Maybe 511 HP? Does that change your feeling.

[Raptor911]

From Road&Track:

Calling the 3.5-liter EcoBoost V6 that's destined for the new Ford GT and second-generation Raptor pickup a high-output version is a bit disingenuous. Ford basically wiped the slate clean to make it, retaining only the displacement measurement—and, you know, the fact it has six cylinders in a vee configuration fed by turbochargers and direct injection.

It starts with a new block, heads, pistons, and intake, plus bigger turbos. Ford adds a dual-injection system, a combination of port and direct fuel injection, like Subaru uses on the BRZ/FR-S motor. That makes the H.O. 3.5 the first and only EcoBoost engine to use port injection. Ford calls this a second-generation EcoBoost, so maybe that dual-injection scheme will spread to other engines.

 

[RLTW]

Just playing devil's advocate, I don't think it's that much of a stretch. First off, the tech is there already. We know the truck can handle it since Hennessy does much more in the velociraptor with a stock drivetrain. On the engine side, it's really a question of boost pressure. After market is already close to, if not over 500 already with the current 3.5, and the GT is over 6 with the same engine. I think it's more a question of longevity, and I'd bet that Ford has engines on the dyno still, testing just what's possible.

I mean, if it's 450 stock, you know the aftermarket will have it at 500+.

I'm curious if it's a 'track only' engine mode if it counts against CAFE averages.

I don't know if they'd do it or not, but breaking a big round number like 500 is a big deal psychologically speaking. The press would eat it up, and with these cars, that's really what they're after - they're halo cars, and while I'm sure Ford wants to sell as many as they can, what they really want is the press.

Not sure what any of this has to do with immigration.

Lol at using hennessy velocicraptor as an example.

 

[SlimChaChi]

From Road&Track:

Calling the 3.5-liter EcoBoost V6 that's destined for the new Ford GT and second-generation Raptor pickup a high-output version is a bit disingenuous. Ford basically wiped the slate clean to make it, retaining only the displacement measurement—and, you know, the fact it has six cylinders in a vee configuration fed by turbochargers and direct injection.

It starts with a new block, heads, pistons, and intake, plus bigger turbos. Ford adds a dual-injection system, a combination of port and direct fuel injection, like Subaru uses on the BRZ/FR-S motor. That makes the H.O. 3.5 the first and only EcoBoost engine to use port injection. Ford calls this a second-generation EcoBoost, so maybe that dual-injection scheme will spread to other engines.

Don't see gremlins listed as a feature...


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[ovrlnd]

Lol at using hennessy velocicraptor as an example.

true

 

[mberger111]

511 would be awesome

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But I thought it was pretty much confirmed to be 450? Which is still good with the weight

 

[Wilson]

I thought it was 412

 

[mike.s]

Breaking news!

Using advanced computer forensics, the source of this rumor has been uncovered:

 

[Crikk]

I think the new one looks good, not great but good. I definitely am going to want a new one, but I just don't want the v6! All of these feelings proved to be true last week when I got to see the new one in person at the auto show. I remember when I saw the gen1 at the same auto show, I stared for like an hour. My want level was through the roof. Did not get the same feeling from the new one.

Then I was reminded why I don't want the v6 leaving the show. I was on the 5th story of a packed parking garage. I have headers and Corsa on my big bad V8!! There was a guy in a srt8 challenger with pipes 3 cars up. We had so much fun leaving setting off car alarms. It must have sounded like thunder from a mile away. The whole ride home all I could think about was how I love how my truck sounds, not how much I liked the new one.

 

[Ruger]

You know what I think is funny? The Ford commercials for the alloy body F-150 say it's "military grade" aluminum without mentioning the actual aluminum alloy grade, and they show a line drawing of an M1A1 main battle tank. As anyone with a military background knows, the "body" material of the M1A1 has no aluminum at all. It's made of a multilayer armor matrix that was invented in Britain and perfected in the US, and its makeup and manufacturing process remains a classified national secret. The body of the new F-150 has absolutely nothing in common with the tank depicted in the commercials.

Oh that Raptors could be made of something similar to Chobham armor, whatever airplane black boxes are made of, or the "memory metal" that high-end eyeglass frames are made of! But there's nothing that sophisticated (spelled e-x-p-e-n-s-I-v-e) in the new Raptor. If there were, we wouldn't be arguing about 500+ hp turbocharged V6's, we'd be discussing the benefits of ceramic engine blocks.

 

[ZaneMasterX]

You know what I think is funny? The Ford commercials for the alloy body F-150 say it's "military grade" aluminum without mentioning the actual aluminum alloy grade, and they show a line drawing of an M1A1 main battle tank. As anyone with a military background knows, the "body" material of the M1A1 has no aluminum at all. It's made of a multilayer armor matrix that was invented in Britain and perfected in the US, and its makeup and manufacturing process remains a classified national secret. The body of the new F-150 has absolutely nothing in common with the tank depicted in the commercials.

Oh that Raptors could be made of something similar to Chobham armor, whatever airplane black boxes are made of, or the "memory metal" that high-end eyeglass frames are made of! But there's nothing that sophisticated (spelled e-x-p-e-n-s-I-v-e) in the new Raptor. If there were, we wouldn't be arguing about 500+ hp turbocharged V6's, we'd be discussing the benefits of ceramic engine blocks.

"Military Grade" is a marketing buzzword they started to use because Chevy came out out with those Steel v Aluminum cage v bear commercials.