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Originally Posted by mrray13
That's going to make a few people angry, if it's true. So, what are the tweakers going to get to play with? Forced induction, typical boltons, yeah. But with only a little room for a displacement gain...  ...why would Ford do that to their customers who they know are going to want to play? |
You kinda hit the nail on the head here and this was the dealbreaker on trading my car in. They're putting the same damn powdered metal rods in the new motor effectively limiting the HP anyway. And at 11:1 compression how will it handle boost??? I can't feel good about trading my car in for one of these if it's not capable of 500+whp under boost. I'd just as soon swap a forged assy 5.4L into mine, or a DSS supermod 3V etc, etc.
I think Ford was just wanting to stay competitive with the Camaro by designing this quasi-cammer 4V with cheaper components. Defeinetely an improvement over the 3V but not a forged assy 3V so....
They seem to do JUST ENOUGH to stay somewhat competitive w/o killing the aftermarket...oh well. I'll sit back and watch the show.
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