daredevil95

Ecoboost will turn the Mustang into a throw away car. The ecoboost motor will be a good motor for the first few years then plan on spending money on it to keep it running. How many turbo cars from the last 40 years are still around....not many....if any....most of the V8 cars are still around!

JIM5.0

For the turbo part, I have to agree. The turbine/compressor wheels turn very very fast, well over 10K RPM even though the engine crank is only turning 3K RPM.
And in high boost applications where the engine is turning at redline, the turbine and compressor wheels could be turning in excess of 20K, maybe even 30K to feed the hungry engine.

As such, the very high speed moving part will definitely not last the decades a naturally aspirated engine will.

daredevil95

Lots of head gasket problems, valves, piston deterioration......a money pit!! Ask all the turbo ricers...what was on the road 2 years ago has since been junked!!

Diabolical!

Glad you mentioned this car. Proof positive that a forcefed V6 can make a beast of a muscle car.

daredevil95

Oh yea....up to certain point they make good reliable HP.....then like all turbos BOOM!! Oopps went to far!!

smokinAMD

As long as ford uses quality components and at least leaves some room under the table for us modders, I'd be quite happy with the idea of a factory turbo mustang.

But after owning a factory turbo car that was a test bed for the ecoboost platform, I'm staying far away for the time being.

Diabolical!

Fixed.

daredevil95

ok.....

Diabolical!

You throw enough HP at anything (turbo, blown, naturally aspirated, 4cyl, v6, v8, v16...) it will eventually go BOOM. The Grand National is a stout car capable of running a lot of HP, as much as anything in the Mustang's V8 stable if it's done right.

*Edit* Lol. I just noticed the differences in our sigs. Chances are we won't agree on much. Still just one big happy family here at mustang forums.

LostBoyz

everyone needs to head on over to

http://www.ford.com/trucks/f150/experiencef150/

see what they put one of these motors through. Technology has come a long way and there are a lot of reliable turbo motors. Slightly different but a guy I work with is on his second 250k mile turbo diesel truck, about to move onto a new one.

When you modify anything especially with F/I you run a chance of blowing it up. Having a stock F/I setup is no less reliable than a N/A setup. There are a lot of factors.

This doesn't negate the fact that the turbo 3.5L will not physically fit into the mustang in a north-south arrangement. It is east-west in the taurus sho and flex. Maybe in 2014.

Yes the 3.7 and 5.0 were designed for the addition of DI, but that really only means there is room to add it, there is still a lot of engineering and re-calibration to make it work properly and reliably.