Posted on 12/31/2009 5:45:14 AM PST by Red Badger
The Ford Mustang will get not one, but two new engines next year.
Ford Motor Co. announced Monday that it plans to introduce an all-new 5.0-liter, V8 engine for its 2011 Mustang GT in the spring. The V8 engine will deliver 412 horsepower and 390 pound-feet of torque - 87 more horsepower than the outgoing engine.
"This is the right engine for the car," said Bob Fascetti, Ford's director of large gas and diesel engines.
Monday's confirmation follows Ford's announcement in November that it will also provide an all-new 3.7-liter V6 engine with 305 horsepower in the Mustang when it goes on sale in the spring. That engine provides 95 more horsepower than the outgoing model.
Mustang enthusiasts have been clamoring for more powerful engines, and Ford's new V8 engine is expected to give the Mustang GT the horsepower it needs to compete against the Chevrolet Camaro SS and the Dodge Challenger SRT8.
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"The Mustang is a gorgeous vehicle that unfortunately this year ... was down on horsepower versus its competitors," said John Wolkonowicz, senior analyst for IHS Global Insight. "But all that gets fixed next year."
Mustang's shortage of power gave Ford problems in 2009 as the Camaro returned in the spring to the marketplace for the first time since 2002.
The result: Camaro has outsold Mustang for the last six months. In November, 6,887 Camaros were sold compared with just 3,627 Mustangs, according to Autodata Corp.
Ford executives are betting that Camaro's time at the top will be limited.
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Ford also boasts that the engine itself is lighter and smaller. At 5.0 liters, the Mustang's new engine delivers about 83 horsepower per liter.
"Please compare that to whatever else is out there," Fascetti said.
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The only car with 4-wheel drum brakes that I've ever felt totally at ease while driving was my cousin's huge '67 Buick Riviera. Of course, the drums appeared to have been stolen from the GMC Heavy Truck parts bin, with external cooling fins and all.
My '66 Galaxie was okay with all drums, though a wet day could really increase the pucker factor.
Check out the big rear drum brakes sold by Cobra Automotive - they're finned like the ones I described (my station wagon drums are not - and those are still sold by many Mustang parts vendors as the "Shelby big drum brake" kit).
A popular trick is to get the spindles and disc brake parts off of a Ford Grenada and swap them into the early drum-brake Mustangs - have you checked into that?
A popular trick is to get the spindles and disc brake parts off of a Ford Grenada and swap them into the early drum-brake Mustangs - have you checked into that?
Yes, I’ve heard that, in fact my friend has mentioned that as a possibility but he also said that with my level of mechanical incompetence I was better off with a kit.
Mustangs and Camaro’s are a dime a dozen, now my ‘68 340 Formula S Barracuda Fastback is much rarer these days. I’d like to see Chrysler bring back the Cuda. That would sell.
My ‘68 Barracuda came with those same 4 piston K-H calipers. Am thinking about a Wilwood upgrade some day.
The Mustang II is now considered a fairly rare automobile, since they since most all met untimely demises..............
Mustangs are a dime a dozen which is precisely why I bought one. The parts to rebuild the car are equally cheap because there’s a huge market for them. And I still get to drive around in an American icon. Plus, a 1965 Mustang was the first car I ever owned back in the day. So, there’s the nostalgia quotient to be considered.
go with the upgraded drums, that should be plenty improvement IMO
I don’t know, they’ll be hard pressed to outdo the 427R, and it comes with my laser-defense system on it...
http://www.roushperformance.com/performance_vehicles/ford/mustang/2010/427r.shtml
roush has it pretty well covered...
Suspect working on these engines is still far more difficult than the old stuff, so it is good it comes from the factory with decent power..............
This is the stuff dreams are made of...
I have one word for you and for Ford: “Corvette”. nuff said.
1969 Boss 429A year later, I got to drive my girlfriends car to 7 Gymkhana victories in class A and class C in this beast (her's was gold in color, and had no scoops or external Shelby tags, but all snake under the body - the sleeper from hell).
My Babydoll 85 Corvette Z52I drool over these too. I’m really blown away with some of their values as seen on Barret-Jackson. I had 66 that I souped up, but it was not a numbers matching ride.
I kinda liked my black 1990 GT. I didn't stop very quickly, and who knows what direction you would end up going if the rear end got up in the air but it would go like hell.
I knew I was in trouble when it ended up in rap songs along with "9s" and I started to see mutants with lightning bolts shaved into their heads behind the wheel of GTs. It was stolen 3 times. It was finally disappeared completely when it was stolen from outside of South Philly high. I had to drop it there in a snowstorm in March 93 when I flew out to England. Never saw it again.
My mechanic neighbor did a bead blast to the bone on his 66, and put a new deep dish 289, fuel cell, whole enchilada. Radical little Sunday drive. A good friend of mine has done the same to his 68 Wildcat 400. Now I’m wishing I’d kept my Malibu. In Tork’s barn.
If Ford comes out with a Stang that looks like a 68 or 69 without looking as bloated as a Charger I might pick one up. They’ve all lost their sleekness. They all (Camero, Cuda, Mustang) look like Ukrainian women weightlifters.
Now I love American muscle cars and I have respect for the Mustang...but Ford is right now getting their butts kicked by the almighty return of the Chevy Camaro...its ok Chevy will revamp the Camaro Engine and the Z28 is coming soon...
those damn government regulations are why they don’t make cars as beautiful as this
Yesterday it was a Buick GS?
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