Ecoboost Mustang GT
10-28-2010, 11:36 PM
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Turbocharged Ford Mustang?
By Mike Magrath | October 27, 2010
The exterior has some tweaks, but the interior tells the story: Premium Fuel Only, and a 9,000-rpm tachometer. The current 2011 Ford Mustang GT makes peak power on 93, but works just fine on 87 and its tachometer only sweeps to 8,000-- the GT500, even less, its needle stops swinging at 7.
So, then, what we have here is a car with a higher redline, a requirement for premium fuel and a new bumper cover that looks to funnel air into an intercooler. Oh, and Ford also has a 3.5-liter Ecoboost V6 set up for a front-engine, rear drive configuration that can fit in the same spot as a 5.0-liter V8-- they do it in the F-150, why not for the Mustang?
In the F-150, the Ecoboost makes 365-horsepower and 420 pound-feet of torque and there's no reason to think that those are the limits of the engine and that, with a Mustang-Specific tune, Ford couldn't have a V6 powerplant capable of at least 400.
But then, where does the GT 5.0-liter go? The way of the Buffalo or the way of the supercharger?
By Mike Magrath | October 27, 2010
The exterior has some tweaks, but the interior tells the story: Premium Fuel Only, and a 9,000-rpm tachometer. The current 2011 Ford Mustang GT makes peak power on 93, but works just fine on 87 and its tachometer only sweeps to 8,000-- the GT500, even less, its needle stops swinging at 7.
So, then, what we have here is a car with a higher redline, a requirement for premium fuel and a new bumper cover that looks to funnel air into an intercooler. Oh, and Ford also has a 3.5-liter Ecoboost V6 set up for a front-engine, rear drive configuration that can fit in the same spot as a 5.0-liter V8-- they do it in the F-150, why not for the Mustang?
In the F-150, the Ecoboost makes 365-horsepower and 420 pound-feet of torque and there's no reason to think that those are the limits of the engine and that, with a Mustang-Specific tune, Ford couldn't have a V6 powerplant capable of at least 400.
But then, where does the GT 5.0-liter go? The way of the Buffalo or the way of the supercharger?
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10-29-2010, 05:37 PM
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Yes, it is just a Boss test mule....not a prototype ecoboost Mustang. You're not gonna see an 8-9K redline on a turbocharged mass production car like this. If anything, the redline would be lower.
So, yea.........it's just a Boss mule (still a 5.oh BTW
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So, yea.........it's just a Boss mule (still a 5.oh BTW
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