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Message: <blockquote data-quote="smurfslayer" data-source="post: 1768912" data-attributes="member: 21926">But it doesn’t.  302 is a good choice for the Mustang, but less so for a 5700 pound truck.  It doesn’t produces anywhere near as much peak torque as the 3.5TT and in N/A form getting it to produce that kind of torque would be a huge and certainly compromise the engine’s reliability.  The 3.5 OTOH produces good, abundant torque and maintains it well.  FTO is pointing out that the 302 wasn’t designed from the jump to be forced induction, the 3.5TT was.  Do both engines have room for modifications to produce more power? sure.  How much?  Outside the “bolt on” window of relatively small increases in power, when you start replacing hard parts or putting on a power adder, reliability and durability is necessarily going to suffer.  Would it be nice if there was a 2nd power plant option for the Rap?  Sure, but the 5.0 really isn’t an ideal choice.  7.3 could be, but it would depend on the tune given to it.  You would have an easier time getting respectable torque out of the 7.3, but the top end in N/A form would be about where the 3.5TT is   to maybe 500?  - it has to run on regular gas, from Gnome, Alaska to Death Valley, CA hauling payload.</blockquote>

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