The most disappointing part is people not understanding why Ford put the 3.5 EB in the GT, and simply hating on it without knowing the back story. The GT is coming out for the 50th anniversary of the 1-2-3 win at LeMans. They want to compete again. The engine limit for the class the GT fits into limits the displacement size at I believe 4 liters for forced induction vehicles. So in order to be competitive, the 3.5 TT ecoboost was the ticket for the GT to go back out and compete to WIN. It wasn't a car built just to look cool and get a big giant high power motor to not fit into any classes to race.
A 3.5 EB equipped car just won the 24 hour Rolex race. They're on track for taking home some wins with the GT.
I do agree with you there, and dig up some of my old posts it said the same thing, the 6.2 was outdated before it even came out. The odd bore spacing compared to every other Ford mod motor, the iron block, the 2v heads, etc. It would have been a KILLER HIGH TECH motor back in the early 2000's. It was a decade too late. It's not outdated per say, but it's not high tech by any means. It's essentially a larger version of the old 2v 5.4 from the early 2000's. Bigger bore, bigger bore spacing, same style iron block, same style 2v heads, just an extra plug per cylinder.
The 5.8 motor you mentioned was simply a bored out 5.4. Yes there's some other slight differences, but that's the platform it was built out of.
The 5.2 is a bored 5.0 with a flat plane crank. I think you'll only see the 5.2 stick to the GT350/GT350R since it's a high revving flat plane crank motor.
I do wish they'd dump some tech into a V8 and either make a cross plane crank 5.2 with forced induction, or come up with a new platform v8 engine. Unfortunately I don't think you'll see big displacement v8's anytime soon.
Plus think back to the late 90's at Ford when the 5.4 v8 mod motor replaced the 5.8 v8 pushrod motor, and the 4.6 v8 mod motor replaced the 5.0 v8 pushrod motor, and the 4.2 v6 mod motor replaced the 4.9 I6 pushrod motor. People were all upset Ford was going smaller, big displacement pushrod was gone, small displacement mod motors were in, the end of the performance era has hit. HA! Those "small" mod motors kicked those outdated pushrod motors butts. I think we're simply in that transition phase again. Smaller displacement ecoboost engiens are coming in to replace larger n/a mod motors. It'll take some transition time, just like in 97+ the early 5.4 and 4.6 weren't all that impressive, but a few years later the 5.4 Lightning, 4.6 Cobra, 5.4 GT500's were making silly power. Give this transition a few years, I think you'll see 3.5 EBs and eventually some v8 version of a engine in trucks making silly power that make the 6.2 seem like an outdated oversized ****.
+10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 lol
Because LeMans! Educate yourself! lol
