[TheReaper]

So you agree with Top Gear that the car has too much HP. What are you smoking ? We Americans can never have too much horsepower.

Originally Posted by eolson

I agree with a lot of what they said. If SVT simply beefed up the internals and put a smaller pulley on the 5.4 liter for let's say 585HP, still gave the car it's improved cooling, bigger better brakes(with correct ford racing ducts and DOT fluid), the launch and traction controls that have improved, aerodynamic improvements, and put the left over money into a under/behind rear seat cross brace to solve the monocoque issue, a watts link, as well as taken weight off the front to get a 51/49% front/rear weight ratio, they'd have a much better car on their hands.

Ford and SVT, unlike GM with the ZL1, did not go all the way with the available technology to solve the handling issues with the GT500/Mustang platform.

The Pan hard bar and brace still slide the frame/chassis up and down diagonally over bumps and dips, Watts link solves that loss of grip and tire contact position, giving better grip over the bumps and dips.

Still not having an X brace(like the Boss LS) or equivalent under/behind rear seat cross chassis support brace system, allows the Monocoque problem to continue, which is the inner rear tire lifting in hard corners as a result of the fixed axel. This problem is mostly solved by cross diagonal bracing, and loss of traction going in and out of corners is greatly reduced as with the Boss LS (even though Boss still suffers some lateral movement on bump like track curbs/Randy Pobst, from pan hard set up). The Boss LS grips and exits out of corners very well because of the cross bracing.

GT500 needs weight taken off the front end to the tune of 220 lbs. Throw some expense into lighter materials needed critically for this.

Instead, most of the budget was put into the engine, instead of having the GT500 reaching it's true handling potential on this platform. IMO, Erik