semantic

OK, I missed that. All I saw was 'you have your choice between 5.0 and 2.3 turbo' or similar. Thanks for clearing that up.

semantic

I wonder what the power stats difference will be between the 3.7 and the 2.3t. I would have figured the little turbo might turn out near 300bhp since the 2.0t is rated at 270ish I thought.

Matt's 95 Stang

Its sad to think but I could see the 3.7 get even less love then the 4cyl. I always get asked "Is that a GT? No. Oh. Why didnt you get a V8?" Now its going to be something along the lines of "Oh it that the 2.3T? No. Oh. If you didn't get the GT, and its not a 2.3T....then why drive it? Its only a V6" or some **** like that.

StangDawg

Don't really care what anybody thinks about my V6. All I know is whenever someone gets in and I floor it, I typically here them say "Holy S##T" and that's enough for me.

J7erry

I love my '13 V-6, and with my CAI, it sounds great when I hit it. The 4 cyl is only supposed to be 310hp but higher torque than the 3.7l. I think the new stang looks like a 2 door Fusion. Glad I got mine before they screwed up the design.

semantic

yeah if i cared what other people thought i might have bought a Camaro SS. lucky for me i don't.

not that much anyway

hogasswild

I'm very interested to see the price difference between comparably equipped 3.7, 2.3t and 5.0s. The price spread between the current v6 and v8 leaves enough room for a whole bunch of mods that get you close to 5.0 performance. If the price between the 3.7 and 2.3t is more like $2-3k, then either you need to leave the v6 stock or just pay the extra money for the 2.3t. If it's more like $4-5k, then you can install gears, intake and exhaust mods for the v6 for $2-3k that will get you to about 350bhp for less than the unmodded 2.3t cost. However, I suspect a simple $500-750 tune for the 2.3t will get you to 360-410bhp.

hogasswild

I feel similarly. My little 3.7 rocks. I turn a lot of heads and surprise a lot of v8s on the road. I have actually taken down a few 5.0s and SSs. Challenger R/Ts were never really a match when I was stock and most of them never want to play anymore anyway.

97tplsGT

Another thing the 4banger motors have going for them as well is they should be lighter then the 3.7's. I don't know if the new design of the car as a whole is any different weight-wise, so that would determine the benefits of a lighter motor.

I'm still happy with my car and it's powerplant. The aftermarket will probably not expand for it any more then it has, and the 2.3 will likely get flooded by the aftermarket. I BET Livernois already has a tune in the works for the car. They have a 12sec explorer with just tune/exhaust, and I believe a tune only/minor weight reduction SHO in the 12's, amongst many others, so they have experience with the EB lineup.

As much potential as the new EB motor has, I think the new styling neutered Ford's sales bigtime, especially the base models.

Speaking of the 3.5 EB, I would LOVE to do a 3.5 swap into a foxbody, an SVO particularly. Tune and a little exhaust in a ~3k lb car, would make for a fun, unique, quick ride!

hogasswild

I don't know about it not expanding. There will always be buyers for the base car which will continue to add to the 3.7 population pool which will have a 4-5 year head start on the 2.3t. No doubt there will be an immediate aftermarket response to the turbo, but the 3.7 already has a whole bunch of stuff that can be done to it to get to 500 hp for less money than a stock GT costs.