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2013-14 Shelby GT500
Ford gt engine troubles
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<blockquote data-quote="Bad Company" data-source="post: 15566806" data-attributes="member: 141815"><p>Snoopy, you're welcome. It will be easy to remember that all of the 4.6L 4V, 5.4L 4V and 5.8L 4V engines use the exact same secondary timing chain components. The primary side is where all the differences are. </p><p></p><p>The only reason Ford changed the primary chain and sprockets for the GT500 was because of the valve covers. With the bigger primary sprockets of the earlier Ford GT engines and the corresponding taller/wider valve covers, the completely assembled engine is too wide to raise the engine between the frame rails of the S197 Mustang. The SVT crew shrunk the primary timing system to install the smaller valve covers, so the engine could be installed without slowing the production line down. Everybody that converts to the Ford GT timing system must raise the engine above the frame rails without the valve covers, than install the valve covers before raising the engine and K-member into its final location in the chassis.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bad Company, post: 15566806, member: 141815"] Snoopy, you're welcome. It will be easy to remember that all of the 4.6L 4V, 5.4L 4V and 5.8L 4V engines use the exact same secondary timing chain components. The primary side is where all the differences are. The only reason Ford changed the primary chain and sprockets for the GT500 was because of the valve covers. With the bigger primary sprockets of the earlier Ford GT engines and the corresponding taller/wider valve covers, the completely assembled engine is too wide to raise the engine between the frame rails of the S197 Mustang. The SVT crew shrunk the primary timing system to install the smaller valve covers, so the engine could be installed without slowing the production line down. Everybody that converts to the Ford GT timing system must raise the engine above the frame rails without the valve covers, than install the valve covers before raising the engine and K-member into its final location in the chassis. [/QUOTE]
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