Well I was in Milan Michigan for the NMRA Ford drag racing a few weeks back and saw Don Bowles in his 2006 Mustang which has carried a 5.4 GT engine blueprinted by Roush and putting out around 750 bhp. At Columbus last Labor day the car was running 9.40's at over 140 mph.
The hood was off at Milan but the engine was NOTa 5.4! It was a different looking Ford engine and not one seen previously by mortals. All I got from Don was it was an "experimental engine". I guess it was! A genuine Boss Ford engine to be exact. I have now been told. The engine was set up too run E85 ethanol fuel. The Mustang ran a 9.04 on the maiden run on a very hot day. The car is running in the 8's in a heavy car. Don is now in his late 60's but still can drive a stick car as good as any. The link is too the NMRA racing site and Power TV. You get too see Don Bowles with the car and footage of the engine. So here is our first look at the new engine.They do not talk about it other than too say they will talk at a future time.http://www.nmratv.com/index.php?stream=http://www.nmratv.com/video/racecoverage/milan07/Roush.flv&playlist=1
Personally i'm not a big fan of this motor being called "boss" as in my eyes that only fitting for the boss 429's of 69 and 70, but hey thats me. Cool stuff none the less, and no mistaking that for anything but a new mod motor of some sorts.
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Personally i'm not a big fan of this motor being called "boss" as in my eyes that only fitting for the boss 429's of 69 and 70, but hey thats me. Cool stuff none the less, and no mistaking that for anything but a new mod motor of some sorts.
So BOSS 302's and BOSS 351's were not worthy either???
Do you guy's really think Ford would have a supposed new engine out in public and let it be filmed?
That engine might be something Roush Racing is working on,
the 302's/351c were great motors, and the cars were desvering of the boss name, but the motors had a long way to go to be anything near what a boss 9 could do (my dad had one, at least 550horse with only headers and a dual tunnel ram with 2 550holley dp's, with the 4.56's and slicks it'd pull the front end off the ground in second).
Yes i do think ford would do that, and the way they are doing it they could say just that, a rousch experimental piece and avoid some of the questions, or it could be a new crate only motor, kinda like the old 427 sohc.
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Recently on American Muscle Car on Speed they did a shoot out of 5 of the old muscle car engines. 409 chevy, 421 SD Pontiac, 427 Ford, 426 Hemi, and 427 Chevy. They were testing to see if the engines would produce the power that the manufacturers claimed. I cant remember all of them but the 409 made 406 hp (409 claimed) the 421 made something like 488 hp (430 or so claimed) the Ford 427 pumped out 637hp and I don't remember the claimed hp, the Hemi made 820hp, and the chevy 427 was about 570 hp. Pretty good show if you can catch it. Not to jack the thread but I just thought it was interesting since you were talking about the old Boss motors.
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