Fastest Ford Mustang Part 14 : 2013 Shelby GT500

With a car like this, you will inevitably focus on the numbers. The $ 54,995 GT500 coupe becomes a 0-60 sprint of 3.5 seconds. Fiercely high gear means third gear is good for 140 mph in first gear is long enough to reach highway speeds. Still, the quarter mile in 11.8 seconds passes. Resulting in a change to the red line from second to third, and hear the rear tires screech. We also saw a further 1.00 g on the skid pad.

 

A college professor of mine once used the word "big juice" to describe the nuclear tests on the soil of the United States in the 1940s, which vaporize entire Pacific atolls. Now I will borrow the phrase: This car is the largest juice.

Heart of the Matter

The GT500 was developed by Ford's SVT division, same laboratory responsible loon GT and Ford F-150 SVT Raptor. Like a lot of products SVT it seems dominated by its motor. The 5.8-liter supercharged V-8 with 631 pounds-feet under the hood is a punched out of aluminum block version 5.4 used in the 2011-12 GT500, which was itself essentially a wet sump evolution of the used V-8 the GT. Massive stroke last engine 105.8 mm remains, but balloons cylinders caliber 93.5 mm to 90.2 mm. (Ford says the bloc is now at its limit and can stretch no larger.) The compression ratio is raised from 8.4: 1 to 9.0. Like its predecessor, the 5.8 gauge coatings using plasma transferred arc wire and billet main bearing caps, but also to create a larger oil pump, an aluminum crankcase, piston oil squirters and additional cooling ducts. The Eaton supercharger engine in the valley displaces 2.3 liters, faster than the last GT500 turns blower, cranks out 14.0 psi maximum boost (vs. 9.0) and carry more power to operate than is produced by the current Ford Fiesta. It seems big enough to inhale a small dog.

SVT chief engineer Jamal Hameedi says the program 2013 "began with an engine and then bled to touch every part of the car." Open car looking new front air intake no actual radiator grille, just a mouth the size of Kansas that allows you to reach in and annoy a couple of heat-exchangers that it is difficult to doubt. (Question for the future owners '13 GT500: How much does a bird strike this thing intake vacuum is capable of 100 pigeons?).

According Hameedi, the GT500 development team focused on three bogies: 650 horsepower, 600 pounds-feet and 200 mph. The production car engine exceeds the objectives, but the added grunt requires a lot of driveline upgrades, and the figure of 200 mph necessitated a lot of additional cooling capacity. Twin fuel pumps (pump of a Mustang GT single bid, twice), higher fuel injectors a grippier and larger diameter clutch, a larger fan, three-row intercooler (the former used car unit double row), one reinforced up to Tremec 6060 six-speed internal oil pump, and a drive shaft one-piece carbon fiber come on the trip. The carbon shaft is lighter and stronger than its predecessor of two pieces of steel, but above all, do not use a central support bearing, cutting friction losses. Also there resonates between 150 and 200 mph as the old unit. Large Brembo front disc brakes with six-piston calipers, reinforced shaft tube, and countless small aerodynamic tweaks stuff GT500 round base.

It is not, as expected, more. The optional Performance package adds adjustable dampers and a limited slip rear differential Torsen. Sort performance package allows a buyer to select the Track package, which aims at the racetrack work and brings a transmission cooler, differential cooler mounted in the nose for the Torsen limited-slip unit, and un-air-oil engine oil cooler (the previous drive unit uses a water-oil). If you ask nicely, Ford will send a technician to sit in the passenger seat, supplement your girlish figure, and lavender water mist on your face every time you try to Vmax.

Well, I made that last one. But the point is that if you want to make a pound Mustang blown out 662 ponies and hit two bills in the exercise of a guarantee, the answer is apparently to build a heat exchanger on wheels with the greatest of all. After throwing it over the radiator. Possibly more after that.

The rest of the car is essentially a 2012 GT500 much massage. Base cars get a higher front roll bar and retuned springs. An electronic control function adjustable launch rpm is standard, as are four-mode electronic stability control.