This thread is getting weirder by the minute. Now there's discussion of plasma sprayed cylinder linings arriving in 2018. My 2008 BMW M3 had them and my 2011 Mustang GT (Coyote) had them. They've been in the Coyote and derivatives for more than a decade. The claim was and still is that you...
Gentlemen - this issue has nothing to do with crankcase pressure. It's high vacuum in the intake manifold when the throttle's closed and you're engine braking. The vacuum in the intake becomes vacuum in the cylinders and that pulls oil from the cylinder walls up past the piston rings into the...
This was a known problem back in the 1980's, so there's no reason for it to return now unless the latest generation of engineers didn't listen to the old guys. In the old days, there was a mechanical "dashpot" on the throttle shaft that slowed down the closing of the throttle, and hold it open...
Interesting. I thought that your "agenda" was to find out what people thought and I expect that you probably aren't surprised by the answers. After all, it's what forums are for and your question was perfectly rational and reasonable.
To the extent that there's discord in this GT350...
Well, I thought it was an interesting question. Let's do a bit of a mind experiment. Let's imagine that Ford offered the car we know as a GT350 in two versions - one called GT350 with Shelby's name and one called Mustang Super GT without Shelby's name. Only difference in construction is the...
I think his point is that with millions of users driving cars, failures of the usual twenty points of failure is vanishingly small. Doubling the number of points of failure to 40 when the failure rate's that close to zero won't change things much. And, if you're really concerned about it, you...
Correct. Without the spacer, the rim hits the suspension strut. Without the switch to GT350R hubs the wheel studs are too short to get nuts onto.
Now, that said, if you're just running it for street use, there are spacers that bolt onto the original hub and that have studs for bolting the...
Yes. I do it on my car. Install a set of GT350R front hubs, a pair of 38mm spacers, and everything fits so well that you might think the factory planned it that way. A 19x11 ET62 stock rear rim with a 38mm spacer gives you a 19x11 ET24 that works with stock lug nuts. It's dimensionally...
That's what I thought, but there's nothing in the Owner's Manual about it and the specified gearbox fluid for all Mustangs is the MT82's DCT fluid. It still didn't make sense to me so I found the Ford Mustang 2024 online spec sheet ()https://www.ford.com/cars/mustang/models/dark-horse/, and the...
There's definitely something happening at Ford. Just for laughs I looked at the Owner's Manual for the 2024 Mustang. The Dark Horse is included in the manual, but only a few references to it. No "Owner's Supplement" for this car. Also, it's got a mix of performance stuff that doesn't make...
For some people, the Shelby brand means something in and of itself - if it's got the Shelby name, it's unique or rare or something important. It's the label that matters.
For others, the Shelby brand is signal that it's different from the regular product. GT/CS's are different in one way...
You are correct. Only 2020 R's got them. AND, I'm pretty sure it was a clever way to get a factory part into the parts bin that would allow GT500 owners to switch to GT350 front brakes and 19" rims.
Well, sorta...
The "Shelby" products from Ford are developed by the Ford Performance division, not Ford itself. That division used to be called "SVT". I got a spectacularly clear picture of why that distinction matters when I switched from my supercharged 2011 GT to a 2014 GT500. EVERYTHING...
I understand the logic and I don't use them myself, but if you go to 16:48 in this video of AJ Hartman putting a splitter on his race car:, you'll see that bolt-on spacers don't seem to concern him:
They're pretty hard to miss:
Correct on all four. In case you're wondering, exhaust gas temperatures (EGT) is measured by the oxygen sensors as a safety measure. Too high and damage to the exhaust valves can occur.
Fair enough. The way I've looked at it is that FP engineers developed and qualified the Voodoo and then they turned it over to Ford to produce. Over time, an engineering group, which may not have been FP, made running changes to the engine. Quality seemed to be quite variable. Then, as the...
The problem with a Gen 1/Gen 2 designation is that there were component changes in the Voodoo from the beginning of the 2017 model year onwards. They changed a bunch of stuff, pistons, rings, bearings, fuel rails, oil filter (twice) and its housing (once) and so on. Changes came pretty much...