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2010 Chicago: 2011 Ford Shelby GT500 Debuts With 550 hp, Little Fanfare

MotorTrend Magazine - Feb 10, 2010

MuscularMustangs.comFord launched its 2011 Shelby Mustang GT500 this morning at the 2010 Chicago Car Show to nearly no official fanfare. The hot new snake appeared on the show Beefed-Up Ford Mustang GT500 Bows In ChicagoNew Goodyear F1 Tires for Shelby GT500 With SVT Coupled2011 Ford Shelby GT500 ups horsepower, fuel economy - -all 110 scandal articles »

2010 Chicago Auto Show: New cars in the Windy City

ConsumerReports.org (blog) - Feb 10, 2010

AutoSpies.comAlready we have seen the new Chevrolet Silverado HD, Ford Shelby GT500, Honda Odyssey, Toyota Avalon, and much more. And keep up with the latest ins and outs by Nissan, absent in Detroit, returns to Chicagoall 32 news articles »

2011 Ford Shelby GT500 will be faster and lighter, execs say

The Detroit News - Feb 08, 2010

Allen Store -- The 2011 Ford Shelby GT500 will be faster, more powerful and lighter than ever before, Ford Motor Co. executives said this afternoon.

2011 Ford Shelby GT500 Coming Next Week

MotorCrave.com - Feb 05, 2010

MuscularMustangs.comWe got a glimpse of the Shelby GT350 last month, and now the 2011 Ford Shelby GT500 Mustang is set to become true on Monday. 2011 Ford Shelby GT500 Mustang to be unveiled MondayStronger Shelby Mustang GT500 to roar out2011 Shelby GT500 Gets More Power - -all 10 news articles »

Goodyear Eagle Rubber Chosen for 2011 Mustang

Tyrepress.com - Feb 11, 2010

Goodyear has announced that customers choosing Facultative Performance Package on the recently unveiled 2011 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 will receive its Eagle

Geiger Ford Shelby GT

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Strident end chassis engineering

So that so much power can also be transformed in growth, GeigerCars.de bespoke the Shelby with a idiosyncratic racing chassis as well as a Panhard rod made from chrome-moly steel including polyurethane shrub border on the trimmings to steadiness the axial equalizer and new reinforced and pliable trailing missiles for improved put up axle directional lasting quality. For the all-worthy in to the asphalt skin four master-work OZ vitiate wheels in 8.5 and 10x20 inch stand behind okay awareness thanks to Michelin luxurious playing tyres in 245/35ZR20 and 285/30ZR20. The erect Cobra is slowed down using 6 plunger loaded appearance brakes on the front axle with 380 millimetre as a whole drilled or optionally slotted curb discs.

Perhaps this Mustang Shelby rendition would also put the apprehension of God into the US racing celebrity Carroll Shelby!

Complicated observations

Locomotive: 5.4 litre eight stagger V with modular compressor, Ford GT aluminium motor prevent a rough out, machined wobble heads, modified injection system, larger throttle valves, make a laughing-stock of air membrane strain, 100 mm air brim meter, unready far air box, aluminium rocker arm, forged oddity ambition, 3 disc carbon take, reinforced telecasting with shortened 5th and 6th gears, increased differential, locomotive oil cooler, 3.3 l compressor with 1.6 bar supercharging inducement

Power: 810 PS / 541 kW at 6,700 rpm

Max. machine torque: 945 Nm at 4,300 rpm

Upper limit promptness: 354 km/h

Wheels/tyres: OZ alloys, front 8.5x 20 in. with 245/35ZR20, fag-end 10x20 in. with 285/30ZR20

Brakes: VA 380 mm slotted discs with Geiger 6 plunger slow up calipers GT V6, slacken hoses

Chassis: racing chassis, Geiger Panhard rod, reinforced and compliant Geiger trailing artillery

2011 Ford Shelby GT500 finally gets aluminum engine, loses 120 pounds

Last June we practised about an confer that several Ford researchers had received for a lurch exhaust coating system they matured called the Plasma Transferred Wire Arc (PTWA) activity. The Ford newspapermen emancipate at the era framed the give in terms of fossil competence and gave no licit advice about what was about to down attack. It now turns out that the first building Ford to use the PTWA operation will be the 2011 GT500.

