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Only if the 429 is something battery related instead of cubic inches. 429 duck power per electric motor? 429 wishes for combustion? 429,000 disappointed enthusiasts?
that 6.8L is damn close to 429ci.
 
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How to you get to that HP number without the high RPMs provided by the FPC? Also - where did the extra torque come from?
The Voodoo only revs to ~8250, people are banging 8k all day in the Gen 3 5.0 already. I'd not be amazed at all if it wouldn't take much for 8200+ to be reliable in the the new Crossplane 5.2 with an NA configuration. It's also just a bump of 20tq over a 5.0, again not hard to see a 5.2 based on similar design getting that bump.
 

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Any names NOT brought back yet you'd like to see?
Mustang II? Ha ha. Just kidding. Nothing else left. Hey, a comment. The Boss 302 and 429 referred more or less to displacement (in cu. in.). And GT350 and GT500 to HP, since neither ever was 5.7L or 8.2L respectively. So the GT350 should have been the GT525, and the new GT500 the GT760. That means if Ford is 'lying' with the Shelbys already, why not with the Bosses? They could call a Mustang with the 5.2 the Boss 429, and nobody should flinch.
 

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Mustang II? Ha ha. Just kidding. Nothing else left. Hey, a comment. The Boss 302 and 429 referred more or less to displacement (in cu. in.). And GT350 and GT500 to HP, since neither ever was 5.7L or 8.2L respectively. So the GT350 should have been the GT525, and the new GT500 the GT760. That means if Ford is 'lying' with the Shelbys already, why not with the Bosses? They could call a Mustang with the 5.2 the Boss 429, and nobody should flinch.
GT350 was named “350” because it was literally 350 steps from Shelby’s office to the production line, IIRC. had nothing to do with HP.
 

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Really??? Sounds stupid. Ha ha. So what was the HP of the first one then? And what about the GT500? Wasn't that one HP for sure? At any rate, if that was really the reason, then there's no need to follow any logic anymore, no? At least Ford would be slapping it to another 'special' RWD Mustang :).
 
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Really??? Sounds stupid. Ha ha. So what was the HP of the first one then? And what about the GT500? Wasn't that one HP for sure? At any rate, if that was really the reason, then there's no need to follow any logic anymore, no? At least Ford would be slapping it to another 'special' RWD Mustang :).
The man made his own Mustangs and won Le Mans. He could have stuck whatever moniker he wanted on his car. I happen to think it was a very clever and catchy moniker.

IIRC, the GT350 had an enhanced k-code 289 and was declared to produce ~325hp. The 427ci and 428ci GT500s obviously had more than the exclaimed 375-385hp. Insurance issues played a factor in how much HP manufacturers admitted to.
 

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Ouch, no love for the Boss 351? It's closer to 5.2L and they were no slouch back in the day by any means.
Edit: The more I think about it the more that makes some good bit of sense as a special edition. Increase displacement to 351ci, slot the power in right around 500hp-530hp. Bottom end stays the same for cost measures, top end changes but not too drastically. Shelby could use the architecture to build a next gen GT350/500 car off of..... Oh one can dream.
 
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Ouch, no love for the Boss 351? It's closer to 5.2L and they were no slouch back in the day by any means.
Edit: The more I think about it the more that makes some good bit of sense as a special edition. Increase displacement to 351ci, slot the power in right around 500hp-530hp. Bottom end stays the same for cost measures, top end changes but not too drastically. Shelby could use the architecture to build a next gen GT350/500 car off of..... Oh one can dream.
For had a 5.8 in the GT500 for a bit. That could have let them use an NA version for a BOSS 351, but they didn't.
 

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I wouldn’t be surprised if they bring back the offical cobra badge not the Shelby badge lol

like back in the day
 

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For had a 5.8 in the GT500 for a bit. That could have let them use an NA version for a BOSS 351, but they didn't.
The 5.8 (and 5.4 that came before it) were really truck engines (old ford modular). They were kind of dogs without the supercharger. Some of that could be fixed with headers and compression ratio, but they weren't the greatest as NA engines. The Coyote (while being another variant of the modular - but a bigger variant), was a huge step up from the 5.4/5.8.
 

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The 5.8 (and 5.4 that came before it) were really truck engines (old ford modular). They were kind of dogs without the supercharger. Some of that could be fixed with headers and compression ratio, but they weren't the greatest as NA engines. The Coyote (while being another variant of the modular - but a bigger variant), was a huge step up from the 5.4/5.8.
And by 2013 the engine was having a hard time passing emissions as is. I remember a Ford engineer saying that they could get 450hp out of an N/A 5.4 but it would need to rev past the infamous 7000rpm mark. For those that don’t know on the 5.4 and 5.8, piston speed is a major issue and is the reason why a lot of the gt500 guys don’t go past 6500rpm. Also why the cobra R didn’t rev very high either
 

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And by 2013 the engine was having a hard time passing emissions as is. I remember a Ford engineer saying that they could get 450hp out of an N/A 5.4 but it would need to rev past the infamous 7000rpm mark. For those that don’t know on the 5.4 and 5.8, piston speed is a major issue and is the reason why a lot of the gt500 guys don’t go past 6500rpm. Also why the cobra R didn’t rev very high either
Yeah - I wouldn't push my 5.4 past 6400 (limit set in the tune). Just not worth the risk. Took a few weeks to adjust my shifting to the Voodoo's 8250 redline!
 
 




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