2016 GT350 36,800 miles??

[kammrk]

Just bought a clean 2016 GT350 with 36,600 miles. Drove it home about 300 miles car drove/ran fine, I am taking it to my local Ford dealer next week for oil chg. and general look over. I noticed a little condensation at the exhaust with a little oil/carbon on the ground when I start it any concern there? Got on it once car has a lot of power, does 36,900 miles seem to much for this car to still power/drive it to its potential every so often? also having it tuned/dyno'd next month any advise as to what I should go for on the tune? Thanks to all that reply.

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[torque124]

Honestly, for the amount of power you get with a tune, I would keep it stock another 2 years, you still have power train warranty until 2021.
37k miles is fine, keep an eye on oil and enjoy it!

Check if oil cooler lines recall has been done or not, it is probably important.
I have not noticed carbon on the ground on my 2016 track pack or this R, but my ground is asphalt, so it's black, so....

 

[JAJ]

Just bought a clean 2016 GT350 with 36,600 miles. Drove it home about 300 miles car drove/ran fine, I am taking it to my local Ford dealer next week for oil chg. and general look over. I noticed a little condensation at the exhaust with a little oil/carbon on the ground when I start it any concern there? Got on it once car has a lot of power, does 36,900 miles seem to much for this car to still power/drive it to its potential every so often? also having it tuned/dyno'd next month any advise as to what I should go for on the tune? Thanks to all that reply.

Condensation in the exhaust and water drops below the mufflers are all normal with the GT350. The mufflers have small holes in them so condensation can drain out. I wouldn't worry about the mileage either - it's still young.

I'm with @torque124 on the tuning thing - don't mess with it. Ford did a spectacular job getting as much out the engine as they could while maintaining reliability. This isn't a Mustang GT with wide safety margins and lots of untapped power left on the table - the factory took it as far as it can safely go and then they stopped. Tuners can move the power band around a bit and change the driver demand curve to make it feel different, but in terms of total power output, it's hard to get more than Ford delivers.

Also, it's not that tunes are unreliable, but spun bearings and other problems we read about on the forums are often associated with tunes. Not always, but enough to be cautious.

 

[kammrk]

Sounds good thanks guy's, guess I will hold off on the Tune. Anything eles you guys can advise for H.P. or performance gains I can do that is not major or risk to engine?

 

[torque124]

Sounds good thanks guy's, guess I will hold off on the Tune. Anything eles you guys can advise for H.P. or performance gains I can do that is not major or risk to engine?

Honestly, nothing short of forced induction will bring any kind of improvement that you will feel from the seat of the pants.... The only thing I changed on my track pack was to add a Airaid dry filter (similar to the Ford performance blue filter), and I *think* I got a bit of extra noise out of it, if anything; intake noise.
That, and an oil separator for passenger side (I can also argue the usefulness of this one, but for the sake of sanity on the forums, I'd say it's good); the driver side will not catch anything at all ...

 

[Shift]

Sounds good thanks guy's, guess I will hold off on the Tune. Anything eles you guys can advise for H.P. or performance gains I can do that is not major or risk to engine?

Do you mind me asking what exactly are you trying to do with the car, and why 526hp isn't enough?

Just FYI, a replacement motor is $25k from Ford and that's not including labor.

 

[rfcs550]

Do you mind me asking what exactly are you trying to do with the car, and why 526hp isn't enough?

Just FYI, a replacement motor is $25k from Ford and that's not including labor.

I would not tune or put a blower on this engine for it voids the warranty and defeats the design.

I have a GT350 2016 track pak with 21k miles stock (except for resonator delete and catch can). Motortrend did a dyno on the car recently and it puts 490 HP to the wheels, which translates to roughly 580 HP at the flywheel.

Believe or not, a performance mod that I think is overlooked, and I went this route, was to replace the stock wheels with fully forged aluminum (Signature Performance) wheels that reduces unsprung weight significantly of roughly 12 pounds or more per wheel. The car feels quicker, lighter, and more agile.

 

[Tomster]

Wow, a lot of very good advice here. However just a bit of trivia.... those holes in the exhaust tips are "tock drainage holes". I thought that was funny when Jammal Hameedi explained that to Jay Lenno.

OP, I would do as everyone has described above.

 

[Shift]

I would not tune or put a blower on this engine for it voids the warranty and defeats the design.

I have a GT350 2016 track pak with 21k miles stock (except for resonator delete and catch can). Motortrend did a dyno on the car recently and it puts 490 HP to the wheels, which translates to roughly 580 HP at the flywheel.

Believe or not, a performance mod that I think is overlooked, and I went this route, was to replace the stock wheels with fully forged aluminum (Signature Performance) wheels that reduces unsprung weight significantly of roughly 12 pounds or more per wheel. The car feels quicker, lighter, and more agile.

Before I bought the car, I thought I was happy with everything. When I got the car and I found out the wheels were not only cast, but rolling bricks basically, I had to change it out for some real forged wheels. I might have done small cosmetic changes here and there, but performance wise the only thing that's needed is some lighter, true forged wheels in my opinion. That still rings true for me 3 years later.

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