Durability issues killed it.Damn, I was hoping for a flat plane crank and a shaker hood.
Yeah, I can see why there would be issues. It is one thing for a ferrari to use a flat plane crank in a car that sees that sees 20,000 miles in a decade vs. a Ford that sees that in a year.Durability issues killed it.
What's perhaps more telling is that Ferrari used a more sensible amount of stroke (81mm in the F430 and 458) for their flat-plane V8's, vs 93mm for the Voodoo. What's interesting to note is that the 458 Ferrari and the Voodoo both have 94mm bore dimensions, so there shouldn't be too much difference in piston weight.Yeah, I can see why there would be issues. It is one thing for a ferrari to use a flat plane crank in a car that sees that sees 20,000 miles in a decade vs. a Ford that sees that in a year.
Well that was weird as hell. LOL!!!
Durability issues killed it.
I don't think that the durability issues were due to the crank being flat plane rather than cross plane, but rather due to the fact that some owners beat the snot out of them from day one.
The Voodoo does indeed have a long stroke for a flat plane crank engine, and since the safe maximum mean piston speed for a forged steel crank/rod combination is ~5000ft/min, that limits the Voodoo to 8250rpm. Other shorter stroke engines can safely spin to 9000+.
The new Mach 1 definitely needs a more powerful engine than the GT, and it's likely it'll get the same engine spec as the Bullitt. This would neatly bridge the gap between the 460hp GT and the 526hp GT350.
One way or another a Shaker hood is an absolute must with grabber orange and grabber blue included in the color menu. Indeed I think these should be the only colors offered together with black decals of course.
5000 fpm is really a bit too much for a street engine. Even the 20,000 rpm capable 2.4L Formula 1 engines wouldn't have been much over 5000, and those were essentially unlimited-budget engine builds. Seems to me that 4500 fpm @ 8500 would have been a far more realistic target, except that the modular engine design would then only be able to support about 4.5 liters of engine displacement.The Voodoo does indeed have a long stroke for a flat plane crank engine, and since the safe maximum mean piston speed for a forged steel crank/rod combination is ~5000ft/min, that limits the Voodoo to 8250rpm. Other shorter stroke engines can safely spin to 9000+.
5000 fpm is really a bit too much for a street engine.