daredevil95

[QUOTE=FastDEW;7408577]The Ecoboost in that Lincoln runs 4.5 0-60 and stock it was 5.2. The 1/4 was 13.08 and stock was still low 14's. That is in a heavy Lincoln Sedan. Would love to see this engine put into a Mustang!!!!

I could understand the enthusiasm of a high powered turbo, but it takes away from what the pony experience was meant to be....I'll pass on the turbo. If this was to happen the definition of pony will have been changed....turbo's and pony cars have been around for decades, if a pony car was meant to be turbo....it would of caught on years ago. I wouldn't mind seeing the 3.5 Ecoboost in an all-wheel drive ford Focus....that would be flippin sick!!!!

Diabolical!

I'm not. I'm just comparing engines. If a 3.8 liter turbo can power a fantastic performance car, why can't a 3.5 liter turbo?

Diabolical!

Even though it would blow up in less than 6 years?

LostBoyz

Thanks daredevil95, I forgot that there had been no engineering since the 1980s. I too try to base all of my information on things that happened 30 years ago. I mean its not like there has been any innovation since then.

pdonket

It's entertaining to see threads run out of control these days.

daredevil95

I'm here to help....your learning.

modru2004

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_car
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pony_car

i find it funny that there seems to be a distinct difference in the definitions people are using for pony car and muscle car.

some are using a narrow and specific definition and others are using am uch broader definition.

secondly id like to point out that v8's were used back in the day because it was the easiest way to make power. want more power? use a bigger engine, no replacement for displacement right!?

wrong

technology has come a long way. there are alternatives displacement. you can make much more power with much smaller engines these days.

if you had the technology we have today back in the original muscle/pony car era things likely would have been VERY different.

the only reason we have nay sayers to the v6 is because they look back on the olden muscle car days with nostalgia and don't want things to change.

fact of the matter is things change. v8's aren't the end all be all godlike engines a certain person is making them out to be.

lets be truthful, the only reason people blow there engines are by pushing them beyond what they were DESIGNED to handle.

even most stock NA engines can handle low levels of boost safely. its the people that keep pushing it, just a little more boost, without building there engine for it that end up destroying it.

the 3.5l ecoboost engine was DESIGNED from the ground up to be a boosted engine.