|
No DCT for the Mustang in the near future, likely not before the redesign in 2014. 2011 will be more or less like the 2010 with different engines and other upgrades to go along with it. Mustang's chassis wont need any beefing up to handle 400hp, they already strengthened the chassis to handle the power and torque of the GT500 for the 2007MY and hae apparently strengthened it again fopr the 2010. Cylinder heads are four valve units.
The basis for the new Coyote V8 is a destroked and bored out 5.4L with a shorter deck, but the engine is so vastly different that it is effectively all new. It isn't as radical a change as we saw when Chevy went from the LT1 to the LS1, but it is more involved than the difference between the old 350ci V8's of the 70's and 80's and the LT1.
|