The concern of the PTWA method involves feeding a brace wire into a thingumajig that heats it up to 35,000 degrees Fahrenheit and then sprays it onto the aluminum stagger bores. Ford is not in point of fact the first flock to use a deal with like this. Correspond to mechanisms have been inured to to covering the fan blades in jet engines for a billion of years. One of the ranking differences is that Ford is using PTWA with a standard sword impair rather than some wonderful striptease aerospace constituents. Ford isn't even the first automaker to use this special to coating approach. That honor falls to Nissan , which in reality licensed the technology from Ford for use on its V6 apparatus in the GT-R .

Hameedi believes that Ford has an leading usefulness over Nissan. Anyone that has ever old a teflon-covered pan is relaxed with the can of worms of the non-nail coating peeling off over beforehand. In the days BMW has also had issues with the nickasil coatings too soon separating on some of its aluminum blocks. Getting any contrasting materials to hang to each other is always a muddle, so the introductory fa has to be custom prearranged in association for the coating to have something to persevere on to. Nissan licensed Ford's coating technology but acquainted with its own fa preparation technique. According to Hameedi, Ford's integument preparation works so well that even after engines have gone through a full resoluteness recycle the bores still look like new.

Using the PTWA handle allows the obstruction to have a thinner top coating – only 150 microns artful – that is proper as intractable as one with form or pressed-in iron or dirk liners. However, using less facts results in cut consequence. According to Hameedi, the GT500 chunk is 8.5 pounds lighter than the sleeved GT interpretation. Whole, the model motor is 102 pounds lighter than the 2010 inclination iron locomotive. The blade coating has also helped Ford crop the internal conflict of the machine, aiding both efficacy and power shaping.

Hameedi explained that some headache racers complained of power nip off on clammy summer era, which was attributed to reduced fever bring experience. SVT addressed this with a larger intercooler that helps the apparatus set forth more in agreement power over its intact operating organize as well as under many environmental situation. Hameedi tells Autoblog that the new aluminum plan b mask mechanism should be accomplished to outlive "at least" as much zenith power in modified physique as the iron bar of a piece. Also aiding gasp is a larger discharge system with 2.75 inch header pipes like those on the new 5.0-liter in the Mustang GT. Out of the box, the new powerplant delivers 10 more horsepower bringing the add up up to 550 hp with the same tor torque of 510 batter-feet. Eighty percent of that torque is within reach everywhere between 1,750 rpm and 6,250 rpm.

2013 Ford Mustang Spied with Exterior Updates, Could be Another Special Edition V6

07.02.12

Caught here is what appears to be a Mustang V-6 out testing a few new alien modifications, at the least. The slightly higher ride height and non-attendance of lighting elements—or blanks like the Boss 302 sports—in the grille has us self-possessed this mule is V-6 powered (all Mustangs now host dual-frazzle outlets). Nevertheless, the Stang is home to a new rear spoiler and revised nurse fascia that stretches down the diffuser trim and adds a sanction plate surround. The wheels are unique to this mule, as are a few elements in the front, like projector-luxury head- and fog lights, additional air intakes, and a very pronounced front splitter. With those conventional high-end features found on the nose, we’re leaning toward the idea that this is a close V-6 Mustang, perhaps with performance intentions, thus needing additional scoops for cooling and a big put up spoiler for stability or just added flare. Now, a pin can easily be plopped on anything, but it should be noted that the vertical red, white, and dejected insignia here most often finds itself on one of those special Mustangs.

With no other significant changes that can be made out, we consider this pony will be prancing around as soon as next year. Rest persuade, we’ll bring you more as soon as we can.

Source: Car and Driver (blog)