@@geronimowindow no, it was a Ford-“esque” move their mod motor blocks hold insane amount of power. This Ford GT also uses stock heads. The suspension of the car is also stock, so is the body little no aero work.
@@CoyoteFTW it simply doesn’t make sense to me. You mean to tell me that Ford was building ALUMINUM blocks in 2005 that could make 3000 horsepower without cracking and putting them into production cars? That doesn’t seem physically possible. Bugatti engineered the veyron to be the fastest car in the world and I don’t think that the W16 in that car that made close to 1500 whp in the Chiron SS could handle double it’s factory output. It’s simply not possible
I still remember as a kid watching the video of the Ford GT breaking 263 mph at the Texas Mile in 2012. If I thought that was fast back then, now I'm hearing about one going 300 mph
@@raymondjack4634 - it’s registered and insured street legal car. 15 yr old Ford GT did what Bugatti said was impossible. 300 mph. Makes it even more impressive it reached 300mph in ONE MILE.
Remember, it's also the industrial chemists who developed tires that would hold these supercars on the road without breaking up. THAT was also brilliant technology. My dad was one them.
Amazing!! So few go fast gurus realize that if it were not for the design engineers-chemists-production engineers, these speeds would never ever been achieved. You must be very proud of your dad!
My respect for your father. Good tires are one of the most important things on a performance car. Cant grip, put power to the road, or will just fail from the power and speed.
@@Herrera419 On paper of course. I'm a Ford guy and LOVE the New Ford GT but it's not nearly as iconic or as impressive for it's time as this car. Still a great car though that gets more hate than it deserves.
@@GF-mf7ml There isn’t a viper close to 300 mph. And the engine is a V10 built by Lamborghini displaces 8.4 Liters! You’re comparing that to a 5.4l. I remember when they had to lower the selling price for the viper by like 30k because it wouldn’t sell.
@@CoyoteFTW The Viper is just a basically 1990's version of the 1960's Shelby / AC cobra. Giant engine in a lightweight 2 seat front engine car, attractive to mental motorheads who think horsepower and noise, is everything. The GT is a race proven mid engine design, just brought to it's peak performance.
It’s bananas to go 0-300, period. Aero drag rises not as a square, but a cubed factor of speed, if I remember correctly. 300 in a Bonneville car shaped like a tuna is impressive. In this.. well, as you said. Bananas.
I raced a 05-06 Ford GT on a highway in SandSprings Oklahoma and it stayed right on my ass the entire time. I was on a 2008 CBR 1000RR lowered with cam, velocity stacks, and tune. I was suprised he could keep up with me. He would have passed me over 180 but I think he was thinking about keeping me alive.
I fell in love with this car when I was just 8 years old. Growing up, I watched nearly every single Ford GT video ever made. I'm 25 now and it is still my dream car
I’ve never heard the GT90 described as controversial. It’s one of the few concept cars people even remember. People I’ve seen love it. I love it. It looks timeless. Most people would never guess when it was created if they know nothing about it.
I know that they had plenty of reason to use the V6 tt in the most recent GT but man it would've been so so cool to see something like the GT500 engine or something similar in there. I absolutely love the design though. One of the best looking cars I've ever seen.
Still amazing that a Ford GT, still road legal, was made to reach 300MPH. Took another decade and a half for another car company, bugatti, to make a road legal 300mph car, among others. GT was just so far ahead of it's time, people could really make it drive any way they wanted, rather than hyper expensive factory options. Bet the GT still even drives pretty normally around the road, even with the 3000HP.
John claims that he occasionally drives it on the street - runs errands, takes his kids to school, and so forth. With that said, he probably doesn't street-drive it a whole lot. One drunk driver, and he's out decades of work and hundreds of thousands of dollars. It wouldn't be too surprising, though, if he detunes it off the track. That wouldn't be too hard: change the EFI mapping, run it on pump gas instead of race gas, take the nitrous bottle and logging electronics out, put mufflers and bumpers on, open the wastegates early, and so forth. It might still be a handful, though.
Dad was part of the initial development team in skunkworks, they were originally going to go with a direct homologation of the gt40 mk1 but that idea got scrapped after new safety regulations and fueling were needed for economy. It’s a good thing superformance is basically doing that today.
@@jamesturner2126 idk man, i got a 4.6 (same motor just shorter stroke) and they are a single turbo and injectors away from making the least reliable 496 hp ive ever made
@@jamesturner2126 bro legit 4 main variants of both engines the 2v, 3v, 4v and the supercharged variants the most common being the 2v and 3v motors all had the same problem from a tuning standpoint, the relatively weak internals not standing up to much power as most would like and the heads on the 2v flow like shit so the most cost efficient way of making power in these engines is boost but only up to certain point it’s hard to make cheap power on these motors if you don’t have a 4v or factory supercharged motor
@@jamesturner2126 oh and the 5.4L 2v and the 4.6L 2v are the same exact motor down to the wiring harness just a different stroke so it makes more torque early on
T6 is the ageing condition of the _A356_ aluminium alloy used for the block. It's the alloy system here that's important to emphasise seeing as almost every cast aluminum alloy used for engine blocks will be in the T6 and maximum strength heat treatment condition
I'm really glad I found these videos. No bias, no stupid bs just interesting information in a to the point package. Respect to you 337. By the way, could you do the Cosworth YB if you can gather enough information to create a video. I'm not sure how many markets got the engine but it was in the Sierra Cosworth in the UK. Maybe an engine a lot of people aren't aware of
@@97Ant Worked very well at Bathurst in the Cosworth Sierra for a 1,000km at a time, and would have wiped the Nissan GTR, if it didn't have the limitation on tyres. Having to be the same biscuit size as a naturally aspirated 2L due to regulations, meant it ate tyres all too easily !!
