The current word is mid to late summer. But no one really knows..

http://www.trackey.ford.com/trackey/

 

Thanks. I guess it will be the same for the recaro package since mine came without it.... Still hppy as hell, Awesome ride...

 

What do you mean the same as the recaro package? Those ship on the cars. People have cars with them right now

 

500 at the flywheel is possible with the the Boss 302....real headers and a cam swap and tune, should do it.

 

I did not order my car. It came with the unique cloth boss 302 seats. I want the recaro (r) seats.

 

i like to make things my own, im not saying i am getting into the engine at all. i find it hard to believe that I am the only one already thinking of things to do to their car. i will track the car on road courses, take it to the dragstrip, autocross it, and take it to car shows, the vast majority of the time it will just be my daily driver. I don't plan on keeping it 100% stock. are most of you planning to do nothing to the car?

 

hmmm, how much of a difference do you think there are between these jpc heads this dude is running and the ported boss heads? he is a bit over 500whp NA.

http://www.svtperformance.com/forums...p-h-c-i-n.html

 

I think there are people planning on doing things to their cars. It just depends on what because one of the nice Boss features is that you have a tuned performance car with warranty. So I guess it just depends on what you want to do to it.

 

yeah i held out six months on my 10 before killing the warranty. i fugure if nothing major happens in the first few thousand miles it probably wont. ive never had anythign major on a new car, jut little things like radio issues, and power windows that won't work. knock on wood

i helped a buddy put a boss intake on his 11 today and he ran the lund tune with the cammed sound, it was awesome.

 

What exactly does it need?

 

its not a matter of need. if you don't understand why someone mods a car i can't really explain it to you.

 

I agree with Shane. The car probably "needs" nothing, but that doesn't mean I don't "want" to change things and enhance it's performance. There is no way Ford could produce "the best possible" car and sell it at $40k, there is more performance to be had.

Now to answer the thread topic, yes I think a NA Boss can hit 500. Full exhaust, more headwork, higher rpm, possibly cams. We will see!

 

I do and sadly it's a function of marketing. Save your modification budget for track time and improve the nut behind the wheel and then you'll have a much faster car than any exhaust, tune, or set of springs will net you.

 

The JPC Stage 1 heads (they have Stage 2 and 3 coming out) are very similar to the Boss heads. They flow about 30 cfm intake and 20 cfm exhaust more than the stock heads on the GT.

The cams I have no idea, but I doubt they're much more radical than the Boss cams.

I do think that reading is a little on the high side though.

I bet the stock air induction and exhaust is choking the **** out of the Boss, particularly at high RPM. A full set of bolt-ons on a 2011 GT (CAI, tune, headers, x-pipe, catback) will net around 50-55 rwhp gain. I wouldn't be surprised if it nets more, maybe 65-70hp on the Boss. Assuming the average Boss will dyno 25hp more than the average GT, that would put a bolt-on Boss around 470hp or so.

 

Agreed MrBonus! What RWHP can my Boss achieve is the wrong question. For me its how can I shave 2 seconds off my lap time. I'm curious how many Boss owners can out-drive a Stock Boss? I hope to have my Boss this week and find out! But, I'm sure I'm far from that.
$100 in Driving Instruction = $1000 in Go-Fast parts!

 

i under stand driver mod and i need that as well, but this car will spend more time on the road than on the track. at any rate it all goes back to the car doesn't need anythign, i just like to tweak and tinker and change things to suit me more than the track or any specific goal.

 

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It does not matter, it really does not matter.

The 500 hp bench mark does not need to be met for the sake of matching the GT500 and having bragging rights. If the Boss 302 meets the expectations of it specs it will be just as fun it were to be a split of a second faster since the difference would be transparent to most drivers.

 

How can your mechanic have TracKey when it has not been released by Ford yet????

 

as it seems you know a fair amount about this.. the tb that is used in this project?

beers