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Originally Posted by SS420
Ok, this is what we found out. When the 5.0 is mashed to the max...it's receiving 86% throttle. Has something to do with the drive-by-wire. When that's manipulated....to where you are getting the full 100% from the car. The Mustang 5.0 puts down 400RWHP!!! At the stock 86%..your getting about 365RWHP.
Either way....I feel cheated.
I had my MT SS dynoed on a Mustand Dyno...and I got 358.7RWHP.
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Not sure I believe this. At what RPM ranges is the stock 5.0 redlined at? I'll guess somewhere around 6500 to 6800 RPM....so getting another 14% throttle would mean this car could max out at over a 7 grand RPM??? What that even be useful power?
I'd like to see a dyno... usually at a certain RPM torque starts to drop way off so I'm not sure how much benefit you'd get out of this even if it were true.
I'm guessing what could be said is that while "mashing" it only gets you 86%, all these cars are drive by wire, and completely controlled via the ECU, so you know non of these cars (Camaro included) are getting the max possible throttle, b/c they are all redlined and cut off for warranty/durability purposes.