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2013-14 Shelby GT500
Trinity 5.8 to live on in S550
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<blockquote data-quote="TheOne2HotScott" data-source="post: 13595964" data-attributes="member: 122573"><p>"Ford has many plans for ultra-high-performance Mustangs. The first will be a successor to the Shelby-branded GT500, and the company will continue to offer Ford’s “Trinity” supercharged 5.8-liter V-8 making 662 horses. Past the new-gen Shelby GT500, Ford has additional powertrain options for two more hi-po nameplates.</p><p></p><p>The first is a twin-turbocharged V-8, code-named “Voodoo,” which displaces between 5.0 and 5.5 liters and, most intriguingly, has a “flat-plane” or 180-degree crankshaft, as Ferrari has used in its V-8s since 1973. This configuration, also found in the late Lotus Esprit V-8, is akin to connecting two four-cylinder banks to a common crankshaft. Flat cranks theoretically improve power, throttle response, and the soundtrack at the expense of greater vibration. This EcoBoost V-8 will produce between 550 and 600 horses. It will power a Shelby GT350–branded model that eventually will take over from the GT500, as Ford is desperate to discontinue that car’s costly and thirsty Trinity."-Car and Driver</p><p></p><p>I fell out of my chair when I read this...everything I've read up until now said the Trinity wont fit. It doesn't matter to me if it's used or not in the new platform, but somewhere deep inside my subconscious this little voice is saying NO! End it with the 2013/2014 GT500.</p><p></p><p>Another paragraph in the car and Driver report says "we don't know what we are talking about" </p><p> "A new platform—code-named “S550”—will underpin this new Mustang, and through that architecture, Ford is expecting to shed some 200 pounds from the current car’s roughly 3500-pound curb weight."-Car and Driver</p><p></p><p>"current car’s roughly 3500-pound curb weight?" We know how much our GT500s weigh and it aint 3500 pds.</p><p></p><p>I just don't see the Trinity in the new platform...I do and can see the GT bumped up to over 420 h.p. NA, the much anticipated return of the SVT Cobra or use of the GT350 badge with a twin turbo punched out Coyote to 5.4-5.8 nearing 600 h.p. which at 300 or more pounds lighter than the current platform...stock to stock would be close in performance to the current GT500. And a Mach1 or such return with that punched out Coyote NA at around 500 h.p.</p><p></p><p>But hey! if they can fit the Trinity in the new platform, 300 or more pounds less in weight, independent rear, and add some decent rubber to the rims and call it whatever- Cobra, GT500, etc. THAT would be a good right hook and bruising to GM and depending on how the car looks may have my interest.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheOne2HotScott, post: 13595964, member: 122573"] "Ford has many plans for ultra-high-performance Mustangs. The first will be a successor to the Shelby-branded GT500, and the company will continue to offer Ford’s “Trinity” supercharged 5.8-liter V-8 making 662 horses. Past the new-gen Shelby GT500, Ford has additional powertrain options for two more hi-po nameplates. The first is a twin-turbocharged V-8, code-named “Voodoo,” which displaces between 5.0 and 5.5 liters and, most intriguingly, has a “flat-plane” or 180-degree crankshaft, as Ferrari has used in its V-8s since 1973. This configuration, also found in the late Lotus Esprit V-8, is akin to connecting two four-cylinder banks to a common crankshaft. Flat cranks theoretically improve power, throttle response, and the soundtrack at the expense of greater vibration. This EcoBoost V-8 will produce between 550 and 600 horses. It will power a Shelby GT350–branded model that eventually will take over from the GT500, as Ford is desperate to discontinue that car’s costly and thirsty Trinity."-Car and Driver I fell out of my chair when I read this...everything I've read up until now said the Trinity wont fit. It doesn't matter to me if it's used or not in the new platform, but somewhere deep inside my subconscious this little voice is saying NO! End it with the 2013/2014 GT500. Another paragraph in the car and Driver report says "we don't know what we are talking about" "A new platform—code-named “S550”—will underpin this new Mustang, and through that architecture, Ford is expecting to shed some 200 pounds from the current car’s roughly 3500-pound curb weight."-Car and Driver "current car’s roughly 3500-pound curb weight?" We know how much our GT500s weigh and it aint 3500 pds. I just don't see the Trinity in the new platform...I do and can see the GT bumped up to over 420 h.p. NA, the much anticipated return of the SVT Cobra or use of the GT350 badge with a twin turbo punched out Coyote to 5.4-5.8 nearing 600 h.p. which at 300 or more pounds lighter than the current platform...stock to stock would be close in performance to the current GT500. And a Mach1 or such return with that punched out Coyote NA at around 500 h.p. But hey! if they can fit the Trinity in the new platform, 300 or more pounds less in weight, independent rear, and add some decent rubber to the rims and call it whatever- Cobra, GT500, etc. THAT would be a good right hook and bruising to GM and depending on how the car looks may have my interest. [/QUOTE]
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