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Originally Posted by blykins
Until you can do that naturally aspirated, you’re not doing it. We can slap a turbo on a 289 and get that much power if desired.
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On the one hand I can agree, but on the other hand apple and oranges. We had to do those things because the factory power was pathetic in the 60's. Today there is not much need to do anything. They even put tires on the car that work.
Us gear heads could always make tons of power, although street manors kind of sucked. Which has always annoyed me that car magazines always want to compare factory cars from the 60's to today's cars. Only grandma's were running a straight factory car in the 60's. Anyone who was a car enthusiast had modified just about everything from the Air filter to the tires and most everything between them. Few muscle cars were factory stock, back then. Everyone at least changed the tires and wheels. The tires that came on Hemi car's couldn't have hooked a slant 6 to the ground, let alone a Hemi. Then some idiot car magazine wants to run it down the 1/4 mile with the original tires on it, to compare to a modern what ever. No one actually drove a Hemi with those tires, after the warranty was gone.
Back to my point. You can say if it ain't NA it doesn't count, and that can be your opinion, but the power and performance is real. This is a new car with a factory warranty that can be a smooth daily driver and at the same time eat alive any 60's muscle car that you or I would have modified back in the day. BTW it meets emissions too. You or I never built such an engine, because that was never our goal. Today Ford has to meet all government regulations and delivered the best performance car they ever built. If you want to complain that forced induction is cheating (you said don't count), fine but you and I don't have to meet all those regulations, so are we cheating?