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Originally Posted by FastCarFanBoy
Any car leaving the factory with SC2 should be capable of sustained track use. Hopefully there is a backlash shit storm for this. Ford has it coming this time... more so then with the base/tech 350’s
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The problem is, I don't think they will. The Ford fans are so fanatical, they will side with Ford even if Henry Ford slept with their wives and gave them herpes.
That's why we see the same mistakes by Ford. Chevy didn't add enough cooling capacity when they designed the C7 Corvette. They got embarrassed when magazines were trying to test the Z06, and it went into limp mode. BUT, they learned their lesson, that's why the Camaro has coolers up the ying yang. And it works great. On track, off track, anywhere.
But Ford got embarrassed by the whole GT350 Base/Tech Pack/Track Pack overheating issue, and all the Ford guys attacked the buyers. Even Zeke is here on this board preemptively saying that anyone who buys a PP2 and takes it to the track is a dummy. He's already blaming folks who haven't even bought the car yet, let alone complained. Wow.
But this time that argument is even more pathetic. Because, at least with the GT350 the jerks could argue "hey, there was a track pack with the coolers you know. Why didn't you get that?" But now they don't even have that argument with the GT, because coolers aren't even an option on this car. A car they spent tuning the MRC and aerodynamics at VIR with a race car driver giving feedback at how it does ON A TRACK AT 140 MPH. Why even waste the effort and money on that? Why adjust the aerodynamics for 140 MPH turns on a track? Why put tires on it that are only good on the track? Why not offer PP2 with the auto, or in a convertible?
Because their goal was to beat the 1LE ON A TRACK, and they hoped that it wouldn't overheat, but it did. Now they are backpedaling and saying, "well, it wasn't meant for the track".
