andrewtac
Well-Known Member
To each his own I guess. I thought factory mustangs made over 350 ftlbs by 4000. And a gt350 boring,There are plenty of times I would just rather the go and not look or sound like a goon driving around causing attention at 7000rpm. Sure I hit a few back road runs and have some fun and love the sound and feel at redline. But that is literially a couple minutes a week.
Then being an automatic, as I give it a lot of throttle to get to reasonable torque, it will downshift multiple times and is annoying for just the fun run to soccer practice and work and such. I just really miss the low throttle torque of the tuned 4cyl cars I had in the part. My wife and daughter were so put back when I got the GT as the lack of power. They are not used to reving and lots of throttle. I'm getting used to it. Use the paddle shifters and lots of throttle input. Much more then I would think I would need to get the go I'm expecting. I do realize turbo cars sort of cheat the power at part throttle by ramping up plenty of boost at low throttle.
2nd gear is about 60 and 3rd is 100mph at red line. So for me the extra power that a 350 manifold would give me over the truck manifold is only in first and second and very very rarely third. Honestly probably only when doing data logs. And first gear redlines instantly anyway, so really only second gear redline is ever seen. CERTAINLY 4th, 5th and 6th will never see the upper end power.
I just think plenty of people have not have the experince with high torque engines and fun they can offer. And actually during my racing years, that setup could be pretty fast around road courses too. Also, I went for the Hellcat dodge ride-a-long at a car show and the gt350. Oh my god the gt350 was so boring after the hellcat ride. The instant on demand torque was a blast!
And 10speed even more reason to wind it up.
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