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Originally posted by Mr.Fixit
It's an all aluminum 5.4 liter with a screw type supercharger that puts out 500 HP and 500 Pounds/Feet Torque
That's not very impressive. I would be very disappointed with a blown motor that only made 500 hp. We routinely get more than that out of a 351w with a single Holley 4bbl and pump gas.
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I don't think it's fair to bring up pump gas as the 5.4l is out of a street-legal vehicle and is designed to run on pump gas as well. As for the HP numbers you've seen out of a 351W, at what rpm?
The 5.4l is all about low-range rpm usage, its torque and HP are all available big-time low-down in the tach. I'm guessing if you wound up a 351W with sufficiently flowing heads and intake and carb, that yes, you could get the big numbers...would you want to run that screamer on the street? I don't think so.
As for the 5.4l available as a crate engine. I'd like to see it too, especially if they could do it for a reasonable dollar figure. I wonder how they'd handle the computer issue though as it is designed to use a unique Motorala PowerPC-based ECM that is unlike any other Ford ECM.
More power to Ford if they do it.