Ecoboost track "functional" parts thread.

[EcoSwag1990]

Figured I'd post up the track parts we just released. Our brake cooling kit.

Don't want to flood this thread, but if you want to read more check it out here.

http://www.mustang6g.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16947

Also as someone who has some pretty significant road course/race experience, to make any turbo car survive on track for a length of time you can't do enough cooling mods.

Intercooler upgrade is a must, would also look into an aftermarket radiator. I would imagine Mishimoto will come out with something soon enough as they are supporting this platform. I also would recommend having a tune just for the track with reasonable boost levels. For guys who run in any kind of hotter climates I'd recommend mixing some 100 octane fuel at the bare minimum.

There is nothing harder on a vehicle then a 30 minute sessions of thrashing. Turbo car's are a completely different animal out there.

Good call on Mishimoto making an aftermarket radiator in addition to their intercooler . I haven't posted about it since I've been so busy/lazy lately, but the guys at Mishimoto had me by their facility in New Castle last Friday. They wanted to do some R&D on my ecobeast to see if there are any differences between my auto and their manual's radiator setup. The guys there were awesome and extremely knowledgeable.

On a side note:
I got a tour of the facility which was very clean and modern, got to take a look at a couple of their EB products like the intercooler and what they had so far for their CAI which was very nice and would likely be my first choice, and also got a joy ride in their full bolt-on 2015 WRX which was incredibly torquey. When I got there they had the triple yellow EB PP up on a lift in their photo/video staging area to take some model shots of their new catch can system.

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[Impulsed7]

doesn't the ecoboost performance pack already have the bigger radiator?

And edit: Vinny, I would be willing to test those brake cooling ducts at VIR this summer.

 

[Vinny@JLTPerformance]

Good call on Mishimoto making an aftermarket radiator in addition to their intercooler . I haven't posted about it since I've been so busy/lazy lately, but the guys at Mishimoto had me by their facility in New Castle last Friday. They wanted to do some R&D on my ecobeast to see if there are any differences between my auto and their manual's radiator setup. The guys there were awesome and extremely knowledgeable.

On a side note:
I got a tour of the facility which was very clean and modern, got to take a look at a couple of their EB products like the intercooler and what they had so far for their CAI which was very nice and would likely be my first choice, and also got a joy ride in their full bolt-on 2015 WRX which was incredibly torquey. When I got there they had the triple yellow EB PP up on a lift in their photo/video staging area to take some model shots of their new catch can system.

I've used quite a few of there products over the years working at a speed shop previously that specialized not only in road race cars but in Subaru's and Evo's. They are great to deal with and have good products at very reasonable prices. Hard to beat the lifetime warranty on the radiators too.

I actually run their Cross flow(dual pass?) radiator on my personal race car (S/C Miata).

Anyway now that I work at a shop that we have some competing products, take that for what it's worth for a ringing endorsement.

 

[Vinny@JLTPerformance]

doesn't the ecoboost performance pack already have the bigger radiator?

And edit: Vinny, I would be willing to test those brake cooling ducts at VIR this summer.

It may, I'll be honest I was using pretty general turbo track car opinions there. Even if it's larger someone will find a way to improve it.

I'll PM you.

 

[EcoSnake]

Figured I'd post up the track parts we just released. Our brake cooling kit.

Don't want to flood this thread, but if you want to read more check it out here.

http://www.mustang6g.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16947

Also as someone who has some pretty significant road course/race experience, to make any turbo car survive on track for a length of time you can't do enough cooling mods.

Intercooler upgrade is a must, would also look into an aftermarket radiator. I would imagine Mishimoto will come out with something soon enough as they are supporting this platform. I also would recommend having a tune just for the track with reasonable boost levels. For guys who run in any kind of hotter climates I'd recommend mixing some 100 octane fuel at the bare minimum.

There is nothing harder on a vehicle then a 30 minute sessions of thrashing. Turbo car's are a completely different animal out there.

Looks great.
Thanks for adding!!!

 

[JoeC1982]

Speaking of hoods i think the GT350 hood is lower than the regular Ecoboost hood and would look great. I wonder how much it will cost though.

 

[Impulsed7]

From ford at the gt350 release. the hood and headlights sit 1" lower at the front, and you would have to re-do the whole front to get all that to fit. Aluminum panels for fenders and hood, carbon fiber radiator surround, so probably really really prohibitively expensive.

 

[EcoSnake]

From ford at the gt350 release. the hood and headlights sit 1" lower at the front, and you would have to re-do the whole front to get all that to fit. Aluminum panels for fenders and hood, carbon fiber radiator surround, so probably really really prohibitively expensive.

Idk the hood appears to be the same overall shape. I'm guessing the front bumper is the only part needing changed for the oem gt350 hood. Maybe headlights to.

But I'm sure someone can adapt an aftermarket version. Ecoboost has room to lower the hood profile.

 

[BmacIL]

Don't know for sure, but with more torque and fewer power strokes per engine revolution, a turbo four compareed to a N/A V6 is likely to have greater torsional vibration of the crankshaft. Therefore the heavier flywheel would help offset/absorb some of that.

Maybe that's the logic. It would then make sense that any low cylinder, high torque engine would have this issue, and since turbos make tons of torque, they'd typically be worse than a N/A engine of similar power (which would be lower torque, and higher RPM).

That's my guess.

-T

In addition to the good point of vibration (crank damper is there for that mostly, but flywheel helps), a bigger reason is to increase rotational inertia. If you had a super light flywheel, every time you change gear your engine speed would come down faster than you'd like and you wouldn't want to keep burning fuel to keep it spooled up. As we know, that is the enemy of a turbo car, so having a heavier flywheel increases the inertia which prevents the engine from slowing to an undesirable degree during gear changes. The downside is that it also takes more energy to spool up due to the high inertia. Lesser of two evils.

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