I love the sound of the Ford GT. For me probably the best sounding V8 ever made. They swapped from manual to semi-automatic gearboxes on race cars after a while which was sad because the manual gear shifts sounded extremely cool.
@CrossEyedLion - The '05 and '06 Ford GT had a 6 speed manual only, and the current Ford GT has always had the dual clutch 7 speed semi-auto. Even the Corvette is now auto. only.😩
A top 10 performance engine video could definitely come from this at a milestone(video 50/100 etc). Everyone talks about significance historically but noone seems to have the guts to put a personal ranking on cars/engines on the basis of cost and performance alone.
You're giving too much credit to the car. You put 3,000hp in damn near anything and it will achieve a very high top speed! The stock speed of this car is 200mph - if that isn't fast enough for you, take up flying!
@@Loulovesspeed brah who put you panties in a bunch. Who saying 200MPH isn’t fast. The aerodynamic of the Ford GT allows it to hit that’s high of a speed. Relax there buddy
RWD doing 300 in a mile. Meanwhile AWD Lambos are spinning out and destroying themselves all over the place doing the same standing mile. That thing was built so fine. There will be faster cars but probably never another with the perfect combination of a manual shift mid engine V8 goodness with beauty that will make the dead rise just to come take a look.
I'm a GM guy but I have zero problems acknowledging the Ford GT is a masterpiece on 4 wheels. Too bad they didn't make some more of those 300mph beasts. I doubt I'm the only one who'd love to see several overly arrogant European auto manufacturers shut up and put in line for a bit..... If for any reason it would have shaken up the entire auto industry and the responses would have been interesting.
My employee number is 337, but more importantly my boss has an 05 GT40, blue with white stripes and the infamous condensation in the headlights, lol. He owns several iconic cars - '61 white Mercedes Benz 300 SEL, '69 Camaro, '65 Mustang, and several other old classics, also has the '16 Ford GT and C8 Vette. The luxuries of owning 6 dealerships 😂 - Toyota, Subaru, Mitsubishi, Range Rover, BMW & Mini. Reminds me, he has a BMW i8 as well, it's actually pretty cool.
Johnny Bohmer! They've gone like 338mph! I remember this guy go and well over 300 miles an hour a years ago... I had a magazine that had a review of it Heavy Hitters. Brought that to work and shit on my buddies who are into imports and Chevy's
@@Wopadas You mean the one that they gave this certificate from Guinness too... With the facility where everyone goes into his high speed testing at that guy
@@chrismathes3647 You realize that he paid for Guinness to come out and they did nothing but show up. Equipment was set up by his people. Same guy tried to pass off his sub 1000rwhp C5 went 252mph in the standing mile. If that doesn't set off your BS meter, I've got a bridge to sell you.
@@Wopadas OK 👍 You do understand everyone pays Guinness and they just show up and verify measured times? He's taken 3 different Guinness records... Callaway built the sledgehammer that went 255mph with something like 800 RWHP so I don't know maybe his Corvette went as fast as it did I wouldn't consider hes probably more credible than yourself.
@@chrismathes3647 Guinness do not verify the equipment is set up correctly. Callaway’s Sledgehammer did that on a 7.5 mile oval. Bohmer’s claims are in a standing mile, you need a lot more power to do it in that distance.
If you’ve ever had one of these, you hit your head on those darn doors half the time if you forget. This is a fabulous video. You are so knowledgeable. I didn’t know about the XJ220
@@jordangarza8877 That's right. Maybe he is justified in just pointing out the company. But no, they made literally, tons, of other cars. So yeah, he should've mentioned either one of those models we brought up. Good point.
@@jordangarza8877 On second thought, the GT90 never even went into production. So it'd be more like Chrysler's 'Firepower'. Just a little more hardcore.
Not a big deal but pretty sure it was a lysholm twin screw blower not eaton which only uses roots type which im pretty sure had not released their tvs rotors yet so it would be the older 60 degree 3 lobe rotors like the early gt500s with their m122 blowers.
In 2006 the owner of the project I was working on bought 3 GT40 cars and 2 GT500 cars and had them delivered to the shop. Those GT40 cars were beautiful and I remember the whole underside of the GT40 cars were completely covered by sheets of aluminum. The GT40 cars were blue with white stripes, white with blue stripes and black with silver stripes. The GT500 cars were blue with white stripes and white with blue stripes, both GT500 cars were signed by Carol Shelby on the dash. The GT500 cars were cool especially the white with blue stripes one as it came with the top tier race package, however I was all about those GT40 cars..
