06-02-2015, 06:30 PM | #71 | |
Drives: 2013 Triple Black ZL1 Vert M6 ECF Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Trenton, Michigan
Posts: 7,047
|
Quote:
|
|
06-02-2015, 06:45 PM | #72 |
Drives: 99z28 with bolt-ons and a mwc fab 9 Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,277
|
So they machined the heads to be lighter. I wonder if that will have any sealing or other issues when boosted?
__________________
I like my woman like my milk shakes, THICK!!!!
|
06-02-2015, 07:12 PM | #73 |
Rice Harvester
Drives: 2014 Bright Yellow 2SS/RS Join Date: May 2008
Location: Plainview, TX
Posts: 1,449
|
What's really fascinating is that this car was meant mainly as a replacement for the BOSS. Makes me wonder what else they've got up their sleeve.
|
06-02-2015, 07:46 PM | #74 |
Lets roll...
Drives: 14' Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: TX/S.FL
Posts: 1,496
|
My predictions are that the z28 will still beat the 350 but will get edged out by the R version.
__________________
|
06-02-2015, 08:06 PM | #75 | |
Account Suspended
Drives: 2015 Mustang GT. Supercharged. Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: South Jersey
Posts: 971
|
Quote:
|
|
06-02-2015, 08:07 PM | #76 |
1st Civ. Div.
Drives: Camaroless for now...RIP "Big SexZ" Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Savannah, Ga
Posts: 2,726
|
The GT350R should have been built to beat the out going Z/28 and if it can't thoroughly beat our Z/28 then it has to be another setback for ford like the 15 Mustang GT PP is in comparison to the 1LE. We will see if their guys are as exceptional as our guys have been and continue to be in GM's performance group.
Competition is grand and we all win in the end.
__________________
Swift....Silent....Deadly
|
06-02-2015, 08:08 PM | #77 |
Track > 1/4 Mile
|
Not much but the LS7 has more hp and tq everywhere except the last 1,500 rpms or so.
__________________
|
06-02-2015, 08:27 PM | #78 |
Drives: 2SS/RS CGM LS3 Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: NJ
Posts: 1,619
|
I think the car will be bad ass... These are pretty sick cars for the money, we are splitting hairs here...
|
06-02-2015, 08:45 PM | #79 |
Account Suspended
Drives: 2015 Redhot 1LE Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Westchester NY
Posts: 1,409
|
|
06-02-2015, 10:13 PM | #80 |
Drives: 2013 A6 GT 5.0 Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Edmond, OK
Posts: 2,909
|
If they test the R vs the Z28 Ford better hope it wins. Hopefully they bought a Z28 this time and tested against it. Not like the 1LE debacle of looking past it and never doing their own R&D against it. The 6th gen R came out after and will be going up against a dead 5th gen platform with a dead engine that has been around since 2005!!!!!. The R will have more advertised HP with less weight as well.
Seems like a lose lose situation to me for Ford. If it wins people will look at it like OK it should have. If it loses its a embarrassment. The only silver lining would be the price difference of advertised MSRP but your likely going to spend the same exact amount for both cars in the real world. People comparing a engine that has been around since 2005 to one coming out later this year in 2015???? Priceless.
__________________
BLK/BLK 1SS/RS Ordered 11-01-2009 Took delivery 12-22-2009. Heads/cam/converter/bolt ons. SOLD Feb 2015 to fund 6th gen LT1 SS with 8L90E.
|
06-02-2015, 10:38 PM | #81 | |
Drives: 14 Silverado LTZ Z71, 16 Camaro SS Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Jackson, Michigan
Posts: 4,407
|
Quote:
The ls7 is great but damn it's a decade old. Like some have been talking about... An updated ls7 (lt7?)could EASILY make 550 hp and well over 500 tq. Coupled to a new chassis roughly equal in weight to a gt350. With dedicated focus/engineering toward handling like they did with gen 5 z. I can only dream that gm goes this route. It would be game over...until next round I think sales or possible lack of could prevent this. But I would hope if they could nail it for the right price sales should follow. Wonder what they are thinking....? |
|
06-02-2015, 10:38 PM | #82 | |
Drives: 2010 Camaro SS/RS Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: somewhere in MD
Posts: 4,883
|
Quote:
__________________
2010 2SS/RS
Z/28 intake, NW, FAST 102, speed engineering LT's, some exhaust, ATI -10% pulley, GM flex fuel injectors, DSX flex fuel sensor, MGW shifter, HP Tuners, some suspension work, stickers and a little weight loss. 12.63 @113.53 |
|
06-02-2015, 11:04 PM | #83 | |
Drives: 2013 A6 GT 5.0 Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Edmond, OK
Posts: 2,909
|
Quote:
Congrats Ford. You made a NA engine that makes more HP than a 10year old LS7.
__________________
BLK/BLK 1SS/RS Ordered 11-01-2009 Took delivery 12-22-2009. Heads/cam/converter/bolt ons. SOLD Feb 2015 to fund 6th gen LT1 SS with 8L90E.
|
|
06-02-2015, 11:45 PM | #84 | |
Account Suspended
Drives: Several in a big garage Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Nashville
Posts: 628
|
Quote:
|
|
Post Reply
|
|
|