@@geronimowindow no, it was a Ford-“esque” move their mod motor blocks hold insane amount of power. This Ford GT also uses stock heads. The suspension of the car is also stock, so is the body little no aero work.
@@CoyoteFTW it simply doesn’t make sense to me. You mean to tell me that Ford was building ALUMINUM blocks in 2005 that could make 3000 horsepower without cracking and putting them into production cars? That doesn’t seem physically possible. Bugatti engineered the veyron to be the fastest car in the world and I don’t think that the W16 in that car that made close to 1500 whp in the Chiron SS could handle double it’s factory output. It’s simply not possible
I still remember as a kid watching the video of the Ford GT breaking 263 mph at the Texas Mile in 2012. If I thought that was fast back then, now I'm hearing about one going 300 mph
@@raymondjack4634 - it’s registered and insured street legal car. 15 yr old Ford GT did what Bugatti said was impossible. 300 mph. Makes it even more impressive it reached 300mph in ONE MILE.
Remember, it's also the industrial chemists who developed tires that would hold these supercars on the road without breaking up. THAT was also brilliant technology. My dad was one them.
Amazing!! So few go fast gurus realize that if it were not for the design engineers-chemists-production engineers, these speeds would never ever been achieved. You must be very proud of your dad!
@@Herrera419 On paper of course. I'm a Ford guy and LOVE the New Ford GT but it's not nearly as iconic or as impressive for it's time as this car. Still a great car though that gets more hate than it deserves.
@@GF-mf7ml There isn’t a viper close to 300 mph. And the engine is a V10 built by Lamborghini displaces 8.4 Liters! You’re comparing that to a 5.4l. I remember when they had to lower the selling price for the viper by like 30k because it wouldn’t sell.
@@CoyoteFTW The Viper is just a basically 1990's version of the 1960's Shelby / AC cobra. Giant engine in a lightweight 2 seat front engine car, attractive to mental motorheads who think horsepower and noise, is everything. The GT is a race proven mid engine design, just brought to it's peak performance.
It’s bananas to go 0-300, period. Aero drag rises not as a square, but a cubed factor of speed, if I remember correctly. 300 in a Bonneville car shaped like a tuna is impressive. In this.. well, as you said. Bananas.
I raced a 05-06 Ford GT on a highway in SandSprings Oklahoma and it stayed right on my ass the entire time. I was on a 2008 CBR 1000RR lowered with cam, velocity stacks, and tune. I was suprised he could keep up with me. He would have passed me over 180 but I think he was thinking about keeping me alive.
Still amazing that a Ford GT, still road legal, was made to reach 300MPH. Took another decade and a half for another car company, bugatti, to make a road legal 300mph car, among others. GT was just so far ahead of it's time, people could really make it drive any way they wanted, rather than hyper expensive factory options. Bet the GT still even drives pretty normally around the road, even with the 3000HP.
John claims that he occasionally drives it on the street - runs errands, takes his kids to school, and so forth. With that said, he probably doesn't street-drive it a whole lot. One drunk driver, and he's out decades of work and hundreds of thousands of dollars. It wouldn't be too surprising, though, if he detunes it off the track. That wouldn't be too hard: change the EFI mapping, run it on pump gas instead of race gas, take the nitrous bottle and logging electronics out, put mufflers and bumpers on, open the wastegates early, and so forth. It might still be a handful, though.
I fell in love with this car when I was just 8 years old. Growing up, I watched nearly every single Ford GT video ever made. I'm 25 now and it is still my dream car
I’ve never heard the GT90 described as controversial. It’s one of the few concept cars people even remember. People I’ve seen love it. I love it. It looks timeless. Most people would never guess when it was created if they know nothing about it.
I know that they had plenty of reason to use the V6 tt in the most recent GT but man it would've been so so cool to see something like the GT500 engine or something similar in there. I absolutely love the design though. One of the best looking cars I've ever seen.
The factory rated 550hp was underrated. I sponsored a VMP Dyno Day in late 2007 at the Ford dealership in Darien GA. where the dealership had one, he put it on the Dyno, it made 551rwhp with less that 10 miles on it.
My Uncle was a dealer and sold a Heritage edition(Gulf colors), I was there when the owner got to pick it up and got to go for a ride. I dated a girl who's cousin let me drive his that was at 800whp that clutch is still the heaviest I've felt. The Gulf car was dyno'd at a car show and put down 560 something at the tire stock. The Terminator Cobras in 03-04 also underrated the HP numbers.
