Enough with unsubstantiated Post of broken Engines

[Montoya]

You can add to that list cars I’ve owned with engine issues:

E46 M3- Rod bearings
991.1 GT3- Oiling issues, rod bearings, finger followers

High revving motors run closer to the ragged edge and have less tolerance for error in design and manufacturing. The two I listed above were supposedly manufacturing / supplier issues. Time has proven that to be true for the E46 for the most part, but the GT3 had a bunch of engineering updates later on with new rev motors.

It’s a pay to play, race motor for the street game and nobody is immune. Bottom line, you may get bit to enjoy these type of cars. I have owned a few and this is my first bite. Other than the inconvenience of it, with the way Ford has taken care of me I’m happy and have moved onto the enjoyment phase of my ownership with my ‘race’ motor.

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[Thrownaway]

2018 GT350R failed at 1100 miles on track. Motor replaced and ran fine till car was sold at 4500 miles. All track miles except 2000 break in miles. I don't think it is necessarily an indictment of all Voodoo motors but as I understand it the motors have been updated since. I loved the car as a track tool.Pic attached

 

[BlueCollarDaily]

I question how many of these 15-18 Gen 1 engines which have faulted since the introduction of the Gen 2 engine may have been urged along in failure in order to have the upgrade. Ford should have limited replacement to original Gen it was manufactured with.

Or buy the car back....was the horsepower increased as part up the upgraded replacement? Oh no thats right it was a stronger block...boom done a more complete admission of a durability issue could only be attained by a formal ford press release......
I still remeber the 62 year old man distraught as I waited to receive my new cars first new engine be pulled around to pick up.....he had waited his whole life for that GT350 and he had gotten the news from the tech the engine was shot.....people on this forum can make fun of him but he wanted his car with its hand built name plate....whole as he bought it he cherished that part....
Me is be like most here, hell ya I got the predator block upgrade its on!!!! It's the LEAST they could do.....i felt way worse for that gentleman than me and I seen the car come in on the flatbed....as mine did ( lowly GT premium ), hate to say it but my car isn't worth the ink the carfax is printed on so after that I felt worse for him and others than myself....
Ford has been shitty BUT I've come to the realization they ALL are now

 

[Epiphany]

2018 GT350R failed at 1100 miles on track. Motor replaced and ran fine till car was sold at 4500 miles. All track miles except 2000 break in miles. I don't think it is necessarily an indictment of all Voodoo motors but as I understand it the motors have been updated since. I loved the car as a track tool.Pic attached

Connecting rod failure?

 

[madlag]

2018 GT350R failed at 1100 miles on track. Motor replaced and ran fine till car was sold at 4500 miles. All track miles except 2000 break in miles. I don't think it is necessarily an indictment of all Voodoo motors but as I understand it the motors have been updated since. I loved the car as a track tool.Pic attached

rod let go? Anyway thats a legitimate blow! it does happen. MY18 cars received different pistons/rings but I thought rods were the same. Anyway, 15-17 engines significantly different from 18 and up. 19 got a slightly updated block and then 20 has the 500's block. Most "oil consumption" issues stopped with MY18+ cars.

 

[Thrownaway]

Ford would not let the mechanic get in the motor. He was told to send it back unopened. Rumor has it it was an oiling issue with the pick up tube fallingout causing starvation leading to failure? But I have no idea why it blew up?

 

[Strokerswild]

Edit: FWIW, if I ever went back to a Ford Mustang, I'd get a GT350R every time over a GT500 CFTP.

Until a few weeks ago, I was gung-ho on getting my hands on a GT500 late in the year if at all possible, or sometime next spring. Then the virus and serious concerns about job security squashed those notions in a matter of days. I don't see buying a new toy in my future until things are back to where they were back around the Thanksgiving/Xmas holidays. Amazing how fast things can change.

Point is, this has given me time to ponder. In terms of uniqueness in the automotive realm, a GT350R is starting to look like the more desirable car down the road (because manual trans and snotty NA engine). But by the time I will feel comfortable about plopping down some cash, I won't be able to order an R. First world problems.

 

[Frank.Herbst]

2018 GT350R failed at 1100 miles on track. Motor replaced and ran fine till car was sold at 4500 miles. All track miles except 2000 break in miles. I don't think it is necessarily an indictment of all Voodoo motors but as I understand it the motors have been updated since. I loved the car as a track tool.Pic attached

Now that's good supporting information.

 

[shogun32]

Oh no thats right it was a stronger block...boom done a more complete admission of a durability issue could only be attained by a formal ford press release..

except a stronger block is unlikely a factor of rotating parts coming apart and looking for an unnatural exit...

 

[shogun32]

Most "oil consumption" issues stopped with MY18+ cars.

probably because they fixed their boring methodology or fixed the specs/tollerances on bore to piston. How on earth did it not get fixed during MY16?

 

[JAJ]

probably because they fixed their boring methodology or fixed the specs/tollerances on bore to piston. How on earth did it not get fixed during MY16?

2016's don't seem to have had that problem in the first place. There may have been a few, but it was 2017's where it really got going.

 

[johnny1]

2016's don't seem to have had that problem in the first place. There may have been a few, but it was 2017's where it really got going.

Both my 16 and 17 at 4,000 miles when I traded them were using a quart every 3,000 miles.

 

[DCShelby]

The “old” guy that got a new motor still has the original hand signed plaque on it. It gets switched over, just saying

 

[TxGT350-52]

The “old” guy that got a new motor still has the original hand signed plaque on it. It gets switched over, just saying

Does that make it a forgery, since the original signature does not match who built the new motor?

 

[JAJ]

Does that make it a forgery, since the original signature does not match who built the new motor?

Forged internals, forged externals - it's all good.

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