davenew

While leaving the post office yesterday I noticed a red shelby gt500 in the parking lot across the street. I drove over there and asked the guy if I could take a quick look at it. He was a very nice older guy and said he drives it every day. According to him, many of those cars get bought and stuck in garages.

The car was red with two white stripes. The hood vents look great and I'd love to have the exact same type on my S4 to extract engine bay heat. The car has brembo front brakes and a huge oval intake hose with two throttle body butterflies. I'm not sure it's for me but I'm very impressed that ford put many of the extra performance features on that car. He said it has the same engine as the ford gt?? The cylinder head has a small label plate with the assembler's signature etched into it.

lemieux@curbside

i bet once Carol will not be around ..the prices will go up .. esp 30years from now

StevenH

Iron block in the gt-500 and aluminum block in the gt... Still a very cool car.

davenew

aluminum for the gt? how'd that guy get 1000hp out of it w/twin turbo?

FixedWing

The Porsche M64 engine is aluminium. It splits along the crankshaft line. Aircraft engines are similar.

Aluminium is weaker by volume but stronger by weight.

So stop dizzing aluminium! :-p

Stephen

davenew

if it's designed for a certain level of torque and you double it.. it makes you wonder when it will crack. I guess it depends on how much the thing was overdesigned to start with. In your case I think you might be OK since audi seems to overbuild everything.

box_of_partS4

First one I've seen.

FixedWing

The aluminium block is double-walled. I think that makes it very strong.

Stephen

Plutar

i lost, not bad, but I lost, def a lot of power in that thing, and yes its the same motor as the GT

davenew

I'll have to agree with you on that one