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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mberger111" data-source="post: 1025745" data-attributes="member: 11603">I thought the same thing, but 550 Lb/ft also sounds higher than they would go.  But the standard 3.5 outdid estimates by 20 Lb/ft too so who knows.  In a high speed truck not designed just for towing I imagine they can change some things to get more HP rather than TQ, but I honestly don't know much about how that works.  Having said that, I actually have never heard Ford say that HP will be higher.  Just that "power" will be higher and then they go on to talk about torque so in some ways I wouldn't be surprised if it was 400 HP and 500 Lb/ft.  I think you could argue that's still more power than the 6.2 although I'd feel misled.  Definitely power to weight would be higher (16% is the number in the official Ford docs.)</blockquote>

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