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Originally Posted by SSfriendly
It’s obvious Ford doesn’t care, the 1le has been out long enough to benchmark against and they chose (on the pp1) to equip it with inferior components. It took the pride of the engineers to come up with a PP2 package meant to compete with the 1le.
The PP1 was a marketing and profit decision by ford, plain and simple. I’m actually surprised management let the PP2 come to fruition.
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I am looking forward to two things with the PP2. One is obviously the lap time of the PP2 compared to 1LE. I think the 1LE will still take it, but I think Ford will be happy with a delta of less than a second.
The second thing I am looking forward to is how repeatable is that performance in the PP2. The GT350 without the track pack overheated on sustained multi lap sessions. Now I put the blame on the drivers as Ford offered the proper cooling equipment, but they elected not to buy it and stuck with the GT350 trim level that was meant for those who just wanted the Voodoo V8. Now it's a different story if Ford charged too much, packaged wrong, etc but that was a choice the drivers made when buying it. The older GT500's had issues with the brakes and got slower for every additional lap.
Ford still recommends aux coolers for track days with the PP2, but instead of equipping the car with such coolers, they put it on the owners to buy and install them. They don't even offer to get them equipped from the factory. So for a car purely setup for the track, I consider that a huge blunder/oversight if those recommended aux coolers is proven to be necessary for track days or just legalise to protect Ford/give them something to point to if you bring the car in for warranty work due to it overheating.
So the performance of the PP2 might be there, but it will be curious if it can be sustainable performance or just developed to do well in the magazine tests.