You have to ask the manufacturer to custom build them per your specs. I know Continental and Goodyear are pretty good at that. They won't be cheap though!!
great vid! Loved that car when it launched (the new one... not so much as I think they completely missed the mark on what the essence of the car is). Had no idea someone made a version that could go 300mph!!
I have both a second generation (2005) and a third generation (2019) Ford GT's They are so much fun to drive, take occasionally to the track and share with the public such as car shows. You did an excellent job with this video and have honored the Ford GT and Fords performance/racing Heritage. Thank you.
The real secret to a high performance engine (as GM has discovered finally) is to abandon the push rod actuation of the valve train, either a Desmodromic, or chain driven DOHC layout with 4 valves per cylinder (to enable an ideal breathing cycle) gives the best results. This layout also removes the need to keep increasing the engine's capacity (and weight) by giving the ability for much higher revs. The DOHC chain driven system, precludes valve float, allowing for a smaller capacity engine to rev much higher. As demonstrated in GM's Corvette. This is hardly a secret really, it is simply that the USA has long taken a different direction, owing to the extraordinary low prices for fuel. The forced induction path is also an excellent approach, but again, with a smaller capacity engine, a higher revving unit can still deliver high torque and HP outputs.
I made 1200whp through a BONE STOCK 2019 mustang GT engine/trans/diff/axles by adding twin turbos, on e85. Ford really does over engineer some of its modular V8s. I only dream of owning a Ford GT..
shit man i wish that was the case on the old 4.6L 2v, such a headache trying to make power, the internals are only good for maybe 8 lbs of boost and thats pushing your luck. all of that for maybe 500 hp
The original Gt90 design was going to use 2 Yamaha SHO v6 engines joined to make a v12 with 4 turbo units. During the design phase Ford stopped using the Yamaha engines and switched to the modular V12 custom engine. The Yamaha SHO v12 also had 4 turbos and 720 hp.
These cars are still increasing in value!! You see them n you are immediately drawn to them, pleasing to the eyes and a wonderful treat for your ears 👂 !! Great content!! My 2010 GT500 has its heart ❤️ !! Thanks great content
Camillo was my friend at the time he was doing the GT (I"ve kinda lost track of him lately). He and Sid Chiang were working on Petunia with Chelsea Lau as studio Chief (or maybe she was just a manager at the time). Both Sid and Camillo did some very aggressive and modern design proposals. J Mays didn't want to go new with it. J wanted to go retro. It's a shame that the world will never see what Sid and Camilo actually wanted to do. One earlier iteration of the retro version of the GT design had a much shorter front overhang and smaller more compact proportions overall. It still housed all the mechanicals that eventually ended up in the production car but the smaller car would have been faster and lighter. J didn't like it because it looked less impressive so they added the extra length. J sent a lot of good design work back into the clay oven.
Ford's biggest mistake was installing an overrated, disappointing "Ecoboost" V6 in the 2017-2020 models. They do not compare to the great Ford GT of 2004-06. That robust, intensely engineered supercharged V8 was the best thing that happened to Ford. And that is why the Ford GT from 2004-06 remains the greatest production car ever made by Ford.
@@cesarpalmos8235 it’s not overrated it’s a great engine. Won Ford GTLM class in LeMans lapping the corvettes. Just would’ve been nice to hear V8 roar when you floor it in a Ford GT.
@@CoyoteFTW I think it is one of the greatest small displacement engines there is. It is great to hear a v8 roar, but the Ford GT is a perfectly engineered in my opinion. Just like the 05 models, I believe the new GT has a lot of potential. A 700hp version of the new GT, which is only 40 hp more than stock, can actually beat a McLaren Sienna on the track.
Back when I worked at a Ford dealership and being a new tech fresh out of the ASSET program, I was all about the svt line and taking all the classes and getting certified to work on the " big boy " toys. I remember the day we got two of these and they got shipped sealed and on casters. We had to push them into the show room . If anyone remembers tousley Ford in white bear MN , that parking lot was a down hill 😕 " if this 150,000 dollar car gets away from us this is gonna suck " .
How come I keep thinking about Alonzo Bowden when you are narrating? It's very impressive motoring vlog. Very accurate and revealing. Keep up the good work 👌
FORD GT brought back some credence of Leadership in High Performance Sportcar manufacturing back to FORD! Thank You So Much FORD GT & to 337 Speed for the Feel Good Presentation! Now FORD have to crawl back to be the Leader in the Electric Vehicle transition for the Next Generation to buy & to remember! 🌷🌿
3000hp on the STOCK BLOCK is absolutely mind blowing stuff. This generation of ford GT is one of the great road cars in history
Sounds to me like they did some Toyota-esque overengineering on that one, and it paid off for the tuning community
@@geronimowindow no, it was a Ford-“esque” move their mod motor blocks hold insane amount of power. This Ford GT also uses stock heads. The suspension of the car is also stock, so is the body little no aero work.
it is so great that Ford is going to stop making it because no one is buying it
@@CoyoteFTW it simply doesn’t make sense to me. You mean to tell me that Ford was building ALUMINUM blocks in 2005 that could make 3000 horsepower without cracking and putting them into production cars? That doesn’t seem physically possible. Bugatti engineered the veyron to be the fastest car in the world and I don’t think that the W16 in that car that made close to 1500 whp in the Chiron SS could handle double it’s factory output. It’s simply not possible
@@lucasjaramillo3478 3,000? Add another 1,000. MMR Racing, factory block and heads. 4,000hp, 10,000rpm.
