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I am not pretending to have the exact numbers as I stated in my post. The process of thought was What I was trying to illustrate. I am unsure of g2g sales percentages and how many of those sales make it to this forum. But you can see, the numbers in the pole are significant because each...

10% of them show up here which is only 35.

I understand the need for "stock for stock"comparison but my curiosity gets the best of me. I'd love to know what difference the "easy to change" parts make. In contrast, tires are expendable. They also make a much larger difference in handling than anyone wants to admit. Unfortunately, they...

Probability is about perspective but we can get some absolutes. Yes, sampling here will have bias if you try to represent it as a proportion of the whole. However, being an engineer that uses stats regularly, that's not what caught my attention. Please excuse these numbers, for they are only...

Ah that explains why I couldn't find one. I was stuck between that and the FP 460. This doesn't help.

I said this exact statement last week in response to Fatguy. Now it's at the dealer.

No doubt but they're not being made anymore from what I can tell.

You know I don't know what to say to that. At no point did they see an issue with any of these results. Just wow. The s195s were not great handling cars compared to the competition. The s550s pull ~1g on a skidpad.

Terrible comparison. The PP1 needed to be manual and the PP2 didn't get a dry day for dragging. They simply published what they had accuracy be damned. How did they end up with times WORSE than the base 15 gt?

Yeah this really needs to come to a head!

It's really easy to diagnose. Bore scoping is a simple process. It's also easy for Ford to ask for proof, so I doubt it's the dealer pulling one over. I doubt Ford has a fix because they haven't even acknowledged the issue.

Could just do an E85 tune and call it a day. You shouldn't need any extra parts for this.

That's the way it should be. Checking the oil on a motor that just ran is going to have misleading reading. If the dipstick reads low after only 10% is "missing", then that 10% is probably still covering the rest of the internals.

Just ask them what an oil control ring's job is and why is it not doing it.

A professional devil's advocate, if you will.

I'd at least bore scope that. That sounds like everyone else's that failed.

I have an MT82 car so I don't think it's drive train related. 2300RPM seems to be the magical number for this issue, but I am crossing my fingers hoping it's something else.

My 18 sounds exactly like CJ's F150 at the same 2300 RPM. It's also in the dealership right now.

Alpha chassis isn't superior. Both chassis are very similar in stiffness characteristics, with Ford traditionally tuning suspensions for American tracks and Chevy tuning hard for Euro tracks over the last decade or so. Yeah, Alpha does some neat stuff at autocross but that's not a reason I'd...

Are you sticking with coyote? Your best choice may be to buy the internals and have a good local machine shop put it together. As far as I can find, there is no Ford built coyote crate motor with forged internals right now. Edit: For off the shelf purposes, AMS offers a built shortblock