On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:46:48 -0400, John H
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On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 01:40:17 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:25:37 -0400, John H
wrote:

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 00:56:10 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 20:46:06 -0400, John H
wrote:

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 00:03:50 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:58:39 -0400, John H
wrote:

On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 22:23:32 GMT, Don White wrote:

John H wrote:



Better let Harry do the talking, and you do the follow up. Works better that
way.


Ok...let's substitute 'high powered yellow Mustang' for SUV....
make more sense?

I'm getting over 21mpg in the Mustang. Not bad. It's not really high powered
though, only a 4.6L.

I thought your Mustang was a GT?

It is. The GT has a 4.6L V-8, with an advertised 300hp. I don't do a lot of drag
racing though. (Although, I *know* it'll do 110mph in 3rd gear - without
redlining.) I've only done that once. That was enough.

Fuel Injected? I didn't know you could push the Ford standard 4.6 L
to 300 hp without altering something major. Supposedly this is Ford's
standard engine package across the product line.

Interesting.

Jim beat me to it, but yeah, with a couple or three or four thousand dollars,
the thing can be taken to 500 or so hp without too much trouble. Of course, the
warranty may not be worth much.

Well, it's rated at 300 hp at 6000 - I'm not sure how much of that 300
is usable.

My truck develops 500 ft lb of torgue at 1600 rpm with 235 hp stock.
Of course, it's not stock. :)

The folks on the Mustang sites who put the thing on dynamometers (sp?) say it's
only about 280 hp at the rear wheels. But that's still plenty for a car that
size.

I was just curious because, for a stock engine, that's a lot of horse
power right out of the box. In a practical sense, with that kind of
power curve, you really only have 250 horses. I can't speak to it
though because I don't know what the dyno figure it.

I can jack up the horsepower and torque on my pickup with a handy
dandy little gizmo I bought and get about 280 hp at some ridiculous
number of torque (can't remember at the moment), but that's for
extreme conditions - like pulling down houses or ripping out stumps.

You can do a lot with 250 horsepower with proper gearing.