@@Loulovesspeed rwhp is lower that crank hp. There is about a 12% hp drivetrain loss using a chassis dyno! The 05/06 Ford GT engine hp was closer to 620 hp. And no the TTV6 GT will not blow the stock '05 or '06 GT into the weeds! The current TTV6 GT will never see 300mph even with JATO rockets strapped to it!
@@mobeydick37 - I am referring to STOCK machines, not some hot rodded creation for doing 300+ mph in a straight line. IMHO, that proves absolutely nothing! Here are the specs, so you tell me which car is quicker, faster and handles better! 2006 Ford GT - 550hp supercharged DOHC V8; 0-60 in 3.3 - 3.6; top speed 200 - 205 mph; 1/4 mile time 11.5 seconds; weight; 3,351 lbs. 2018 Ford GT - 647hp twin turbo DOHC V6; 0-60 in 2.9; top speed; 217mph; 1/4 mile time 10.9 seconds; weight; 3,047lbs. No more calls please folks, we have a winner and it's the 2018 Ford GT (with a 6 cylinder engine) Lol.
@@mobeydick37 - Forget it as you are not listening to what I said!! I don't give a rat's ass what hp these engines CAN make when modified, I am talking about factory stock. '06 GT is 550 hp. at the crank from a 5.4 DOHC V8. The '18 GT is 647 hp. at the crank from a 3.5 liter TTV6! That's all Bucko!
Dad was part of the initial development team in skunkworks, they were originally going to go with a direct homologation of the gt40 mk1 but that idea got scrapped after new safety regulations and fueling were needed for economy. It’s a good thing superformance is basically doing that today.
@@jamesturner2126 idk man, i got a 4.6 (same motor just shorter stroke) and they are a single turbo and injectors away from making the least reliable 496 hp ive ever made
@@jamesturner2126 bro legit 4 main variants of both engines the 2v, 3v, 4v and the supercharged variants the most common being the 2v and 3v motors all had the same problem from a tuning standpoint, the relatively weak internals not standing up to much power as most would like and the heads on the 2v flow like shit so the most cost efficient way of making power in these engines is boost but only up to certain point it’s hard to make cheap power on these motors if you don’t have a 4v or factory supercharged motor
@@jamesturner2126 oh and the 5.4L 2v and the 4.6L 2v are the same exact motor down to the wiring harness just a different stroke so it makes more torque early on
I'm really glad I found these videos. No bias, no stupid bs just interesting information in a to the point package. Respect to you 337. By the way, could you do the Cosworth YB if you can gather enough information to create a video. I'm not sure how many markets got the engine but it was in the Sierra Cosworth in the UK. Maybe an engine a lot of people aren't aware of
@@97Ant Worked very well at Bathurst in the Cosworth Sierra for a 1,000km at a time, and would have wiped the Nissan GTR, if it didn't have the limitation on tyres. Having to be the same biscuit size as a naturally aspirated 2L due to regulations, meant it ate tyres all too easily !!
My employee number is 337, but more importantly my boss has an 05 GT40, blue with white stripes and the infamous condensation in the headlights, lol. He owns several iconic cars - '61 white Mercedes Benz 300 SEL, '69 Camaro, '65 Mustang, and several other old classics, also has the '16 Ford GT and C8 Vette. The luxuries of owning 6 dealerships 😂 - Toyota, Subaru, Mitsubishi, Range Rover, BMW & Mini. Reminds me, he has a BMW i8 as well, it's actually pretty cool.
A top 10 performance engine video could definitely come from this at a milestone(video 50/100 etc). Everyone talks about significance historically but noone seems to have the guts to put a personal ranking on cars/engines on the basis of cost and performance alone.
T6 is the ageing condition of the _A356_ aluminium alloy used for the block. It's the alloy system here that's important to emphasise seeing as almost every cast aluminum alloy used for engine blocks will be in the T6 and maximum strength heat treatment condition
You're giving too much credit to the car. You put 3,000hp in damn near anything and it will achieve a very high top speed! The stock speed of this car is 200mph - if that isn't fast enough for you, take up flying!
@@Loulovesspeed brah who put you panties in a bunch. Who saying 200MPH isn’t fast. The aerodynamic of the Ford GT allows it to hit that’s high of a speed. Relax there buddy
I love the sound of the Ford GT. For me probably the best sounding V8 ever made. They swapped from manual to semi-automatic gearboxes on race cars after a while which was sad because the manual gear shifts sounded extremely cool.
