Iād be sick out of my mind if I blew the numbers matching engine in a new GT500. Heāll forever be upside down on itās value.
Iāve watched his vids in the past, I donāt think heās a douche. Just a guy who got caught up in the HP race and suffered the consequences (severe in this case). But now...
563 engine dyno HP. The VooDoo makes 526hp measured on the far more restrictive dyno with all accessories and emission equipment attached. To put this in further perspective, my built 415ci SBC made 553hp on an engine dyno, the same type of dyno the 7.3 made 563hp. On a dynojet, that same engine...
He was on a throughly prepped track, and wasnāt spinning, even at IIRC, the max rpm setting.
The DCT, like a regular manual, can only adjust clutch slippage to altar the launch. Iām not sure if slipping the clutch more, or the opposite, will gain much in the 60ā.
JMHO
10.66 is hauling ass.
But..1.727 60ā is going to be a problem. I doubt the DCT trans can allow much better, no matter how much you modify the engine. Red eye with a torque converter is going to be a problem.
Your assumption makes no sense. He claims to have ordered a carbon edition, but are you saying he secretly had on order a base GT500, too, didnāt tell anyone, took delivery and lies by saying he just found it?
Is that your story? Or is it something else?
Really, what do you think happened?
Tomster,
Without other evidence, I assume this is the āstoryā. If you have something factual to dispute it, tell us. Was this GT500 already spoken for, and he slithered in and āstoleā from the person who preordered it? What are the other possibilities? Can Ford corporate force a dealer to do...
I donāt understand this thread.
Ford dealer orders a basic GT500 for their general inventory.
A guy discovers this car is about to be delivered to that dealer, and is unsold.
He makes a deal to buy it.
GT500 future owners, who have ordered their cars find out, and are outraged.
Why?
My Porsche 991 Turbo S has PDK (DCT).
In launch mode, itās basically a clutch dump at 5500 rpm. Itās very violent, but the car weighs 3500 lbs, and is AWD. 0-60 is in the mid 2 second range. The transmission is near bullet proof.
The problem I see with the GT500 is it weighs 700 lbs more, and...
I watched the engineer speak about this new 7.3 truck engine.
He stated that they had listened to the commercial truck market that wanted an engine that made great low rpm torque, was reliable, fuel efficient and easy to work on in the field.
Thatās it. Straight from the source.
Yeah, youāre probably right. All this Ford presentation about it being a new truck engine is really just propaganda to hide the fact itās a new race engine. Because there is a huge market at the local wrecking yards for die hard racers to one day pick these engines out of dump trucks, to be used...
You have even an iota of proof for this statement? You seem to be locked into some fantasy that this bull dozer engine is a secret race engine. That is laughable.
Just do the swap. Contact your local Swap-O-Engine, give them your credit card, and in a week youāll have your 7.3 whatever block mustang smoking that single track rear end.
NASCAR rules prohibit over head cam engines, period. Ford never tried to convince NASCAR to use the Coyote. It has nothing to do with B/S, or any other claims you make. This information is readily available.
The old Windsor engine was dropped along time ago. Ford designed a special NASCAR...
^ Iām not ābrainwashedā, and I donāt think youāre right at all.
You seem to believe the old Windsor small block is somehow superior to the modular 4 valve.
That is laughable. Sure, old hot rodders are still using the old pushrod engine in old fox bodies. Itās cheap, plentiful and has decades...
Before I sold my GT350, I was seriously considering their 700-800hp pump fuel package. These 1000-1400hp packages are cool, but youād never hook up the tires, and if you did you better have a rear section made from unobtainium alloy. Iād never fear racing against one in my Turbo S, but only from...
The OP will never attempt to install this tractor engine (let alone actually buy one) into his mustang.
There will be ZERO aftermarket support, as there will be no demand.
It wonāt be emissions compliant, so heāll never be able to register it for public road use.
Good luck on getting any...