I still remember as a kid watching the video of the Ford GT breaking 263 mph at the Texas Mile in 2012. If I thought that was fast back then, now I'm hearing about one going 300 mph
300 mph and street legal. Like you can actually drive it on dot sanctioned roads? Or does that race street class?
I remember watching one go 309mph at the Texas mile with factory aero
@@raymondjack4634 - it’s registered and insured street legal car. 15 yr old Ford GT did what Bugatti said was impossible. 300 mph. Makes it even more impressive it reached 300mph in ONE MILE.
@@CoyoteFTW thank you, it just blows my mind someone could be driving this to work everyday.
@@raymondjack4634 yes. it meets all safety and emissions standards to legally drive on public roads and highways
And it broke 300 mph within one mile, too. Simply amazing!
310.8 now!
Standing Mile exactly
One mile!? That’s insane
And now it’s also the first street legal 500 km/h car. BADD GT went hard.
308 when Patrick lifted....
Remember, it's also the industrial chemists who developed tires that would hold these supercars on the road without breaking up. THAT was also brilliant technology. My dad was one them.
Props to him
Where the rubber meets the road
Amazing!! So few go fast gurus realize that if it were not for the design engineers-chemists-production engineers, these speeds would never ever been achieved. You must be very proud of your dad!
We're those street legal? Pretty unreal regardless, truly impressive.
My respect for your father. Good tires are one of the most important things on a performance car. Cant grip, put power to the road, or will just fail from the power and speed.
Never really been a Ford guy, but the 05-06 GT is without a doubt one of the coolest cars ever made.
so iconic fr
yes it is a very cool car but the 2019 GT 40 is way better..
@@Herrera419 On paper of course. I'm a Ford guy and LOVE the New Ford GT but it's not nearly as iconic or as impressive for it's time as this car. Still a great car though that gets more hate than it deserves.
@@Herrera419 it's a great car, don't get me wrong. Just not for me. Not a huge fan of the design.
@@Herrera419 no it isn't. That car is genuine garbage
3000 hp on a stock engine block??? That’s mind blowing and fantastic original engineering from Ford.
Viper hold my beer
@@GF-mf7ml There isn’t a viper close to 300 mph. And the engine is a V10 built by Lamborghini displaces 8.4 Liters! You’re comparing that to a 5.4l. I remember when they had to lower the selling price for the viper by like 30k because it wouldn’t sell.
@@CoyoteFTW The Viper is just a basically 1990's version of the 1960's Shelby / AC cobra. Giant engine in a lightweight 2 seat front engine car, attractive to mental motorheads who think horsepower and noise, is everything. The GT is a race proven mid engine design, just brought to it's peak performance.
@@CoyoteFTW True
@@CoyoteFTW - And it still didn't sell, that's why it is gone! Lol The Viper turned out to be no more than a grass snake. 😂
People don't understand how phucking bananas it is to go 0-300mph in a 1 phucking mile AND could drive it home. Still blows my mind..
Truly, as most top speed runs I’ve seen are done in well over a mile
With stock block amazing
Makes you wonder how fast it could go if it had more space
It’s bananas to go 0-300, period. Aero drag rises not as a square, but a cubed factor of speed, if I remember correctly. 300 in a Bonneville car shaped like a tuna is impressive. In this.. well, as you said. Bananas.
3000 hp on a non sleeved/ non bored block is absolutely insane
Honestly my new favorite mini series. Love these. You’re a fantastic narrator and the content is awesome as well.
sameee broo
Thanks man really appreciate it! More to Come!
@@337speed same keep doing this
that a fast reply
@@337speed GT90 sounds nasty affff
I raced a 05-06 Ford GT on a highway in SandSprings Oklahoma and it stayed right on my ass the entire time. I was on a 2008 CBR 1000RR lowered with cam, velocity stacks, and tune. I was suprised he could keep up with me. He would have passed me over 180 but I think he was thinking about keeping me alive.
GT has your ass beat in the aero department, bikes over 100 have a ton of drag
the GT90 should have been produced , it was amazing
Agreed!
I’ve got the Hot Wheels version. Agree completely
STILL looks fantastic even now !!
Now would be the ideal time for that styling to be reused again
@@rhythmoftheknight4609 very true , it would be a hit today
I fell in love with this car when I was just 8 years old. Growing up, I watched nearly every single Ford GT video ever made. I'm 25 now and it is still my dream car
I’ve never heard the GT90 described as controversial. It’s one of the few concept cars people even remember. People I’ve seen love it. I love it. It looks timeless. Most people would never guess when it was created if they know nothing about it.