@CrossEyedLion - The '05 and '06 Ford GT had a 6 speed manual only, and the current Ford GT has always had the dual clutch 7 speed semi-auto. Even the Corvette is now auto. only.😩
I definitely enjoy your videos my man. Finite element analysis is something I never knew about this. Thank you for your insight and brilliant clarity to the engineering of this machine.
Johnny Bohmer! They've gone like 338mph! I remember this guy go and well over 300 miles an hour a years ago... I had a magazine that had a review of it Heavy Hitters. Brought that to work and shit on my buddies who are into imports and Chevy's
@@Wopadas You mean the one that they gave this certificate from Guinness too... With the facility where everyone goes into his high speed testing at that guy
@@chrismathes3647 You realize that he paid for Guinness to come out and they did nothing but show up. Equipment was set up by his people. Same guy tried to pass off his sub 1000rwhp C5 went 252mph in the standing mile. If that doesn't set off your BS meter, I've got a bridge to sell you.
@@Wopadas OK 👍 You do understand everyone pays Guinness and they just show up and verify measured times? He's taken 3 different Guinness records... Callaway built the sledgehammer that went 255mph with something like 800 RWHP so I don't know maybe his Corvette went as fast as it did I wouldn't consider hes probably more credible than yourself.
@@chrismathes3647 Guinness do not verify the equipment is set up correctly. Callaway’s Sledgehammer did that on a 7.5 mile oval. Bohmer’s claims are in a standing mile, you need a lot more power to do it in that distance.
great vid! Loved that car when it launched (the new one... not so much as I think they completely missed the mark on what the essence of the car is). Had no idea someone made a version that could go 300mph!!
RWD doing 300 in a mile. Meanwhile AWD Lambos are spinning out and destroying themselves all over the place doing the same standing mile. That thing was built so fine. There will be faster cars but probably never another with the perfect combination of a manual shift mid engine V8 goodness with beauty that will make the dead rise just to come take a look.
I'm a GM guy but I have zero problems acknowledging the Ford GT is a masterpiece on 4 wheels. Too bad they didn't make some more of those 300mph beasts. I doubt I'm the only one who'd love to see several overly arrogant European auto manufacturers shut up and put in line for a bit..... If for any reason it would have shaken up the entire auto industry and the responses would have been interesting.
How come I keep thinking about Alonzo Bowden when you are narrating? It's very impressive motoring vlog. Very accurate and revealing. Keep up the good work 👌
Back when I worked at a Ford dealership and being a new tech fresh out of the ASSET program, I was all about the svt line and taking all the classes and getting certified to work on the " big boy " toys. I remember the day we got two of these and they got shipped sealed and on casters. We had to push them into the show room . If anyone remembers tousley Ford in white bear MN , that parking lot was a down hill 😕 " if this 150,000 dollar car gets away from us this is gonna suck " .
If you’ve ever had one of these, you hit your head on those darn doors half the time if you forget. This is a fabulous video. You are so knowledgeable. I didn’t know about the XJ220
The original Gt90 design was going to use 2 Yamaha SHO v6 engines joined to make a v12 with 4 turbo units. During the design phase Ford stopped using the Yamaha engines and switched to the modular V12 custom engine. The Yamaha SHO v12 also had 4 turbos and 720 hp.
Not a big deal but pretty sure it was a lysholm twin screw blower not eaton which only uses roots type which im pretty sure had not released their tvs rotors yet so it would be the older 60 degree 3 lobe rotors like the early gt500s with their m122 blowers.
Camillo was my friend at the time he was doing the GT (I"ve kinda lost track of him lately). He and Sid Chiang were working on Petunia with Chelsea Lau as studio Chief (or maybe she was just a manager at the time). Both Sid and Camillo did some very aggressive and modern design proposals. J Mays didn't want to go new with it. J wanted to go retro. It's a shame that the world will never see what Sid and Camilo actually wanted to do. One earlier iteration of the retro version of the GT design had a much shorter front overhang and smaller more compact proportions overall. It still housed all the mechanicals that eventually ended up in the production car but the smaller car would have been faster and lighter. J didn't like it because it looked less impressive so they added the extra length. J sent a lot of good design work back into the clay oven.
