to the rest of the field. Hell the S550 GT's already pay a huge weight penalty to run in IMSA or SCCA Touring series. As soon as you try and run something with even more power and even lighter than the average track build they are just going to add a restrictor, weight or both, or limit you in another way like tire size. The S550 in SCCA T1 have a min wt of 3450, add 100lbs if you have the PP brakes, change the intake and they add a restrictor to the throttle body. It is in the sanctioning bodies best interest to keep the cars as close to equal as possible or everyone feels cheated and no one shows up to race.
All these factory cars do is get a set of parts introduced into a series that are either improvements to the OE spec of the production car or normally not allowed to be changed from OE. Once the sanctioning body approves the package in general you are free to build to that spec so it opens up that parts set to non-factory car builders. Use the non-factory parts and you have to pay the same penalty associated with the spec.
I am glad Ford Racing is building the FP350S it brings more cars to the party and opens up a few options to guys who want to build their own cars. It also lets guys who do not want to build their own cars have a safe way to enter the hobby provided they have the cash. This is not an inexpensive hobby and it takes deeeeeeeeeeeeeep pockets to campaign a competitive car, so I for one am happy someone is willing to do it. I just know I can not afford too, but I do love to play race car driver on the weekends at the same tracks the big boys race on.
Dave
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