Agree with that completely.
I know that they had plenty of reason to use the V6 tt in the most recent GT but man it would've been so so cool to see something like the GT500 engine or something similar in there.
I absolutely love the design though. One of the best looking cars I've ever seen.
The new line of predator 5.2 supercharged engines would've been nuts in the gt
@@dennismorgan354 even the voodoo would've been cool. I know it isn't as powerful but the novelty factor is super cool.
yeah it definitelty deserved its own special v8 but ford wanted to push the ecoboost
@@WhuDhat nope it's not because Ford wanted to push the EB. If only you knew the main reason why they put the TT V6 in the gen2 GT and racecar..
Ecoboom, no thanks.
Still amazing that a Ford GT, still road legal, was made to reach 300MPH. Took another decade and a half for another car company, bugatti, to make a road legal 300mph car, among others. GT was just so far ahead of it's time, people could really make it drive any way they wanted, rather than hyper expensive factory options. Bet the GT still even drives pretty normally around the road, even with the 3000HP.
John claims that he occasionally drives it on the street - runs errands, takes his kids to school, and so forth. With that said, he probably doesn't street-drive it a whole lot. One drunk driver, and he's out decades of work and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
It wouldn't be too surprising, though, if he detunes it off the track. That wouldn't be too hard: change the EFI mapping, run it on pump gas instead of race gas, take the nitrous bottle and logging electronics out, put mufflers and bumpers on, open the wastegates early, and so forth. It might still be a handful, though.
And this time it actually crossed 310mph as well setting a new world record just last week!
Dad was part of the initial development team in skunkworks, they were originally going to go with a direct homologation of the gt40 mk1 but that idea got scrapped after new safety regulations and fueling were needed for economy. It’s a good thing superformance is basically doing that today.
Wait, you talkin’ ‘bout Lockheed Skunk Works or a different Skunk Works?
Hats off to Ford for pushing the boundaries of automotive engineering!
The quality of the content you ate making is setting the bar! I love this channel!
Sweet, I have a Ford 5.4 liter v-8 in my Expedition! Great to know that I'm just a few simple mods away from greatness!
Noooooooo that's a very different 5.4L.
@@jamesturner2126 idk man, i got a 4.6 (same motor just shorter stroke) and they are a single turbo and injectors away from making the least reliable 496 hp ive ever made
@@michealgray533 that's not how these work at all. There's about 10 different Ford 4.6L and 10 different Ford 5.4L.
@@jamesturner2126 bro legit 4 main variants of both engines the 2v, 3v, 4v and the supercharged variants the most common being the 2v and 3v motors all had the same problem from a tuning standpoint, the relatively weak internals not standing up to much power as most would like and the heads on the 2v flow like shit so the most cost efficient way of making power in these engines is boost but only up to certain point
it’s hard to make cheap power on these motors if you don’t have a 4v or factory supercharged motor
@@jamesturner2126 oh and the 5.4L 2v and the 4.6L 2v are the same exact motor down to the wiring harness just a different stroke so it makes more torque early on
T6 is the ageing condition of the _A356_ aluminium alloy used for the block. It's the alloy system here that's important to emphasise seeing as almost every cast aluminum alloy used for engine blocks will be in the T6 and maximum strength heat treatment condition
I'm really glad I found these videos. No bias, no stupid bs just interesting information in a to the point package. Respect to you 337. By the way, could you do the Cosworth YB if you can gather enough information to create a video. I'm not sure how many markets got the engine but it was in the Sierra Cosworth in the UK. Maybe an engine a lot of people aren't aware of
Those engines were very unreliable. But, when they work, they're monsters.
@@97Ant I know they aren't the best but they're not too bad when looked after properly, just giving ideas as I'd like this series of vids to continue
@@jcc3494 Yeah, I know. That would be a dope video to see. I'd also like to see one on the Barra engine. Those things are insane.
@@97Ant Worked very well at Bathurst in the Cosworth Sierra for a 1,000km at a time, and would have wiped the Nissan GTR, if it didn't have the limitation on tyres. Having to be the same biscuit size as a naturally aspirated 2L due to regulations, meant it ate tyres all too easily !!
@@97Ant no they weren’t
Bruh the GT90 was gorgeous. Truly a sin we never got that.
I love the sound of the Ford GT. For me probably the best sounding V8 ever made. They swapped from manual to semi-automatic gearboxes on race cars after a while which was sad because the manual gear shifts sounded extremely cool.
@CrossEyedLion - The '05 and '06 Ford GT had a 6 speed manual only, and the current Ford GT has always had the dual clutch 7 speed semi-auto. Even the Corvette is now auto. only.😩
Dude, I literally WAIT for your videos. Hands down the BEST. Keep it coming man, and LMK if you do a premium tier, you got me HOOKED
Litteraly saw and badass old man hit 310 with his
A top 10 performance engine video could definitely come from this at a milestone(video 50/100 etc). Everyone talks about significance historically but noone seems to have the guts to put a personal ranking on cars/engines on the basis of cost and performance alone.
