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Running with no front splitter? why?

With respect kz, if you had experience assembling or overhauling reciprocating engines you would see that is incorrect. You'd see the clueless owner that thinks they are doing their new engine a favor by babying it at low power, then after a while complains of excess oil consumption. An...

Make them put it on a lift and look underneath! I've bought a 350 and a 350R from separate dealers and guess what? BOTH had the splitter installed incorrectly, missing most of the critical fasteners! PPF/Ceramic/paint correction = IMHO insane waste of money. It's a Ford, not a Ferrari. If it...

As was mentioned, Ford makes a car for you! As a bonus they spent millions on development, engineering, and testing so that it continues to scream at least past the 60,000 mile powertrain warranty. That would be the "full send"

I think the diff overheats before the engine oil regardless. I believe all cars have a diff temp sensor except for the '15 models. You may be able to activate the diff temp display with FORScan. With cooler engine oil, the pressure (which is an actual measurement) will be higher so in theory the...

This. And don't run 20wt oil on the track. The viscosity (and then oil pressure) and film strength get dangerously low at those temperatures. Also as you get faster you'll need to add a differential cooler unless you're only doing a few laps. With an IRS there's nowhere for the heat to go and it...

Was the oil temperature the same? You didn't say. Since this car has a real oil cooler and not the oil heating spam can, it takes a long time for the oil to heat up. If BOTH times the temperature was the same, only then can you figure there's a problem e.g. sensor issue. You need to look at the...

I know it's a joke but 75w90 is roughly equivalent to 10w40 engine oil in viscosity. The voodoo is only slightly different from the coyote and it specs 50 weight oil - and the reason is the application, not because they gave it the clearances of a tractor engine. If you're going to run at high...

I think the market is softening some. I just picked up my new '18 R with elec., black roof, from a dealer who initially had it on the showroom floor with an absurd ADM, but came down to earth and even well under MSRP. Out the door including all of their junk fees, tags, etc was 66,595. (MSRP was...

Your oil viscosity is dropping as the oil temperature rises. The best solution is to add a real oil cooler (large air/oil heat exchanger). You should run 5w-50 on the track regardless (the reason all the ford performance vehicles require 50 weight oil). Your 30 weight oil is probably pushing...

Why is this still happening? Went 700 miles out of state to buy a new '18 R (screaming deal thanks to @lightrules ) As a condition of delivery I had the dealer put the car in the air so I could check the splitter install. In the first glance I noticed all 4 of the 45 deg screws were not...

There's a perception that the GT350/R is overpriced for a car that's not much faster than a GT but it's not the whole story. The engine is my favorite thing about the car but setting that aside, consider the amount of upgrades you get in the 350 to withstand track conditions...the car is a...

Clarify some more what your intentions are. Go to the track a fair amount? 350R or 1LE. In addition to the mods you mentioned for your GT, you'll also need to add heat exchangers for the engine oil, tranny, and diff if you want to got fast for more than 10-15 minutes. For street car/canyon...

No doubt incremental improvements can always be made if you're chasing lap times or racing. I'm simply stating that out of the box a GT350 will run the whole fuel tank if you want without overheating on a road course. It is already track proof. Without the major upgrades I mentioned before, a GT...

I don't have much experience with autos but I'm sure at the minimum you'll need a giant cooler to avoid limp mode. Towing is not even in the same universe of stress as track driving though. The differential cooling hardware alone is $2k, and without that one component you'll be in limp mode or...