Over the past couple of months we have been hearing reports that Ford was building a twin turbo version of their new 5.0L engine, which recently was unveiled in the 2011 Ford Mustang GT. We regret that there has been confirmation from various sources that there will be no twin turbo GT500 coming.
Autoblog talked to Ford chief engineer, Mike Harrison, the brains behind the new 5.0L and 6.2L engines, he explained that building and designing such a configuration would be nearly impossible due to the lack of room in the engine compartment. "There is evidently no room to mount the turbos on the outside of the block where the exhaust currently resides. One possibility would be to put the turbos in the valley of the block similar to the new 6.7-liter diesel or BMW's 4.4-liter twin-turbo V8, but this creates a bunch of new problems as well. The heat generated by having the turbos up top would probably cause the paint on the hood to bubble and peel unless Ford could add some exotic and undoubtedly expensive heat shielding, which is unlikely to happen."
The GT500 doesn’t look like it will be getting any improvements to the new model, but do expect the GT500 to keep the 5.4L engine for 2011.
Autoblog talked to Ford chief engineer, Mike Harrison, the brains behind the new 5.0L and 6.2L engines, he explained that building and designing such a configuration would be nearly impossible due to the lack of room in the engine compartment. "There is evidently no room to mount the turbos on the outside of the block where the exhaust currently resides. One possibility would be to put the turbos in the valley of the block similar to the new 6.7-liter diesel or BMW's 4.4-liter twin-turbo V8, but this creates a bunch of new problems as well. The heat generated by having the turbos up top would probably cause the paint on the hood to bubble and peel unless Ford could add some exotic and undoubtedly expensive heat shielding, which is unlikely to happen."
The GT500 doesn’t look like it will be getting any improvements to the new model, but do expect the GT500 to keep the 5.4L engine for 2011.
