They should replace the 3.7 V6 with that engine and make it an ALL V8 lineup!

 

Not too sure about that. With the addition of twin turbos and all the plumbing and extra goodies. Probably not saving much weight. 500 hp can be reached much easier with displacement or just a simple supercharger. The American companies have always had problems with the V8's holding up with turbos. Not sure why but they just don't. Turbos are really cool and produce immense hp but there's just too many factors to keep them reliable. In 4 or 6 cyl form it seems a little easier to manage everything else that comes with a turbo set up. The supercharger set up seems still the smart way to go with the V8. No lag, stable air flow, less parts required, less exhaust restrictions. I don't believe we will see any TTV8's any time soon unless they buy the technology from Germany or Italy.

 

Gary ! I just realized I totally forgot all about the 3.9L DOHC V8 which was used in both the 2002-2005 Thunderbird and Lincoln LS..

All Ford would need to do to reduce weight is revive the 3.9L V8 and update it by including an aluminum block, along with direct injection and I bet this engine could get up to 40MPG highway with no problem..

Ford can also use this engine for future high performance variants as well such as the GT350/GT500, Mach 1 and so on by adding twin turbo and possibly flat plane crank technology for N/A applications..

Or another possible alternative, Ford could always revive the 4.2L DOHC V8 that was used for the Jaguar S-Type and update it in the same ways in which I just suggested for the 3.9L V8..

So yes, there's no question about it.. Ford definitely has the technology for keeping the V8 alive while at the same time making it more fuel efficient and lighter in weight

 

 

Then I'm all for smaller displacement V8's with the supercharger setup.. Whatever it takes to keep our V8's alive, as I'm pretty sure that Ford can accomplish their goals in both weight reduction and fuel efficiency with this kind of setup and perhaps even more so with the addition of direct injection and possibly flat plane crank technology for N/A applications as well..

Or in the worst case scenario as you also mentioned, look into buying the technology from Germany or Italy as another possible alternative

 

We like each other now. Just not each other's cars.

 

Go back to *****ing or lock this thread.

 

Interesting fact


I can get 18.0mpg doing 100mph on the highway in my 5.8L supercharged Mustang or I can get 16.0mpg doing 100mph in my EB6 exploder

Exploder weighs more I guess and probably more drag different gearing too I guess

Shelby is doing about 1900 rpm in 6th at that speed


But still

 

You shut your ***** mouth!!!! lol


In all seriousness I wonder how long Ford will keep the 3.7 in the Mustang lineup. It seems that the ecoboost is their new favorite toy so who knows what's going to happen.

 

That's MY line! But really, I agree.

 

I think the issue the V8 lovers (including myself) are thinking about but afraid to say is to retire the V8 from the Mustang would be the end of new, affordable V8 powered vehicles.

Once it's gone from the Mustang, it's not likely to stick around for the Camaro or Charger either, and let's face it, we all chose Mustang over those two for a specific reason anyway.

The thing that keeps me up at night with this thread is that without the V8 Mustang, I see a world where the only V8s are in BMWs, Lexuses and that other company.

 

So what's wrong with Def Leppard?

-CorwinSF

 

Even they are downsizing. We live in a world where you can get 4-cylinder S-Classes now (6-cylinder in the US). Ferrari is coming out with a turbo-6, and they've already put it in Maseratis.

Just give me a small turbo 8, if we must have turbos, and I'm good!

 

He was grouping DL with Winger, is all. There's nothing wrong with Def Leppard :P

 

Lol, quite a few pages to catch up on but I got that vibe :-)

 

Nothing. I used to listen to them when I was a kid. It was just an easy way for me to put the verbal judo on Al's posts. lol

 

Perhaps the 3.5 TTV6 may be the replacement for the current 3.7

Yes I know, it's just wishful thinking

 

I've been mentioning the very same in this thread for quite sometime now and IMHO Ford knows full well that GM and Mopar will also be required to downsize as well in order to meet the gov't CAFE regulations, otherwise Ford would not take the risk of discontinuing it's V8 platform knowing full well that such a huge risk could result by losing up to at least half of their existing V8 customers over to the competition

 

Rob ! Remember this classic quote.. " Dude that thing got a Hemi in it "

 

Heck yea I remember that, it was Al's TV debut lmao