After watching heaps of tuners, in addition to sellers like Beechmont Ford Efficiency, supercharge their earnings by supercharging Coyote engines, the manufacturing facility is more and more getting in on the offers. Final summer season, Ford Efficiency created the FP700 package deal for the F-150 for seller showrooms, bolting a 3.0-liter Whipple Supercharger to the 5.0-liter Coyote V8 to create a pickup with 700 horsepower and 599 pound-feet of torque together with a number of visible upgrades. Now, after unveiling an much more potent supercharger package deal at SEMA final yr for the brand new Mustang GT and Darkish Horse, the efficiency outpost is prepared for retail gross sales. The sweetener known as the 2024 Mustang GT and Darkish Horse Supercharger Equipment, and it bestows 800 hp on a GT or Darkish Horse with out lively exhaust, or a good sweeter 810 hp with the lively exhaust. Torque climbs to 615 pound-feet, fancy pipes or no, making this appropriate with the six-speed guide or the ten-speed computerized.
The figures demolish inventory outputs, a 2024 Mustang GT on the showroom flooring making 486 hp and 418 lb-ft. of torque, the Darkish Horse upping that to 500 hp and 418 lb-ft.
That is the form of inflation we wish to see. As anticipated, the inflationary stress comes from Whipple, a Gen 6 3.0-liter twin-screw supercharger working with a dual-pass intercooler. Ford Efficiency says the package additionally features a dual-air consumption resulting in a 92-mm throttle physique, new, extra sturdy spark plugs with a colder warmth vary than the inventory plugs, port gas injectors from the GT500, and a Tomahawk calibration software to make sure the right tune. The Mustang present automotive that Ford used for the reveal at SEMA additionally fitted ancillaries like a brand new gas rail and new half shafts, two objects that ought to positively be within the price range when including this a lot energy.
The package, half quantity M-6066-M8800, prices $9,995 earlier than set up. If consumers get a Ford seller or ASE licensed technician to do the set up, and register the construct with the Ford Efficiency Tech-line, the setup comes with a manufacturing facility three-year or 36,000-mile guarantee.
The small print? The package is 49-state authorized, a disclaimer on the prime of the sale web page explaining that whereas Ford has decided that the package is road-legal and has no hostile results on emissions, it is not permitted to be used in California. Additionally, consumers might want to refill with 91-octane premium gas to get the acknowledged energy figures.
Since it is a Whipple charger, that firm sells the identical setup. Maybe to entice consumers away from the manufacturing facility choice, Whipple’s Gen 6 Stage 1 supercharger at first seems to undercut the Ford choice, promoting for $9,295. Nevertheless, Whipple’s powertrain guarantee is a $700 choice, making issues nearly equal. A Gen 2 model takes output to 855 hp with a 112-mm throttle physique.
We write “almost” as a result of Whipple says its energy figures require 93 octane, and extra importantly, the supercharger in both stage is “Currently not emissions legal.”
And since tuning has at all times been about alternative, in case your blower preferences lean towards the Roush facet, there’s at all times the Roush Section 2 construct at Beechmont Ford Efficiency that runs output to 750 hp and 670 lb-ft, prices $11,450 put in, and comes with the 3-year/36,000-mile guarantee honored at any Ford seller.
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