New Shelby American GT350

[17VUDU]

Shelby isnt fooling the purists. Take GT add some parts, minus the Voodoo and sell it as a GT350. For me it’s not that it looks bad, because I don’t think it’s ugly. It certainly has plenty of horsepower, but don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining.

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[IPOGT]

Shelby isnt fooling the purists. Take GT add some parts, minus the Voodoo and sell it as a GT350. For me it’s not that it looks bad, because I don’t think it’s ugly. It certainly has plenty of horsepower, but don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining.

That’s called a Mach 1.

 

[17VUDU]

That’s called a Mach 1.

To be clear, I wasn’t taking a shot at the Mach1.

 

[ChitownStang]

To be clear, I wasn’t taking a shot at the Mach1.

Bought my 2021 premium Mach 1 new for $56k little less than 4 years ago.
Limited edition car with some unique interior stitching, unique front end and a bunch of Shelby gt500 and 350 parts.
How is this new 350 double?
It just is not, period.
I’m contemplating spending $70k on a 2020 350 with low miles soon and be way less butt hurt with something truely different and special
It will be worth the same as the 25 gt350 in a year

 

[MAGS1]

Bought my 2021 premium Mach 1 new for $56k little less than 4 years ago.
Limited edition car with some unique interior stitching, unique front end and a bunch of Shelby gt500 and 350 parts.
How is this new 350 double?
It just is not, period.
I’m contemplating spending $70k on a 2020 350 with low miles soon and be way less butt hurt with something truely different and special
It will be worth the same as the 25 gt350 in a year

Do it! Buy that Voodoo

 

[BombZombie]

Again....the crowd that buys Shelby American vehicles does not hang around Mustang6G. They're mostly old dudes that have more money than time left alive that want to own a genuine Shelby product. They talk with their wallets....not their enthusiast knowledge.

The dude that bought my Super Snake barely knew anything about the car and later called me to ask if the springs could be raised because he had a hard time getting in and out of the car.

 

[Oakley]

...didn't shelby build the original 350 out of normal mustangs?

 

[robvas]

...didn't shelby build the original 350 out of normal mustangs?

Yea but they didn't charge a 175% markup

 

[Angrey]

Again....the crowd that buys Shelby American vehicles does not hang around Mustang6G. They're mostly old dudes that have more money than time left alive that want to own a genuine Shelby product. They talk with their wallets....not their enthusiast knowledge.

The dude that bought my Super Snake barely knew anything about the car and later called me to ask if the springs could be raised because he had a hard time getting in and out of the car.

Pretty much. It's the same with "crate motors." For what your general run of the mill crate motor costs, you could have twice the motor and come out ahead. But crate motor purchases are for guys that are moderately into cars and don't want the hassle of truly bespoke builds.

At any rate, as has been mentioned endlessly, Shelby will sell every single one of the new GT350's, and easily. The market is full of guys who just want the label.

And I'm sure we've all overpaid for something that we held in high regard that others thought was foolish.

Hell, around the year 2000, when the assault weapons ban madness was in full force, I paid $115 for a Glock high capacity magazine. My father thought I was nuts. But no one knew if they were ever going to make more of them so the prices of anything that already existed over 10 rounds went through the roof. The law later expired in 2004 and things went back to normal. So I still own a magazine that I paid almost 10x the fair price.

 

[Bikeman315]

Again....the crowd that buys Shelby American vehicles does not hang around Mustang6G. They're mostly old dudes that have more money than time left alive that want to own a genuine Shelby product. They talk with their wallets....not their enthusiast knowledge.

The dude that bought my Super Snake barely knew anything about the car and later called me to ask if the springs could be raised because he had a hard time getting in and out of the car.

Yeah, absolutely. Maybe you should tell @Jmeo that.
https://www.mustang6g.com/forums/th...ican-gt500-se-wide-body-build-phase-2.145747/

 

[Bikeman315]

...didn't shelby build the original 350 out of normal mustangs?

Well they all started out as “nornal” Mustangs. That includes the S550 GT350. & GT500. Just regular, ordinary, mass produced Ford’s.

 

[Oakley]

Yea but they didn't charge a 175% markup

fair point, i guess that is insult added to injury on an already overpriced car.

I think a GT350, though, is whatever shelby american says it is because they have the rights to that name. the "no voodoo no 350" is weird because the novelty of the voodoo experiment, as cool as it was, probably won't happen again for a long while.

 

[DopamineQuest]

Yeah, absolutely. Maybe you should tell @Jmeo that.
https://www.mustang6g.com/forums/th...ican-gt500-se-wide-body-build-phase-2.145747/

Jmeo bought a 500 and then sent it to SA to get widebodied and other stuff, completely different than someone buying these SA products for crazy money at a dealership

 

[Bikeman315]

Jmeo bought a 500 and then sent it to SA to get widebodied and other stuff, completely different than someone buying these SA products for crazy money at a dealership

I know that. I was referring to his interactions with SA. I‘d guess that his opinions of SA and their products would differ from a lot of the those written in this thread.

 

[Angrey]

fair point, i guess that is insult added to injury on an already overpriced car.

I think a GT350, though, is whatever shelby american says it is because they have the rights to that name. the "no voodoo no 350" is weird because the novelty of the voodoo experiment, as cool as it was, probably won't happen again for a long while.

I own a voodoo and being honest, other than the sound, it was an overall failure. It was the worst of both designs, the heavy counterweights of a cross plane without the inherent balancing which created significant vibrations (and no advantages for rotational limits). It's as if someone said "give me the drawbacks of the CPC and the drawbacks of the FPC and let's combine them together." The voodoo was magnificent in it's leap forward for the heads and other robust timing components. The plastic pan was meh, okay.

But being honest, other than the unique sound, (which is glorious) there's really zero advantages to an equivalently provisioned coyote, and has some serious drawbacks. Most people don't realize the rev limit on the voodoo had nothing to do with the FPC crank.

Now, I personally think when Ford changed the firing order from the modulars to the coyote it sounds like ass. I guess the perfect motor to me would be the coyote cpc with the old 4.6 firing order, 5.2 liter with GT350 heads, predator block.

You could ditch the voodoo and the S550 GT350 is still a special car.

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