5.0 vs 3.5 - more reliable when driven hard?

[Snakebitten]

No denying the History made with that amazing machine.

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[JExpedition07]

Hopefully it will have as much success as this glorious example of American excellence!

I am not sure that the GTD will see Le-Mans, but the gen 4 5.0L Coyote will see Le-Mans next year in naturally aspirated form competing in the GT3 and GT4 circuits. I’ll be watching. For America! No doubt the GT made history, I’m just busting your balls lol.

 

[Samson16]

By the way I had a car just like this one and loved it dearly. Sold it to buy a ‘98 Windstar with a 3.8L . 3 kids on our way to 4 and we needed seats lol.

 

[Snakebitten]

I purchased the same exact car, except LX convertible, for my wife. That was one way to get one into the driveway.

 

[Chili]

2.7 is Fords most reliable F150 engine. 5.0 and 3.5 are about tied. 5.0 had a LOT of issues 18-20 and should be less problematic, the 3.5 shouldn't have as many cam phaser issues as before. Do not believe the hype the 5.0 is a tried and true simple 8, it's not.

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3.5 / 5.0 are a tie

 

[780]

Bro you literally cannot be serious? A Dark Horse starts at $56,000, an M3 starts at $76,000. You think dealer mark ups don’t apply to the M3 lmfao. The reality is the American DOHC V8 curb stomps turbocharged competition in this bracket dollar for dollar, GM has caught on to this with the new 5.5 DOHC in the Vette. I can buy a 760 horsepower GT-500 for the cost of a M3 with performance pack. The motor is 10X the motor that BMW has, the only thing holding it back is RWD. Hell, buy a GT and get the 800 horsepower FP800 pack and you are still ahead.

I am a red blooded American, not a euro boy. I’ll stick to my 8 pistons till you pull them from my cold dead hands. George Washington didn’t surrender to the British, I’m certainly not surrendering to their engineering.

BMW is German, not British?

 

[JExpedition07]

BMW is German, not British?

I’m aware, but Germany never occupied the United States. The only European country that did that was GB. Euro manufacturers are all very similar in philosophy vs American manufacturers.

 

[Calson]

Repair history is worse for the V-8 engine. The usual weak point of a turbo boost engine does not seem to be the case with the Ford 3.5L engine.

Check out carcomplaints.com to read about owners reporting problems with their trucks. Many complaints about the 2019 F-150 and it was for the 5.0 engine and the transmission.

https://www.carcomplaints.com/Ford/F-150/2019/engine/excessive_oil_consumption.shtml

Tougher on a vehicle is stop and go or prolonged off the road driving. This affects the recommended service intervals as this is considered to be "severe duty" use.

 

[780]

6.0 and 6.4 sure. But the 6.7 has been pretty good.

 

[780]

I’m aware, but Germany never occupied the United States. The only European country that did that was GB. Euro manufacturers are all very similar in philosophy vs American manufacturers.

How so?

 

[Graygoose2021]

By the way I had a car just like this one and loved it dearly. Sold it to buy a ‘98 Windstar with a 3.8L . 3 kids on our way to 4 and we needed seats lol.

My buddies Foxbody 4 eye...can do 200 mile cruise, and run 7.23@193

Me and my boys have had like 4-5 Foxbodies...sadly, we all kinda grew out of em

 

[JExpedition07]

How so?

Lots of basics. Vehicle shape, American vehicles are larger, heavier, and wider. Americans like RWD longitudinal layouts, European manufacturers typically avoid that application—we love it in everything, literally everything. Engine design. Just look at Le-Mans, last year we had a pushrod V8 and a naturally aspirated DOHC V8 both racing under Chevy. Next year Chevy will be sending the DOHC V8 again, and Ford will be sending the 5.0L Coyote and well as a 5.4L stroker Coyote. Everyone else across the globe competing in these circuits is running forced induction in smaller displacement packages or smaller high revving V-12 with very small bores. Americans use cubic inches with larger bores/pistons in a 90 degree V-8 formation.

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