Crazy thing someone just recently broke that top speed run with another Ford GT. I think it hit 310mph… man those cars are beasts
You're giving too much credit to the car. You put 3,000hp in damn near anything and it will achieve a very high top speed! The stock speed of this car is 200mph - if that isn't fast enough for you, take up flying!
@@Loulovesspeed brah who put you panties in a bunch. Who saying 200MPH isn’t fast. The aerodynamic of the Ford GT allows it to hit that’s high of a speed. Relax there buddy
@@TheDireWolf97 - I'm not a brah and I don't wear panties. I have too many miles on me to waste time with a single minded juvenile like you.
@@Loulovesspeedyeah I wanna see you do 310mph in a Honda and make it out alive
@@wtf-hc3tp - Well then Junior, you have a long wait! I have much more important and valuable things to do in life.
RWD doing 300 in a mile. Meanwhile AWD Lambos are spinning out and destroying themselves all over the place doing the same standing mile. That thing was built so fine. There will be faster cars but probably never another with the perfect combination of a manual shift mid engine V8 goodness with beauty that will make the dead rise just to come take a look.
Amen to that brother
Ford did it first. 300 MPH. Hennessy, Koeniggsegg, Bugatti, and Tautara still have yet to get there.
A Ford vehicle did it, not Ford Motor Co. They had no involvement in that car as it was run.
Look how ahead of it's time the GT90 was. That thing would sell like hotcakes today and I don't think the price would matter.
I'm a GM guy but I have zero problems acknowledging the Ford GT is a masterpiece on 4 wheels. Too bad they didn't make some more of those 300mph beasts. I doubt I'm the only one who'd love to see several overly arrogant European auto manufacturers shut up and put in line for a bit..... If for any reason it would have shaken up the entire auto industry and the responses would have been interesting.
Mercedes T80 fom 1939 does 650Km/h on the Autobahn. Mercedes built exact copys of the T80 new.
Scott: that’s OK, I’m a Ford guy all the way… and a closet Chevy lover. 🤣👊
You expressed what every American race fan was thinking, along with Shelby and Ford, back in 1964.
@@aerialcat1 there's only 3 chevy cars I like the corvette, the camaro and the El camino the rest are crap.
@@Dr.Mcstaby It’s their engines that I like, in 1955 they finally built one that could beat a Ford Flathead V-8.
3000 on the stock block? Sweet mother of god
It’s crazy, if you actually find pictures of 05-06 GT blocks they are very robust with a lot of webbing and closed deck. Still blows my mind tho😂
@@337speed yeah no modular, coyote, or ls doing anywhere close to that
Could you do a video on the R8/Huracan v10 and what makes them so suitable for twin turbo applications? Love your content !
Ooooh that’s sounds pretty good actually👍💯
@@337speed 👌
@@337speed I'd watch that
Great idea
@@erikmacaluso me too bro
This is the ultimate Ford car, the cream of the crop
The rear side shot at 4:30 replete with flames is epic!
My employee number is 337, but more importantly my boss has an 05 GT40, blue with white stripes and the infamous condensation in the headlights, lol.
He owns several iconic cars - '61 white Mercedes Benz 300 SEL, '69 Camaro, '65 Mustang, and several other old classics, also has the '16 Ford GT and C8 Vette. The luxuries of owning 6 dealerships 😂 - Toyota, Subaru, Mitsubishi, Range Rover, BMW & Mini. Reminds me, he has a BMW i8 as well, it's actually pretty cool.
My employee number was also 337 when I was in machining some years back. Those sounds like some really nice cars btw, he must love them!
Lets go! 337 dropping another banger
I love how many routes you go with this series love every upload
I remembered playing these need for speed games. All the fastest cars in the planet. This Ford from 1995 was a beast.
Johnny Bohmer! They've gone like 338mph!
I remember this guy go and well over 300 miles an hour a years ago... I had a magazine that had a review of it Heavy Hitters. Brought that to work and shit on my buddies who are into imports and Chevy's
Ah yes, the same guy who never ran close to his claims at events that he didn't have the equipment set up at lol
@@Wopadas You mean the one that they gave this certificate from Guinness too... With the facility where everyone goes into his high speed testing at that guy
@@chrismathes3647 You realize that he paid for Guinness to come out and they did nothing but show up. Equipment was set up by his people. Same guy tried to pass off his sub 1000rwhp C5 went 252mph in the standing mile. If that doesn't set off your BS meter, I've got a bridge to sell you.
@@Wopadas OK 👍
You do understand everyone pays Guinness and they just show up and verify measured times? He's taken 3 different Guinness records... Callaway built the sledgehammer that went 255mph with something like 800 RWHP so I don't know maybe his Corvette went as fast as it did I wouldn't consider hes probably more credible than yourself.
@@chrismathes3647 Guinness do not verify the equipment is set up correctly. Callaway’s Sledgehammer did that on a 7.5 mile oval. Bohmer’s claims are in a standing mile, you need a lot more power to do it in that distance.
ken miles would be proud if he lived to see and try this GT
Thanks for mentioning Ken. None of these machines would ever have come to fruition if not for he and Shelby.
