What a brief, unusual journey it has been with Ford’s 7.3-liter Godzilla V8 fuel engine. The automaker debuted the brand new coronary heart of the Tremendous Obligation vary on the 2019 Chicago Auto Present, admitting the engine would match into the F-150 pickup and the Mustang however saying there was all however no likelihood it will put them in both product. Ford did do tuners the enormous stable of providing Godzilla as a crate engine that works with a 10-speed automated. Not even a yr later, YouTuber Evan Smith, generally known as REVan Evan, adopted a drag racer and tuner collaborating on a Mustang dragster construct utilizing the 7.3-liter. The Drive realized that very same YouTuber has simply confirmed as much as clear up a thriller from earlier this yr. In March, spy photographers caught a Mustang prototype fitted with a weird hood bulge. Scrutineers posited each idea about what it may very well be, together with the supposition of a Godzilla-powered Mustang. Revan Evan reveals these guesses had been right.
There’s a 540-pound iron lump within the engine bay, however there is no manufacturing facility Mustang deliberate to come back from it. As Ford engineers clarify within the video, they’re engaged on a crate engine and transmission bundle that may pair Godzilla with a guide gearbox. The Mustang GT350 mule chosen for testing duties is without doubt one of the prototype fleet obtainable to make use of that was “simply mendacity round,” so engineers used it. The polygonal hood protrusion is to clear the consumption as a result of the throttle physique at entrance of the engine, as designed for the Tremendous Obligation vans, is angled up. This necessitates throttle neck piping that rises additional earlier than being angled 90 levels and descending to a cold-air consumption. The ultimate crate bundle will characteristic adjustments corresponding to a horizontal throttle physique that may slide beneath a Mustang’s pure strains, in addition to barely shorter runners that bump up the redline and a bigger throttle flange that works with the Mustang GT500.
In the meanwhile, the 7.3-liter and 10-speed auto combo prices $19,995. Ford Efficiency plans to place the brand new drivetrain on sale earlier than the tip of the yr, “very competitively priced.”
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