Originally Posted By: Olas
Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Originally Posted By: Olas
Just a musing, but perhaps Ford are on the wrong track with their engine/platform choice..
A single turbo 4 cylinder can make over 1000hp from 2 litres displacement, it seems crazy that a manufacturer as wealthy and powerful as ford don't get more power density out of their designs..
No.... This is a PRODUCTION car. There isn't a production car out there making 1,000HP from a 2L 4-banger.
I hope my post didn't read as though it was a production car, its not. It is road legal and has a full interior, though.
The point is Ford have the resources and R&D capacity to make more power from less displacement and still be as reliable as anything else. And in a fast car, more power and less weight are only attractive features.
If you take 200bhp/litre as an achievable and reliable production engine figure, the ttv6 should make at least 700. Plus Fords economic might and ability to innovate should put at least 20% on top of that, so 850 ish.
Yes, they have the resources to do it, and arguably, they've done it, and then they detune them. It was not uncommon for a turbo swap on a Terminator to net 1,000HP easily ('03-04 Cobra). A buddy of mine had one with a twin swap and it made 800 to the tires. His "daily driver" tune was 700 to the tires, and that was on 91 octane pump gas.
Then there's the Ford GT (previous generation) which has made well over 1,000RWHP on the stock internals with a turbo swap. Non-stock internals, one of them currently holds the world record for the standing mile and is rumoured to make 2300HP IIRC.
But I did touch on something else and that's the fuel required to make that kind of power too. I would be surprised if the ceiling for the 3.5L EcoBoost is 600HP (it isn't) on pump gas. But wouldn't be surprised if 91 octane limits it to around the 700HP mark.