They didn't say much about them other than they wouldn't make production.
But I find it interesting they were even on there
Yes, very.
They didn't say much about them other than they wouldn't make production.
But I find it interesting they were even on there
The marketing guy I talked to at Road America said they wanted to set up the same style events for the introduction of the Focus RS next year. I'm wondering if it will be for the ST crowd, or if any of the SVT vehicles will qualify you. I would love to go again next year and thrash an RS.
I posted about those two months ago from Sonoma Raceway on my other favorite forum. ;-) In mid August I talked to a couple of Ford engineers about them and they were insistent that they weren't needed. They said the voodoo does not have the same oil ingestion problem as the coyote. Yet there they are on all the Track Tour cars that are intended to be driven on track. Hmmm. I'm sure Bob is going to sell a lot of them in the near future. I like the design of that can better than some of the others I've seen. I'll probably go this route on the passenger side only vs. the race car breather setup I now have on my car.Chris, I've noticed what looks to be Bob's oil separators on some recent GT350's. Did any of the cars at the event you attended have them?
Here's a recent clip of the Motor Trend test car that shows one plumbed into each side of the engine.
I did not have any discussions related to NVH. I've heard elsewhere that because of the vibration and the fixes that are in place to "keep it from shaking apart" that I'd be VERY cautious about doing any modifications to the drive train and that includes all pieces of the exhaust and probably the shifter. When my car arrives my focus will be on wheels/tires and brake pads along with safety gear. I'll sit on the sidelines to see what happens when others mod their cars and get denied warranty claims because of it.
On another note did you catch the R&T comment about the GT350R running oil temps in the 280-300 range? The oil cooler looks small to me so this could be an issue. The R has a smaller radiator opening for aero purposes but I wonder if that is affecting cooling as well?
I'm familiar with the principal but theory and reality don't always match up. Ford made that opening smaller not for cooling but for aero. That's directly from a Ford engineer that worked on the car. For cooling a radiator it's about total air flow through the radiator not how fast it flows through it. The Boss 302's of which I'm very familiar with ;-) had huge cooling issues on track and the only way to remedy it was to open up the grill opening to allow more airflow through. Nothing and I repeat nothing else solved the problem. So while I'm confident Ford did a great job with the 350 reading that the oil got so hot early on and not even in a hot climate or high elevation is a big concern in my book.Quite the opposite in fact, its better for cooling. Check it out : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli's_principle
In a nut shell, if spaced properly, an inlet's opening only needs to be a fraction of the radiator height due to the way it will build pressure in front of the radiator. 280-300 is really hot though ... Granted, these cars probably go through the ringer being driven by magazine after magazine, test driver after test driver after test driver ... Its probably a very long day for them.