2011gt5.0

Anyone have there coyote built with forged internals? Any good places near Pittsburgh? Cost?

ford20

If you are in Pittsburgh than I would suggest L&M which is near Philly (bit of a long drive) but they are one of the best modular builders in the country IMO. What kind of goals do you have for the car? What kind of power adder?

I went with JPC Racing/RGR (which I would also consider one of the best) and it cost me $13,500 for the shortblock. It included a new block, Darton Sleeves, offset grind crank making it 326ci, custom diamond pistons, Manley I beam rods, coated pistons, bearings, OPG, Total Seal rings, King bearings. It was a good chunk of change for sure but it should hold ~1500HP

5.M0NSTER

Your Coyote has forged crank and connecting rods. Are you talking about forged pistons and H beams?

ford20

Only the Boss had the forged connecting rods. The 5.0 just has the forged crank.

5.M0NSTER

I can't find the link to the specs right now but IIRC all Coyotes have sinter forged connecting rods, while the Aluminator has forged H beams.... Or am I not remembering right? That is entirely possible

2k7gtcs

That's how I remember it

There's isn't a mustang recently made that has forged h beams

Even the last GT500 Trinity didn't have them

ford20

Sort of kind of, just the Boss and the GT500 had the sinter forged rods. The GT had the powder forged rods which aren't nearly as strong as the rods in the GT500 & Boss which is why the Boss rotating assembly was highly sought after. For a few hundred bucks and your own time and labor you can have an engine capable of producing more power than the block might be able to hold. Most Boss 302's I have seen, failed around the 850-900 mark compared to the GT's failing around 625-650 which is still an impressive feat none the less.