You’d be shocked at how much tape we aerodynamicists go through! Good tape and foam-core are the tools of the trade. 

So you know that the Northfield Township planners were racists because they wanted to keep the area rural? They wanted to keep all those “black folks” from Ann Arbor out of Northfield? [Seriously trying to not laugh hard as I typed that last sentence] That’s the only reason people ever want to get out of the suburbs,…

Have another cup of coffee and re-read my last comment. Carefully.

Ooh look, we found this one racist guy who likes acreage. I guess every other human who dislikes heavy traffic and wants privacy and a little distance from their neighbors is racist too! Thanks for clearing that up! Brilliant!

lol ok.

Carefully walk me through your thought process. I’m interested to hear how this connection is made.

I feel cheap... it’s such an easy target :)

When we first moved to Northfield Township in 1990 (closer to 23 on Territorial), it was a haven from the urban sprawl of Ann Arbor and the Western Suburbs. You couldn’t build a house on less than 5 acres, there were 3 police cars in the local fleet, and Nixon Road was dirt and prevented hoards of traffic from…

Correct. I cannot share anything that has not been included in a corporate press release.

I can confirm nothing that hasn’t been in a corporate press release.

Agreed. The Coyote is likely the cheapest and smoothest “not-an-LS” entry to the 500hp club. I would have been 500% saltier if this thing had a Chevy.

They 100% do have those problems I described. Ford dyno has spent years trying to dig themselves out from under this mess, and they almost succeeded. There’s a reason the Mustang GT4 reverted back to a cross plane crank. Same power, less second-order vibration.

The 5.2 would shake those cars to pieces. The second order train-wreck that is the Romeo Paint Shaker is good at a few things: breaking headers, breaking starters, sounding decent, and fatiguing wiring harnesses to failure. Oh, and vibrating the oil filters off.

Not sure who “you guys” are, as I only speak for myself and from what I have lain my own hands on. I used the UZ (and the Nissan VH, for that matter) as an example of a contemporary engine to the original Modular that was not as “exotic” as the BMW or Audi engines may have been. It was a better starting package, and…

There’s a reason we put Toyota UZ engines in NA Miatas and not the much cheaper Mod.

They are shockingly cheap to make.

The last time I had an early twin cam and single cam Mod sitting next to each other in the shop (about 15 years ago, according to my notes), the twin cam was almost exactly 1 inch wider at a shade over 30 inches, while the single cam is at least 29 inches wide. Sit the heads on the bench and they are damn close in…

the 5.2 is notorious for shaking the headers and starter motor to failure. Oh, and the fatiguing wiring harnesses are a neat trick. They vibrate a lot.

Specific horsepower is meaningless to systems engineers. The engine is a black box and we don’t care if there’s 1 liter in there or 10. We care about what the crank shaft output is, and how big the whole thing is. Torque-per-engine mass or packaging volume is what matters, and that’s where the Ford leaves me…

Toyota, Nissan, Audi, BMW, and Cadillac all developed overhead cam V8s around the same time, and their heads are all smaller. Much smaller. Also, the fact that the Ford SOHC and DOHC heads are both the same damn size says volumes on it’s own.