Nope. The same people will want it for the same reasons. The people that want a Mustang for HP are still gonna go for the GT instead.

 

I think the name of this thread should be ; I found the greatest dealer, he replaced my engine at no cost to me.

 

I must be lucky because I have had my 2011 stang for about 14 months and luckily not one single issue. I think you V8 guys may be riding her a bit to hard. Don't you know slow and steady wins the race. Lmao.

 

Wha?? No V6 Mustang's on the list?

Guess that 5.0 V8 is more dependable than the few whiners allege.

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This.

No disrespect to the V6 though. great motor, great car.

Most of the 5.0 complaints is internet hype and faulty aftermarket tunes

 

Im not saying the v6 is not having issues it just seemed that the 5.0 was having more posts about there issues.

 

Really, tunes. What are they causing? Like the sct bama tuner. I thought they work great. What issues are they causing with the engines in the v6? Just curious.

 

#8 cylinder failure. Piston breaking at the ring land.

 

what hillbilly said.

In short tuners were being a little bit too agressive cause some #8 cylinders to run too hot. It was an aftermarket growing pain.

 

Its my understanding that issue about # 8 cylinders has been corrected by American Musscle and that issue is no more.

 

Yes, they've since been corrected.

Just brought it up because that led to the slight perception thath the 5.0 was a weak motor

 

definitely not a weak motor...teething pains for tuners (although only a few instances, I DO think Ford has probably realized already that #8 cooling wise might need a slight revision), and a couple instances of unacceptable oil consumption.

for a lightweight aluminum motor, its a very impressive piece.

I am kinda worried -er, curious- on the gt500 5~10~20 yrs down the road how the sprayed iron liners will hold up, at only like .006" thick finished, just wonder what happens when a couple thou wears away combined with temperature cycling... I'm sure Fords looked into it for durability- but just gotta wonder if 5~10 yrs is far enough out of warranty, do they really worry about it? its a neat concept, but still seems to me to be a kinda scary way to lose 8 pounds...seems to me as a lot of shelbys seem to get stored away how sitting will affect them too, as part of the spray liner is basically rust

 

If I understood correctly, Ford uses a low tension ring package. That alone must help save the cylinder walls! But , if that's true, maybe that might explain the oil consumption issue!

 

I think what it really is that the car has the ability to burn off 3-4 quarts in a thousand miles tune or not. Most people don't check their oil in a "new car" that often. They buy it figuring it's like the other cars they've owned in the past and that they won't have a problem because it's new. I checked my oil before a 1000 mile trip and it was in the operating range, and though I was driving fairly hard, it burned off 5 quarts and blew up before the very first oil change. I know some people might say well you shouldn't drive that hard, thinking that I have no clue how a engine should be maintained. I put 43,000 miles on a z06 and drove that car into the ground, I only checked the oil before I tracked it, I never checked when I was using it as DD, and it never burned off any oil. I put 20,000 miles on a 400 whp evoX and never added oil to the car. Their Ford shop manager that (dealer that replaced my engine) told me that they've had a couple 5.0's in the shop because they burned of oil till the engine seized I'm thinking there's a lot more of these engine going down than what's the "internet hype." When it comes down to it, Ford has horrible quality control on this new 5.0 gt.

 

I believe the "internet hype" he was referring to was the transmission issues, which *were* just hype.

 

To not check the engine oil level frequently is just plain ridiculous. You never know when something could put a hole in the oil pan or filter or something could come loose and cause an oil leak. Checking the oil level in any engine is good preventive maintenance.

 

Yup...especially a high compression high hp car.

 

True, but you'd also think a $40K car would have a freaking light or message that would come on when the oil level got down to say, um I don't know, 4 ****ING QUARTS LOW on a brand new car! Hell, my 12 year old Explorer will tell you when the oil is low.

 

^^^ THIS ^^^

 

my 67 camaro with a 400 small block burned less oil that this car.