New Shelby American GT350

[robvas]

Junk. This is just a lesser supersnake.

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[Strokerswild]

Shelby American has always taken Ford products and done modifications to them. The usual process is that a customer buys a Ford Mustang from a Ford dealer and has Ford deliver it to Shelby. Shelby modifies the customer car based on the customer's order with them.

Ford produced Shelby's are developed outside of the regular Ford engineering group by Ford Performance, a completely separate engineering team responsible for the Ford GT's, the Shelby's and the Ford factory race cars.

Think of it this way: FP starts with a body in white and designs the parts needed to make it into a sports car. Shelby American starts with a street Mustang and adds a bunch of special parts to it.

Which was exactly the case in the '60s as well. Shelby doing what Shelby does.

I always find it odd how people think the original Shelbys were some mystical creation, more than a modified, run of the mill Mustang that they were.

 

[Mjc1241]

On 7g, someone asked why did they use an updated version of the Voodoo? Well, since Shelby has always used a Ford engine and Ford no longer makes the Voodoo and will not, it's pretty obvious that Shelby American is going to use the existing Ford engine in 2025 SA 350. I dig the heritage of it coming full circle sixty years later from the original introduction in 1965. BTW, did anyone else pay attention to the collection of cars in the background of the Hagerty video? Very nice of collection of many performance cars both old and new.

 

[robvas]

They don't even change the shocks/struts...

Performance Features

• • 810 horsepower supercharger system
• • Shelby by Borla cat-back exhaust and tips
• • Front and rear lowering springs
• • Front and rear sway bars
• • Short throw shifter (manual only)
• • 20" X 9.5" (F) 20" X 11" (R) flow forged alloy wheel
• • Shelby spec performance tires

 

[BlkMach10510]

Junk. This is just a lesser supersnake.

Looks like if you get the GT350R version you get the same hp as a SuperSnake, 830 hp.

 

[robvas]

On 7g, someone asked why did they use an updated version of the Voodoo?

Easy: Shelby doesn't build mod motors, they'd never get it EPA certified, and Ford had nothing to do with this.

 

[BlkMach10510]

GT350- 480 hp
GT350 S/C 810 hp
GT350R- 830 hp

 

[Bikeman315]

Which was exactly the case in the '60s as well. Shelby doing what Shelby does.

I always find it odd how people think the original Shelbys were some mystical creation, more than a modified, run of the mill Mustang that they were.

That's because they probably weren't around then. The original Mustangs were built like shit and the Shelby's weren't much better. But they got better and better and we fell in love with them.

 

[robvas]

Looks like if you get the GT350R version you get the same hp as a SuperSnake, 830 hp.

Just looking at the website site by side, you don't get:

• Shelby extreme cooling system
  (radiator, heat exchanger)
• • Performance half shafts
• • One-piece drive shaft (manual only)
• • Hardened extended wheel studs
• • 20” forged magnesium alloy wheels
• • Shelby brake rotor upgrade (Vehicle retains factory brake calibers, color may vary)

Plus all the carbon fiber stuff (can be added though, it looks like)
Widebody front fascia
Hood pins
Side rockers
Fender vents

 

[Jasonb543]

Shelby purists should LOVE IT!!!

forget that whole voodoo abomination was ever a thing…

 

[BlkMach10510]

Just looking at the website site by side, you don't get:

• Shelby extreme cooling system
  (radiator, heat exchanger)
• • Performance half shafts
• • One-piece drive shaft (manual only)
• • Hardened extended wheel studs
• • 20” forged magnesium alloy wheels
• • Shelby brake rotor upgrade (Vehicle retains factory brake calibers, color may vary)

Plus all the carbon fiber stuff (can be added though, it looks like)
Widebody front fascia
Hood pins
Side rockers
Fender vents

So you get the hp and then hope you can stop it.

 

[Mjc1241]

They don't even change the shocks/struts...

Performance Features

• • 810 horsepower supercharger system
• • Shelby by Borla cat-back exhaust and tips
• • Front and rear lowering springs
• • Front and rear sway bars
• • Short throw shifter (manual only)
• • 20" X 9.5" (F) 20" X 11" (R) flow forged alloy wheel
• • Shelby spec performance tires

If they are using Dark Horse with the handling package setup, then one can argue that they don't need to upgrade the shocks/struts. There is an upgraded version of the Magneride shocks and struts that is offered from Steeda, but are essentially from Ford. They come stock on the GT350R and GT500. Along with that, I would assume that the Magneride controller is upgraded as well.

https://www.steeda.com/ford-genuine-40-1016-103-mustang-magneride-kit

 

[MAGS1]

If they are using Dark Horse with the handling package, then one can argue that they don't need to upgrade the shocks/struts. There is an upgraded version the Magneride shocks and struts that is offered from Steeda that essentially come from Ford. They come stock on the GT350R and GT500. Along with that, I would assume that the Magneride controller as well.

https://www.steeda.com/ford-genuine-40-1016-103-mustang-magneride-kit

It starts life as a GT, not a DH per the SA site.

 

[robvas]

If they are using Dark Horse with the handling package, setup, then one can argue that they don't need to upgrade the shocks/struts. There is an upgraded version the Magneride shocks and struts that is offered from Steeda that essentially come from Ford. They come stock on the GT350R and GT500. Along with that, I would assume that the Magneride controller as well.

https://www.steeda.com/ford-genuine-40-1016-103-mustang-magneride-kit

Their website says they are basing the MSRP off a 300A Mustang GT
I wonder if you could even send them a DH to convert

 

[Mjc1241]

Easy: Shelby doesn't build mod motors, they'd never get it EPA certified, and Ford had nothing to do with this.

I actually answered the question rhetorically in my quote.

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