Never been impressed with the output of the 350. Sure it handles, but et's like a slug. If it was making 600 it should trap 123-125 all day. Need 4:30's minimum.
A 7.3 big block Mach 1 bumped to 530 HP or so would sell rings around a "track car". There are still many of us "dinosaurs" roaming the earth who eat small mammals in driving gloves and scarfs.
12.5 at 117 is seriously under performing, and the track car excuse is still an excuse. It should be in the high 11"s about 121-123 with no drop off in track manners with that P to W......especially if the block and head changes for the better are true.....5 years is long enough and the price...
Just drop in the 3.5 ecoboost in near Raptor tune, just find a way to make it sound good. Bump the 5.2 to 490 hp and turn up the 2.3 to RS spec. All bases covered.
I'd like to do a thought experiment.
Take two identically powered cars, say GT500's, equip one with the DCT and the other with an MT, identically geared, rowed by Evan Smith. Run them down the quarter mile. How much faster is the DCT.
My guess would be 2 tenths of a second at most. Now do it...
That's how you start to look at the magnitude of a problem. If you thought I was trying to solve a problem this massive on a Mustang forum than who is the deranged one? As a post mentioned above, this does not take into account the step up, step down, and transmission losses which are variable...
Ok, so some quick math.
The US uses 385,000,000 gallons of gasoline per day in 2015.
1 gallon of gasoline is the energy equivalent of 33.7 kilo watt hrs.
So, 33.7 x 385,000,000 is 13,008,200,000 kilo watt hrs per day in just gasoline. A coal fired plant is about 10% more efficient than a ICE...
How about you refute him with facts. We have cities experiencing brownouts and blackouts. EVs plugged in by the 10s of millions will make it worse. We consume millions of barrels per day of motor fuel. How many megawatts is that going to take to replace. Do the math.
EV has been around as long as ICE. Battery physics can only go so far. I don't see a battery recharge for a 300 mile range in a pickup truck in 2 minutes happening in anyone posting in this forums lifetime. And coal is great for power plants of the stationary kind, cheap, plentiful, energy...
My hopes are fading quickly, and GM has Coyote engines to study to make their DOHC an improved version. And if the spy photos of the Vette are any indication, its going to be gorgeous too. They will sell the hell out of them. I've been bleeding Ford blue my whole life, and believe me it pains me...
Really, what the hell is taking so long. A mid engine Vette is going to be roaming the streets by the time this thing is out. What is harder to design? And they are probably going to be close enough in cost to cross shop. If the Vette has a 5.5 quad cam (before the turbos) it will have a better...