One of the all time greats, stories of the might of the Ford GT rage through the halls of Valhalla
I cannot fucking believe that stock block handled 3000 hp and over 50 fucking pounds of boost
Its not so stock , it was predicted for racing and manufactured like that
If you’ve ever had one of these, you hit your head on those darn doors half the time if you forget. This is a fabulous video. You are so knowledgeable. I didn’t know about the XJ220
XJ220 was a very unique car, and probably super rare now. And had a twin turbo V6 in it...
I remember being 29 years old and seeing the 2005 GT model on the showroom floor…. If only I knew then what I know now.
Was making breakfast and what better way to enjoy it with 337 Dropping another banger 🔥
I like the new layout when you explain and you construction in a chart format
The gt90 is literally fords Bugatti
Veyron?
@@tmo2798 or Chiron it's like the same engine
@@jordangarza8877 That's right. Maybe he is justified in just pointing out the company. But no, they made literally, tons, of other cars. So yeah, he should've mentioned either one of those models we brought up. Good point.
@@jordangarza8877 On second thought, the GT90 never even went into production. So it'd be more like Chrysler's 'Firepower'. Just a little more hardcore.
@@tmo2798 I like the sound of Fords Bugatti more
did anyone else play ford street racing on the ps2?
Not a big deal but pretty sure it was a lysholm twin screw blower not eaton which only uses roots type which im pretty sure had not released their tvs rotors yet so it would be the older 60 degree 3 lobe rotors like the early gt500s with their m122 blowers.
That's right, Ford always did it first! Find new roads Chevy, cause we don't want you on ours.
God damn that last clip was so aggressive I went into fight mode.
Do the 3.0/3.2L SHO V6 found in the first and second gen Ford Taurus SHO please
My cousin had one, bright red ugly as hell but so much fun to surprise people with from a stop light
@@YOSHI450R Exact reason I love it 🤣, I suprised four guys in a new lexus one time in mine
In 2006 the owner of the project I was working on bought 3 GT40 cars and 2 GT500 cars and had them delivered to the shop. Those GT40 cars were beautiful and I remember the whole underside of the GT40 cars were completely covered by sheets of aluminum. The GT40 cars were blue with white stripes, white with blue stripes and black with silver stripes. The GT500 cars were blue with white stripes and white with blue stripes, both GT500 cars were signed by Carol Shelby on the dash. The GT500 cars were cool especially the white with blue stripes one as it came with the top tier race package, however I was all about those GT40 cars..
What I wanna know is who makes tires that can survive 300 mph for that distance?
You have to ask the manufacturer to custom build them per your specs. I know Continental and Goodyear are pretty good at that. They won't be cheap though!!
Goodyear has tire going 330 mph
I actually got to see the GT90 Concept a couple months ago. Absolutely surreal to see it in the flesh.
great vid! Loved that car when it launched (the new one... not so much as I think they completely missed the mark on what the essence of the car is). Had no idea someone made a version that could go 300mph!!
3000hp on a stock block is fucking nutty. kudos to ford, that's genuinely impressive.
Love this type of videos.
I am so happy I found your channel. I'm sure many people can relate; this is easily the best auto series. I am learning so much
that’s just ford power ain’t no Chevy or a hemi doing that😂
the sound it makes just gives me goosebumps, beautiful
Can you do a series on engines that were good on paper but were problematic like the Nortstar?
Every American ecotec motor
The infamous Oldsmobile gas/diesel conversion V8. What a complete disaster that was! 🥵
That thing doing a flyby and on the rolling road, Wow! Well put together car and video, gret work 337Speed!
I have both a second generation (2005) and a third generation (2019) Ford GT's
They are so much fun to drive, take occasionally to the track and share with the public such as car shows.
You did an excellent job with this video and have honored the Ford GT and Fords performance/racing Heritage. Thank you.
Which is your favorite and why? Awesome cars for sure.
@@REDVETTExxx I love them both equally.
Some Very Lucky Man !👏👏
@@zarkocvrtila5858 Thank you very much. Mostly it was from hard work and sacrifice. With a little luck mixed in 👍
The real secret to a high performance engine (as GM has discovered finally) is to abandon the push rod actuation of the valve train, either a Desmodromic, or chain driven DOHC layout with 4 valves per cylinder (to enable an ideal breathing cycle) gives the best results. This layout also removes the need to keep increasing the engine's capacity (and weight) by giving the ability for much higher revs. The DOHC chain driven system, precludes valve float, allowing for a smaller capacity engine to rev much higher. As demonstrated in GM's Corvette. This is hardly a secret really, it is simply that the USA has long taken a different direction, owing to the extraordinary low prices for fuel. The forced induction path is also an excellent approach, but again, with a smaller capacity engine, a higher revving unit can still deliver high torque and HP outputs.
Accufab John mihovetz holds the nhra record against big blocks with a stock block cobra teksid 4.6....5sec 250mph 3,500hp...
Great to see this well documented video. Thank you.
