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If it aint broke, dont fix it. Besides, I dont think they can get away with making too much more power than they do already now that the government owns them. Bama dont need no racekaa.32 valve V-8. Are you listening chevy?
Can't believe that even the ZR-1 is using a pushrod V8. It obviously works, but it has so much more potential..
32 valve V-8. Are you listening chevy?
Or keep the5 liter and top it with a 3 plus liter Whipple.
A DOHC 32v 5.0l is indeed nice. I know the Olds Aurora had something like that and they built some nice race engines out of those.
You mean like they did with the 02-03 Cobras?
Here's my impression of Ford Engineers; "Hey guys, we suck at doing anything the right way so here's a Modular 4.6 with more valves and oh hey here's an Eaton blower that makes shit for power now because we're going to make this thing suck air through a 1/4" straw to pass emissions regulations... yeah thats the ticket... because we wouldn't want to spend the time building an efficient engine that has a ton of potential on the LEGAL side of things like Chevrolet did with that LS6 engine that will still destroy this car..."
But hey at least it was only 35k, so the buyers could actually afford to pay for the 1000 dollar gas guzzler tax that they included into the base price...
The 03/04 Cobras. And the Eatons on those were only mid 2 liter displacement IIRC. A 5.0 with a 3 liter or bigger Whipple would decimate the older setup.
You right, Ford did miss the little things on the 03/04's, but I still give em more credit than GM. I've witnesses one Cobra make nearly 400 with pullies, catless x-pipe, CAI, and tune. And another made nearly 500 with the same parts and a Steigemester (SP?) ported Eaton. The highest I've seen from 4th gen f-bodies like mine with full bolt ons is still a lil short of the first Cobra I mentioned.
^ Agreed. I just give Ford more credit than GM because they don't make cookie cutter cars lol. And, they're still privately owned lol.