Dyno Test: 2024 Mustang Dark Horse | Why Ford Used a Dual-Throttle Intake & What's the Real Power? 

Nice gains. Can't wait to see some 1/4 mile runs!

$79,000 at my local dealer…a goddamn joke

Nice video with good baseline dyno run and quick, cheap easy mods showing the gains!

Free gains are always awesome. Great video, guys.

Exciting stuff!! Can't wait to see what it does on the track

Nice tests. Thanks!

Very cool thanks for sharing

love this video, so much great information.

Project crazy horse There should be no other name love the content man

Thanks for sharing guys.

Excellent video thank you.

Love it guys!!! Dark horse fighter!!!

EXCELLENT!!! Content!!! Guys!!!

Best explanation as to the two throttle bodies to date. 👌🏼

Awesome Sam is the man!

Good stuff fellas

GOOD KNOWLEDGE JUST LIKED & SUBSCRIBED

Great video. I go back and forth on liking this car, but I do love the engine and drivetrain. Encouraging results.

I'm impressed on the gains with so little effort. I can't wait to see full builds.

No clue what they changed, but the stock exhaust sounds to be the best I’ve heard so far on a coyote… 👍

Good video!

Project Blue BALLZ!!! - THX for the content!

Great video!! Impressive gains for anyone to do at home. I was hoping that there would be another pull with the air box lids removed, I've seen a couple of videos with gains. Otherwise thanks for the great content Evan!

Great video REVan..Ford to the front 100%

Got me excited! Don’t joke around about adding boost man!! 😂 what a beautiful car. Looking forward to this build.

Thanks for the good explanation on the dual throttle body carbon traps etc can you send a link of the filters that you guys order and where can I get some also thank you

Well I’m sold (already was). Definitely want the dark horse

So taking carbon traps out and putting high flow air filter on it finally matches Mach 1 WHP at 450. Not bad, still slower with the extra weight.

Project Ember Heard!

500 x .88 = 440. So 12% drivetrain loss it’s right on advertised fwhp.

Can’t believe Sam bought a blue car. Looks beautiful buddy.

Thanks for doing this videio. Can you add a link to the filters you used?

Good stuff. Sub'd.

Outstanding video, as always with Evan. Read every issue of MM&FF back in the day, while piloting my 84 Mustang GT

I just subscribed ❤

That is one gnarly horse! ❤️‍🔥 Name ideas! Cindercorn Cimmerian Cerulusian The Mistral Stallion Tizerus Gulltoppr Frightmare

Thanks for doing a good, through "magazine style", in-depth video. Nice to see the progression and incremental HP and Tq improvements. Good stuff!

Project Dark Ember!!!

Project Blue Magic 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Thanks for showing the stats. I just got my 2024 gt convertible and will be following to get ideas.

Years ago when putting a square K&N in a 92' LX 5.0 I had , it started with wrestling an enormous piece of plastic out of the front passenger side fender. 🥵 😄...A Dyno on the new RTR would be cool to see as well...FORD💪💯

The new GR86/BRZ have a carbon panel filter in the airbox as well. If you remove it, you gain approx. 10whp.

Can you please share with us the exact part number for the K&N filters?

I gotta say as someone that owns a 2014 C63 AMG with twin throttle bodies, with the 6.2 in it. It is very responsive. It is stock with 450 horse and 440 ft pounds. Ford did it right with this one for sure. Love my mustang. Have an 82 1/2 GT my parents bought brand new. And NO its not stock 😉

Nice to see a 6 speed. I love stangs.

I had a Nissan 370Z which had dual throttle bodies. It's very good for twin turbos.

I pulled my carb out of my 22 Mach 1 hp and notice a difference in acceleration.

EVAN, THE TUBE THAT WENT THROUGH THE TUNNEL PORT MOTORS INTAKE RUNNER THAT HOUSED THE PUSHROD. WHEN THEY DID A FLOW TEST ON THEIR HEAD IT WAS NEGLIGIBLE. WITH IT AND WITHOUT IT THE FLOW NUMBERS WERE THE SAME.

My fox could only dream of this kind of power from the factory. Still fun to drive though and it still looks pretty and that makes me happy. And yes, it is a V8 with a manual transmission.

Ford released the encryption to the ECU/ ECM to Whipple, RTR & Ford Racing. It will take about 6 months to get the solution to the tuners. Be patient!!!

Did your dyno guy skateboard back in the 80s? That Coastal Dyno logo looks a whole lot like the old Santa Cruz skateboards logo! 💯

Whipple has the key to the ECU since they are teamed up with Ford and their superchargers. Everyone else, nope.

How did you get the dyno control on the laptop. I wanna do that with our shop dyno

I wonder if someone made a Bigger diameter carbon filter area, potentially allowing more air flow before the MAF, if that would equal removing the carbon trap HP loss. Space appears to be a restricting factor there. Some say that the HP gain with K&N style filters disappears as the computer 'learns' the air flow difference. Any thoughts on that?

Do you guys have the part # for the k&n filters on these? They aren’t on K&N site yet

It’s a slightly revamped s550. What did people expect. S197 is the best coyote platform, imo. I run a gen 3 short block and a whipple on e85 in my 13 🤙🏼 Hey even, thanks for your contributions and passion in the mustang world. I’m an OG foxbody guy like you.

Project Blue Thunder

When you remove the carbon traps.... does it throw any codes on map sensors or anything else?

Very interesting. A simple and practical way to get some extra HP. If you gonna take it to the dragstrip, it would be an ideal ocassion for some racing against previous models, since everybody is arguing if the car is faster or slower... The Dark Horse has divided Mustang enthusiasts' opinions as few other models. I can't imagine a cool name.. Since its a kind of successor of the Terminator, should be called Judgement Day...

Do you have a part number for the air filters?

