New Ford Mustang Shelby GT350

Ay! After spyshots, waiting, teaser, stress, here is finally this new sports version of the Ford pony car. With the arrival of this new Mustang Shelby GT350, we are at least sure of three things:
1- it turns its back on downsizing
2- it snubs the turbo
3- it adopts some technical solutions that make the 5.2 L V8 mechanical with "letters of nobility"

Shelby is a first look, a recognizable face between one and a wicked cobra attached to a black mesh grille. The new Mustang Shelby GT350 sports a specific aerodynamic kit consists of a new front bumper with spoiler blade, a new bonnet with central boss, front fenders redesigned and expanded, rocker reserved to this version , a new spoiler and a rear bumper that welcomes in its lower part a beautiful diffuser framed by 4 round and chrome exhaust outlets that allow 8-cylinder to breathe and sing well. In fact, all the body parts of the front part of the car are specific to the model. The set was carefully studied in order to promote the flow of the aerodynamic flow and cooling of vital organs of the beautiful American.
Of course there are the famous double bands that sign and Shelby running from the bottom of the front bumper diffuser. tinted windows and large wheels 19-inch aluminum finish beautiful sporty look of this 2016 GT350.

Shelby, this is not just a look, it's also a lot of work on the chassis and obviously on the engine. Knowing that the new Mustang benefits from a chassis 28% stiffer than the old version, the Dearborn manufacturer's engineers were able to install this new sports version of sketches suspensions. Ford and announces geometry of the constant running gear associated with new springs strengthened, a seat lowered compared to that of 5.0 GT and MagneRide dampers on which the driver can act. Ford took the opportunity to better establish its sporty on the road by widening roads and Ar Av.
But that's not all because the Mustang has a new reinforced braking system developed in collaboration with Brembo. This system combines large disks of 394 mm ventilated and drilled in front of the same barrel discs but slightly smaller at the rear (350 mm). These discs are gripped by large calipers 6 piston front and 4 rear.
The sport is placed on new alloy wheels clouded by 10.5 x 19 and 11 x 19 pavement tires Pilot Super Sport developed specially by the manufacturer Clermont. We still do not know the exact weight of the Ford GT350 but clearly implies that he has taken steps to reduce the mass of the car including the front fenders and an aluminum hood. Other pieces have been reviewed and modified to glean grams or small kilos here and there.
After these details related to appearance, the chassis and the brake system, it came time to lift the hood of the US and discover the great novelty of this Shelby GT350, the new V8 5.2 L. While some say "Another big V8 atmo US", others retort "Yes but what a V8! "And fans that we will be tempted to join the panache and technology used by Ford for this" small block "of new generation.
This 8-cylinder V abandons the conventional crankshaft said cross for flat crankshaft as know how to use Italian manufacturers for many years but also on the old Lotus Esprit V8 or F1. This flat crankshaft lot change things in the engine running and the mechanical structure of the car. This begins by lowering the engine's center of gravity due to the "flatness" of the mechanical part but not all since this crankshaft allows a modification of the firing order of the 8 650 cm3 cylinders each (some do not hesitate to say besides that one approaches the principle of the combination of two L4 instead of the pair of V cylinders connected together one after the other, as is often the if the V8). This crankshaft model is in fact identical to that of a L4 except by the fact that crank houses two rods instead of one and that the latter are of course opposed to the V of the engine.

Thus each explosion occurs every 180 ° (half turn) and not every 90 ° (quarter turn) which allows the block to have better skills to gain speed (rotation). If you are looking for why the Italian engines take so many turns and sing so well, do not just look on the side of the exhaust line but take a look at the low engine! Less masses shifted more or less regularly offer ability to block climb faster in the turns while allowing a better evacuation of exhaust gases. Parcontre a flat crankshaft can generate additional vibration which is not the case of cross crankshaft.
At Ford, Jamal Hameedi, chief engineer of Ford Global Performance Vehicles, does not hesitate to say that this new engine remains an American V8 but with a unique character and a raucous chant of its own. To listen so ...
This new mechanical develops more than 500 hp and some 542 Nm but Ford remains discreet on the subject it will be the surprise at the presentation of the car in Los Angeles.

The engine block is associated series to a conventional BVM6 and a Torsen limited slip differential that will allow better control and an ideal distribution of power and torque between the driven rear wheels. Ford seems so happy with this new block that already does not hesitate to say it will be soon a best seller. A check but plausible!
This engine features a new ECU which incorporates a system that offers 5 different modes of management. Those will allow to adjust the ABS, ESP, TCS, firmness of management, mapping of the accelerator, adjusting MagneRide dampers and setting the exhaust depending on the use of Shelby GT350. For those who want to take away the beautiful national or highways, seashores where one cruise elbow to the door or the Cars & Coffee, the manufacturer offers two options. On the one hand a Track Pack that provides additional new oil coolers for mechanical but also the transmission and secondly an anti approximation for the chapels of the front bar which is surprising on such a car.
Ford is still little to say about the cabin but we do know that the Mustang Shelby GT350 forsake his seat sports series to make way for beautiful and effective Recaro bucket. A new steering wheel with flat is also part and chrome as well as shiny coins disappear. This interior fittings gives way to dark or black pieces if only to avoid dazzling flashes due to the sun that could interfere with a pilot stuffed full in a round clock.

We still learn more during this opening week of the Los Angeles Auto Show where Ford has unveiled its new sports. It remains for us Europeans, whether Ford will export the GT350 to the old continent late 2015 or 2016 where it will be content with the current models.