Coyote 5.0L...thoughts?

[RACER X #99]

Originally Posted by fordracing65

I had a 5 litre dohc for 5 years in my spf before I sold it, the coyote is so underpowered compared to a windsor or fe its not even funny, the engine is maxed out in natural form, no new tunes can extract any more power, to gain hp naturally the only way to increase is through cubes. The engine is smooth, like a modern car, like I said to each is own

Please explain
The New 5.0 Mustangs run the 1/4 in the 12's stock
The 68 428 Cobra jets ran in the 13's stock
427 Cobras stock ran in the 12's

NO reason why the Coyote 5.0 in a cobra can't run in the 11's
Plus get over 25 MPG

Perhaps your 5.0 was never tuned properly

The biggest advantage the 5.0 has over the other engines are great breathing cylinder heads which has always been the drawback to FE's

I have owned Cobras with FE SO and big cube Windsors so don't tell me about FE's

Just in case you didn't notice the top three finishers in the Rolex 24 at Daytona were all running 5.0 Coyote based engines and they ran more miles that the 427 GT's did back in the sixties.

I would never suggest anybody not run any engine of their choice but to claim the new 5.0's are underpowered simply means you really don't know much about performance engines.