Could you please, please run a dyno with 87 octane and then 93 to see if there is actually a huge difference. super curious I'm sure a bunch of other mustang owners are. there aren't any good videos on this.

Can we just end ..that you get an awesome 5.0 engine ..two throttle bodies. 440 hp. Is great. To hit that 500 + bigger injectors Headers.. straight pipe. Ecu tune maybe 640 Hp.. they gave you a scat pack killer. Out the box.

Is adaptive octane logic enabled thats main thing i want to know....

12 hp from the carbon trap removal? 12 rwhp is 12 rwhp. A free mod is a free mod. Gotta love a free mod! And picking up power throughout the RPM band is nice also. And 5 hp from filters? Ehhh... I put filters in everything I own. Lol

It's an amazing modern V8 engine in new gen7 Mustang. Don't see how anyone can complain!? Have you driven a newer Mustang lately? They are incredible. Even a Mustang Ecoboost is an excellent sports car /daily driver. Have my order in for '24 Mustang GT 5.0L w/ performance pack/ ZF 6spd manual. Black on black! Can't beat em. 💯 👍🏻🇺🇸 -NY

Can't wait to see these slapped on a Gen 1

What kind of filter are those ?? Brand and part # ??

What do ppl tune the gt500 redline to? Higher than 7500??

Do the different exhaust settings effect hp?

Call it Ford Project - True Blue Oval, paying respect to Ford's racing history. True Blue Oval sings the history of Fords putting power to the ground on race tracks. If you use this name can I get an autographed photo of this particular Dark Horse, and then I will mail back an autographed copy of my book that reverse engineered all the physics involved in physical on-ground dowsing with the modern light weight ball bearing dowsing rod, which is the same physics used in electronic metal detecting. The book's name is The Art of Dowsing - Separating Science from Superstition. Thank you Evan for all the information and entertainment with this channel. I am looking forward to another (stand alone) Fast Fords .... type magazine. How come Ford itself did not buy and take over the magazine, which was one of Ford's best advertising tools with very little expense to Ford (supplying free parts) ? All Ford fans had to pay the price of Tens Publishing's other nine bankrupt magazines, such as Super Chevy. I like Chevy power too, mostly in the muscle car era, but from the 1980's on, I am all Ford,. At twelve years old (late 1960's), I had a 1953 Ford F100 with a 292 C.I. and a manual car three speed with driving it everywhere as though I actually had a drivers license, (even drove it to jobs I had). 300lbs on rocks stacked against the tailgate gave traction for driving on all the 4x4 jeep tails, where we would see friends in their 4x4's asking "how the hell did you get that two wheel drive truck in here" ? The only answer to that question is you have to know what you're doing with a 4x4 and you have to be a little crazy. Can't wait for income coming in from our book sales and advertisement money from our new RU-vid channel, "Tracy and Michael's Dowsing Adventure", with buying a new Raptor R and 2020 - 2022 Shelby GT 500 for modifications by Hennesey Peformance. The future may hold an REVan Evan RU-vid video on the vehicles, because you are one of the few whom I would trust for accurate representation of all aspects of the vehicles. P.S. I like Shelby's Las Vegas performance modification shop too.

Just a quick question, is it normal to put a car on a dyno before it goes through the break in period?

Great power gains with minimal mods.

The filter part number is RU-1037

My 15 428/402...18 mani pmas cai bbk LTH...cat delete...no dyno tune yet...just tune for 18 mani w/lockouts n cat tune..5th gear pull

I don't think many are complaining about power, they are complaining about E/T and trap speed which is what matters. I could care less if it dynoed at 1000rwhp if it's slow compared to previous gen. 2018 was trapping at 119-120mph. 3 or 4mph faster

Blew by you !

Is it worth buying over the 2024 mustang gt ?

Will it void the warranty?

Interesting car. Curious, how did Ford get the extra power over the standard GT? Does the computer get data from both intake tracks, or just 1 side? Itake it the carbon traps aren't replaceable? Great videos!

Does it or will it make a difference with removing the air box lids with the filter exhange?

I am going to get one of these Dark Horses in the near future...can you work that engine for me?

What do these weigh now?

Name her Feeling Blue !!

Will make more one you break it in

The blue unic.

What fuel would you recommend running this car daily. Like would 93 help the longevity of the car or is 87 just fine

i wonder what it would pick up with e-85, less restrictive exhaust and an actual tune.

Can't wait to see what kind of 1/4 mile ETs it gets.

Twin TB: Logic makes sense, but they could have did the old 96+ Cobra twin TBs setup with a single lever (53mm x 2) and one giant inlet w/carbon trap. It would have been simpler, more reliable and easier to modify. Instead they went with dual intake tracks which is the most complicated option and hardest to modify.

Great video guys for sure. If it had a little more octane to go in hand with the additional airflow and leave the filters exposed on the dyno it would probably make 460-465 that’s incredible there’s plenty you can do on the stock tune free flowing exhaust, Porting etc..

I think people were hoping Ford under rated them like they used to. Terminator cobra times.

Project Mystique (like X-men. She's blue). Has a good ring to it.

17 HP and 19 lb ft for almost no work or cost isn’t too bad at all. I think the biggest problem with it is traction. It really needs the right tire to utilize all of the torque and Horsepower it has.

What filter did you purchase? Id love to throw some in my Dark Horse but don't know what to get

They probably had more emissions designing and building those traps than what they will ever save

no gm junk with 2 valve LS/LT can pick up 17hp at wheels so easy, coyote doing what coyote does killing it

Mod nationals is when and where?

Project Blue Cheese

Part of me still wonders is if the did the dual intake setup for mostly unique + looks points. Or is there really a big advantage in the system. Like would the car make the same hp with a single intake?

Elvis! For blue suede shoes