Don't get me wrong, I love my truck. It's my only vehicle and I do everything in it. But I would like to have a car to drive the times I don't need the truck. Soon I will start having to commute 70 miles a day. That's gonna take a serious toll on my finances....

 

500 horse power would accelerate you fast, for a short moment. Unfortunately the rest of the overwhelming majority of the time, the investment just to have that horse power reserve will not realize it's full potential.

If I want fast, I have the 2003 Mach 1. It will go 2.34 times faster than the highest posted legal speed limit around here with only 320 horse power. It will run from zero to 1,000 feet in 11.03 seconds.

I don't need 500+ horsepower to accelerate into traffic flow coming off the merging ramp or to be able to pass somebody --which again, the acceleration to do either of these is only for a few brief seconds out of the rest of the total time the engine would be operating.

At 70 MPH, the tach in the Mach 1 is only sitting on 2,000 RPMs. --not exactly making full use of its horse power capability or its 6,800 RPM redline (Rev limiter kicks in @ 7,200 RPMs --found that out one time on a missed shift).

I've had the Mach 1 since it was new. Going on nearly 13 years later, I don't have the need for speed like I used to and there's nowhere I need huge amounts of horse power just to accelerate for a very brief slice in time, that I can't do it with what I already have with far less horsepower and less expense incurred to be able do it.

As I said, I understand the desire to have an all-powerful engine --I used to think I wanted that too. I don't think like that anymore because I know an engine with far less horse power is more than capable of accomplishing the same thing --albeit, it may be just few fractions of a second slower but in the grand scheme of things, that would be insignificant.

If I was building a, purely, race only truck, then it might be different.

 

Chill man. If you want to be pragmatic about it then that's okay for YOUR view on life and fun.

Me? I'll go off the deep end thank you. Why? Because I can ... and will.

In other words, does anyone need 500 HP for the street? Probably not. But does anyone want 500 HP for the street (with the air conditioning blowing cold!)? Hell yes.

 

Anybody have any experience with these guys?

 

I've found the trouble with small two-three man machine shops is they have to many work interruptions from phone calls and walk ins asking about their engines.

Or prices as this can easily lead to forget where they last left off.

Simple little thinks can get over looked, even a top notch shops.
Over the yrs. I have learned to double check all work that's being done by a shop, and assemble all my own engines and stick tranny's.

This was my last engine that I had a shop do that builds Race engines. I had two rods pin bushings like this.
I returned and said One reason I came to this shop was "Not to get work like this"

Orich

 

No experience. Just had conversations and e-mails with them when I was considering an option for my 240.

 

 

I'd rather

 

HA HA! Yeah but, I was trying to get Hio to mess himself. I wonder how many seconds it took him before he googled 2016 Ford GT to see if he can find out what they're gonna sticker for.

 

Does ford even know yet? My guess was gonna be around 250, based on the previous model being around 140.

 

I have not heard yet. But I took my most recent edition of "Front Line" magazine home. I'll look through it to night to see if there's any 2016 Ford Gt info in it. Front Line is a mag from Ford to the Car Salesmen actually. But for some reason we Parts Salesmen get it also.

 

I have a few of those magazines too. Great info in them.

 

I don't need one of those super cars...but I wouldn't mind if someone gave me a free twin screw supercharger!

 

I want one of those electric clutch deals like Chuck Norris had on that ramcharger!

 

Ha! I did that last month! $400K and up. I dig the flying buttress... the air adheres to and around the cockpit to the rear wing. The tail reminds me of a 458 Italia.

Raptors are cool but waaay overpriced.

I tried on a '97 Viper GTS (solid red with the blistered roof panel so ya don't bump yer helmet). The seller has like 15 cars and needs to make room so he's put it up for $39K which is about $6K below the market. Only 17K miles on it... I sat in it, opened up hood, hatch, etc. and crawled around. Access, comfort, and ergonomics is very good. I'm gonna take it for a test drive tomorrow.

The 'bummer' is that the 97 only had 450 HP.. the 2004 pictured above, and still for sale, has like 510 HP. The 2002 to 2008s have a better body style IMO. The Gen I's look like stacked clamshells.