I made 1200whp through a BONE STOCK 2019 mustang GT engine/trans/diff/axles by adding twin turbos, on e85. Ford really does over engineer some of its modular V8s. I only dream of owning a Ford GT..
shit man i wish that was the case on the old 4.6L 2v, such a headache trying to make power, the internals are only good for maybe 8 lbs of boost and thats pushing your luck.
all of that for maybe 500 hp
The original Gt90 design was going to use 2 Yamaha SHO v6 engines joined to make a v12 with 4 turbo units. During the design phase Ford stopped using the Yamaha engines and switched to the modular V12 custom engine. The Yamaha SHO v12 also had 4 turbos and 720 hp.
One of my most favorite cars of all time. Thank you for making a video on it!💪🏽
Man these animations and narration just earned you a subscriber
These cars are still increasing in value!! You see them n you are immediately drawn to them, pleasing to the eyes and a wonderful treat for your ears 👂 !! Great content!! My 2010 GT500 has its heart ❤️ !! Thanks great content
@Ricardo Corbie - Yes, they are increasing in value, as long as they are not modified to make a zillion hp!
Camillo was my friend at the time he was doing the GT (I"ve kinda lost track of him lately). He and Sid Chiang were working on Petunia with Chelsea Lau as studio Chief (or maybe she was just a manager at the time). Both Sid and Camillo did some very aggressive and modern design proposals. J Mays didn't want to go new with it. J wanted to go retro. It's a shame that the world will never see what Sid and Camilo actually wanted to do. One earlier iteration of the retro version of the GT design had a much shorter front overhang and smaller more compact proportions overall. It still housed all the mechanicals that eventually ended up in the production car but the smaller car would have been faster and lighter. J didn't like it because it looked less impressive so they added the extra length. J sent a lot of good design work back into the clay oven.
Ford's biggest mistake was installing an overrated, disappointing "Ecoboost" V6 in the 2017-2020 models. They do not compare to the great Ford GT of 2004-06. That robust, intensely engineered supercharged V8 was the best thing that happened to Ford. And that is why the Ford GT from 2004-06 remains the greatest production car ever made by Ford.
why is the EcoBoost overrated?
@@cesarpalmos8235 it’s not overrated it’s a great engine. Won Ford GTLM class in LeMans lapping the corvettes. Just would’ve been nice to hear V8 roar when you floor it in a Ford GT.
@@CoyoteFTW I think it is one of the greatest small displacement engines there is. It is great to hear a v8 roar, but the Ford GT is a perfectly engineered in my opinion. Just like the 05 models, I believe the new GT has a lot of potential. A 700hp version of the new GT, which is only 40 hp more than stock, can actually beat a McLaren Sienna on the track.
They ran the EcoBoost Ford GT at 800horsepower around Daytona.
@@jamesturner2126 I knew they had the 700 hp variant in the MKII, but didn't know they pushed even more power. 800hp is incredible from 3.5 liters.
Back when I worked at a Ford dealership and being a new tech fresh out of the ASSET program, I was all about the svt line and taking all the classes and getting certified to work on the " big boy " toys. I remember the day we got two of these and they got shipped sealed and on casters. We had to push them into the show room . If anyone remembers tousley Ford in white bear MN , that parking lot was a down hill 😕 " if this 150,000 dollar car gets away from us this is gonna suck " .
The V6 will never be this badass. I don’t care what the fan boys say. The 05-06 GT is leagues ahead of the V6 one…
God what a sound coming out of that thing at 4:34
Love the subtle battlefield 5 last tiger music in the background
The GT really is a masterpiece and i celebrate Ford and the engineers who made it happen. It also looks cool as hell.
The AERO on the car looked frigging STOCK TOO....DAM
Brother, you work is so dang good!
How come I keep thinking about Alonzo Bowden when you are narrating? It's very impressive motoring vlog. Very accurate and revealing. Keep up the good work 👌
I actually saw one in traffic locally a few years ago, it was beautiful
The GT is badass, but I would definately love to see the GT90 on the streets as well, too bad it didn't go into production.
Ford while making the gt: do we think people are going to leave it stock?... nah hey Greg make it able to hold 3000hp on stock block
Ford is simply the best.
That's a dream car right there, Ford GT is and will be one of the greatest cars every produced in the entire history of automotive excellence.
Well this one made it to my favorites in less than 8 minutes.
Camilo Pardo is genius
I'm a loyal Chevy guy but two Ford vehicle's I absolutely love 1969 mustang fastback and the Ford GT two of my all-time favorites.
Love the serious tone of this series
I appreciate you homie. Your videos are excellent.
FORD GT brought back some credence of Leadership in High Performance Sportcar manufacturing back to FORD! Thank You So Much FORD GT & to 337 Speed for the Feel Good Presentation! Now FORD have to crawl back to be the Leader in the Electric Vehicle transition for the Next Generation to buy & to remember! 🌷🌿
Ford gt the only american car that became a champion at the european race called le mans ✊😎
That guy drove right past my house last year in the car. Even at idle and very light throttle it sounded out of this world
Smooth video. Love your editing style- informative and evocative. Subbed. ❤️
Man your narrration has gotten so much better since the start of this series keep up the good work and shelling out these bangers
Dude. Your voice is badass, you should try voice acting