Put down the crack pipe.. Yes the new 3.5L EB is a nice motor. The reason it is in the GT is due to its size and weight. 600hp in that light & small package works well and 3.5L is the largest size motor you can have with forced induction with GARRA for competition. That is why it has that motor.
But sorry to inform you I can take a 5.0l Coyote, 5.4/5.8L and even the 6.2L with proper internals and head work and make well over 1000hp and ungodly amounts of TQ that your EB will be drooling over. You really will never want to go with bigger Turbos on the 3.5l with the Raptor as you will be adding more lag to the low end. Where as a bigger displacement V8 can utilize a bigger turbo and not have the same lag allowing it to produce better numbers down low and up top.
Yes the new EB is a sweet motor for specific uses, but if you think it can stand up to a properly setup V8 with TT's or even a large whipple you need to lay off the drugs. The Raptor weighs a lot more than the GT, so while in the GT it will have super car performance and can be tuned to rev higher and even utilize bigger turbos, the raptor needs lots of mid range power so my guess is that its going to be tuned to give great bottom end and sacrifice a little on the top end where its not as important as it would be on a high performance car.
