Yes, those Godzilla 7.3's are a great platform. Very easy to get 1,000+HP. The quickest Ford powered car in the world is Coyote based. MMR hit 5.67 260+ in the 1/4 several years ago.
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Yes, Ford abandoned Muscle Trucks after the 2004 Lightning. The Raptor R doesn't really count. It's too fat and wrong suspension to race except off road, and was only built to sell against the TRX.Slim to None and Slim left town.
I'm sure Ford feels that a 250 horsepower EcoBoost 4 cyl. is perfectly sized for the truck. Forcing anybody wants a V6 to upgrade to a Ranger or F-150.
They are both
With DOHC and 4 valve heads the Coyotes to make crazy power.
The downside is the width of the engine.
The Godzilla is one of the most efficient 2 valve pushrod engines.
And, it is narrower than the Coyote.
Godzilla takes a lot more work to make 4 digit power though, and it is longer than the Coyote.
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Passing gas stations is what the hybrid is for.Looks like you can pass everything else on the road but a gas station...
Yes. If anyone were ti convert a Maverick to A V8, a Coyote would fit better than a 7.3. Many other vehicles (think 60's Mustangs) the 7.3 would fit better. Just depends what to are swapping to.
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I friend of minne squeezed a 5.4 Mod motor in a 63 FalconYes. If anyone were ti convert a Maverick to A V8, a Coyote would fit better than a 7.3. Many other vehicles (think 60's Mustangs) the 7.3 would fit better. Just depends what to are swapping to.
My hybrid has plenty of guts. i hope Ford doesn,t screw with a good thing. Just work the bugs out, and change that odd front facia!
BTW.You want a hot rod change out the engine yourself.
BTW.You want a hot rod change out the engine yourself.
do a quick web search for "miata coyote swap". There have been plenty.
The problem with a v8 swap in a Miata is that the swap is cheep (off the shelf kits you can order!), but then you have to spend more than that on the suspension (a stock simple 5.0 dropped in left the test car floating off it's suspension as it hit 150!). You also usually lose the AC (which where I live, is a big deal. You can feel the stock Miata AC at 80 with the top down!)
Cadillac Northstar. 300hp, just plain awesome. It's not trying to race out of control, but you ask for torque, and it casually supplies, just like a big block.
I liked the 200HP of the prior 4.9 in a '92 Eldorado Touring Coupe, but the 300 is just spectacular. Going up a grade at 70 or 80 and need power? no problem. No fuss, no whine, just torque.
A friend had me drive his 400hp Mercedes, similar size and. mass to my '97 Eldorado ETC, just to show me.
You could tell the difference in response at full throttle--but it was "can tell", not "wow". For that size/mass, 300 really covers all you can use under normal situations--whereas the change in response from 200 to 300 is nice in normal driving.
[OK, I have a car problem in general, and more specifically a Cadillac problem. I'm about to build an oversized six car garage, and a Northstar is one of the "must havs]
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I'm assuming it was '71 or older? deduct almost a third of HP to compare, as the switch to reporting net instead of gross happened in '72. Just as an example, the '71 Eldorado reported 365hp, while the '72 reported 235 hp--but they're practically identical. (the '71 used the higher compression cam from the '70 , but the net & gross for the two years are identical. ). Some other vehicles had lower proportionate drop, but almost /3 is a vaguely good fuzzy estimate.
So call that 250hp when comparing.
Also, peak HP was at far lower RPM on those old engines!
If you put the power curves from my '72 Eldorado with a 500 and 235 net hp, and my '97 edorado ETC with a Northstar and 300 net hp side by side, the nominally higher HP Northstar isn't even close to the HP & torque the 500 puts out at the same RPM, up until past the peak power of the 500.
If you could defy the laws of physics to somehow cram the 500 into the engine bay of the '97, and then connect it, it would rip the transmission out! (that said, put them side by side, and the older one will quickly see the taillights of the ligh4er newer one!)
Hey, leave my '72 out of this!Looks like you can pass everything else on the road but a gas station...
It can get double digit MPG. Well, coasting downhill with the engine off, and . . .
Wow that was a lot of run on to delete. While rated at 360 HP, it was a 68 429 Thunderjet. Those actually were underrated by Ford and put out close to 400HP on an engine dyno stock. They were 11:1 compression rated (actual closer to 10.5) and chassis dynoed at 320 with good fuel. Net losses were real for engines back then, but many were underrated from the factory. The 429 Cobra jet versions (370HP rated) put out 425-450HP on an engine dyno.
In my teen years, I only bought big block cars. Still have one. Got it at 19. My 73 Cutlass Supreme 455 4 speed. It's at 550HP, 670TQ.
And, it's not like it's hurting. For average on the road it's very adequate.
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