6.2 pedigree

[ZBoater]

How much to the Roush or Shelby Raptors put out?

 

[TurboEd]

Good question.

 

[Bulletnjm]

I personally in MY OPINION I would not go past 590, simply because I love my Raptor and drive it every day and plan on keeping it. I also say 590 because that is what Roush goes too and I feel that they know what they are doing. But personally I'm fine with my 5 star, K&N CAI and Magnaflow. I have plenty of power. It's a truck not a drag car.

 

[TurboEd]

Agree. Thanks, good info.

 

[Wilson]

I have 361 nuff for me. E-30 rocks
It's in sig

 

[Cleave]

I believe the stock pistons and rods are forged, the crank is cast, from what I've read it has 6 bolt mains (although I've never had mine apart to confirm) and biggest is making well over 800 horsepower to the stock crank (what I would've thought to be the engine's first major weak link)

 

[sabumaru]

You might be able to go well over 1000horses
Its just also about heating the engine up before unleashing all the horses

And offcourse a question about how far you wanna go
Rebuilding / Major maintance every:
-200.000 miles
-100.000 miles
- 50.000 miles
- 25.000 miles
Etc

forced induction and cheap parts bring the number down
High end parts...propper driving...maintance ( oil changes etc)"bring the number up

And yea the daily driver discussion
Dusty deserts versus forced induction

 

[SVT_4X4]

Stock pistons are cast, which I personally think is the weakest link. Rods are powdered metal. I am running 580 hp / 580 torque. When I had Livernois tune mine I asked for it to be conservative. Big thing is not to have it run lean, which will kill a cast piston. I have 26,000 miles on mine now with the supercharger and run the heck out of it. Was just commenting this weekend at the dunes it is amazing what this stock motor can handle. It was recommended to me and I did install headers and true dual exhaust to let it breath easier.

 

[Hoverp]

Good discussion points

 

[Jordan@Apollo-Optics]

Ford makes a decent engine, on all their cars, now. Hell, the 5.0 mustang can handle 650-700rwhp pretty easily with a TT kit on low boost.

Ford has figured out the aftermarket is huge and people are going to put blowers or turbos on their car. They don't have to make the engines as strong as they do, but they know keeping customers happy keeps them buying more vehicles.