GT350/R Long-Term Reliability

[Inthehighdesert]

Lmao

current owners always say blah blah and blame the noise on GT owners. i have seen plenty of actual 350 owners post about engine replacements and engine issues. the risk is there, but how high of a risk, idk. later.

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[Thor 142]

Geeze, last time I saw this much Voodoo bashing was on Camaro 5 lol. Is it the most reliable engine out there? Who cares? Who buys a track car for "longevity"? I dunno. I think Ford made this car for 1 thing, track performance. Win goes to Ford. and I am NOT a brand fanboy. caveat: the only reason I bought this car is because I literally could not get my hands on ZL1 1LE for less than 10k over MSRP, and I love it.
If you bought it for resale value park it in the garage and start it every few days and let it run for an hour. If you bought it for a daily driver you're wasting your money. If you bought it to track it....yes.
PS don't listen to me I'm an idiot.

 

[K4fxd]

I wish Ford had done the traditional flatplane crank. Less rotating mass and it has been around long enough the short comings have been engineered out.

With unequal length exhaust headers it would not sound like a Ferrari.

 

[Inthehighdesert]

To make that statement you completely missed the point of the Gt350 and what Ford Performance accomplished with the Gt350.

I wish Ford had done the traditional flatplane crank. Less rotating mass and it has been around long enough the short comings have been engineered out.

With unequal length exhaust headers it would not sound like a Ferrari.

 

[K4fxd]

you completely missed the point of the Gt350

Yea, it could have been so much more.....

Oh, and I'm not just talking about the engine either. What would a true unequal A arm rear do....

 

[wingnutt]

Geeze, last time I saw this much Voodoo bashing was on Camaro 5 lol. Is it the most reliable engine out there? Who cares? Who buys a track car for "longevity"? I dunno. I think Ford made this car for 1 thing, track performance. Win goes to Ford. and I am NOT a brand fanboy. caveat: the only reason I bought this car is because I literally could not get my hands on ZL1 1LE for less than 10k over MSRP, and I love it.
If you bought it for resale value park it in the garage and start it every few days and let it run for an hour. If you bought it for a daily driver you're wasting your money. If you bought it to track it....yes.
PS don't listen to me I'm an idiot.

i was with ya until the bold part…
if I BUY it, I’m dam sure gonna DRIVE it

 

[1958cyclist]

VooDoos do have there issues...I'm curious to see whether Chevy's 5.5 flat plane has similar issues over the long term.

 

[JAJ]

VooDoos do have there issues...I'm curious to see whether Chevy's 5.5 flat plane has similar issues over the long term.

The biggest issue the Voodoo had was that the headline "Failed Voodoo" was a massive click magnet. People generating income off social media and YouTube just couldn't get enough of it.

To counter some of the BS, there was a site that was up for a while where the site operator had taken all the social media he could find on Voodoo failures and deduplicated them to get a realistic number. He also parsed the apparent cause of the failure.

Surprise, surprise - the failure rate was pretty much in line with any other high performance engine, and there was no single dominant cause of the failures. Random problems at rates similar to other engine products was the conclusion. Site's gone now, but it was pretty useful back in 2019 or so when it was up.

Oh, wait, you've got a GT. Of course the Voodoo has "issues"...

 

[dom418]

You have a much greater chance of your AC condenser failing before popping your motor. Now that’s an issue that very well documented in the S550

 

[Demonic]

If the Voodoos were really that unreliable we'd be dumping them for top dollar with the pandemic pricing. And even if someday you have to rebuild the engine you're still way ahead of people paying for extended warranties on more exotic cars.

 

[1958cyclist]

The biggest issue the Voodoo had was that the headline "Failed Voodoo" was a massive click magnet. People generating income off social media and YouTube just couldn't get enough of it.

To counter some of the BS, there was a site that was up for a while where the site operator had taken all the social media he could find on Voodoo failures and deduplicated them to get a realistic number. He also parsed the apparent cause of the failure.

Surprise, surprise - the failure rate was pretty much in line with any other high performance engine, and there was no single dominant cause of the failures. Random problems at rates similar to other engine products was the conclusion. Site's gone now, but it was pretty useful back in 2019 or so when it was up.

Oh, wait, you've got a GT. Of course the Voodoo has "issues"...

No, I just appreciate well thought out designs...

 

[Demonic]

I wish Ford had done the traditional flatplane crank. Less rotating mass and it has been around long enough the short comings have been engineered out.

With unequal length exhaust headers it would not sound like a Ferrari.

Jamal Hameedi, the chief engineer for the GT350, had said when the GT350 was developed that the engine bay packaging (and I'm willing to bed also costs) prevented them from doing a UDDU order since it would have required room for independent intake tracts with separate manifolds, throttle bodies, etc.

VooDoos do have there issues...I'm curious to see whether Chevy's 5.5 flat plane has similar issues over the long term.

Jordan Lee, the chief engineer for the flat plane LT6, has already said that they had to deal with vibration issues in the development of the LT6 also, even though it's an UDDU. I'm still looking forward to it.

 

[JAJ]

...Jordan Lee, the chief engineer for the flat plane LT6, has already said that they had to deal with vibration issues in the development of the LT6 also, even though it's an UDUD. I'm still looking forward to it.

I read somewhere recently that early on in testing the new Corvette engine, the oil filter unscrewed itself from an engine that was on the dyno for testing. I'm sure I've heard of that happening before, but where? Let me think...

 

[K4fxd]

Jordan Lee, the chief engineer for the flat plane LT6, has already said that they had to deal with vibration issues in the development of the LT6 also, even though it's an UDUD.

The LT6 is UDDU. I might trade my C6 for one of these

I read somewhere recently that early on in testing the new Corvette engine, the oil filter unscrewed itself from an engine that was on the dyno

Thats why they do testing.....

GT350 was developed that the engine bay packaging (and I'm willing to bed also costs) prevented them from doing a UDDU order since it would have required room for independent intake tracts with separate manifolds, throttle bodies, etc.

Bean counters, could be the reason.

 

[Demonic]

The LT6 is UDDU. I might trade my C6 for one of these

Typo sorry, meant to say UDDU.

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