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CPC 5.2L coming soon?


meyeste

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I love the IMSA GS series and while I get that the ever-changing "fair competition weighting" skews the actual performance of the cars on the track it still shows the Ford 5.2L is one heck of an engine as the Mustang entrants have dominate power despite the Mustang being the largest car in the GS series besides perhaps the aston - which is simply not competitive. In fact I found the Mustang carries the second most "equalization" weight - second only to the Mclaren.

Last year the GT350R-C Mustang won the championship, however I believe it's confirmed that the GT4 Mustang uses a CPC version of the 5.2L, and hey i am not second guessing them just wondering, what drove that decision, has Ford given up on FPC engines? Will the CPC 5.2L find it's way to a production vehicle?

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however I believe it's confirmed that the GT4 Mustang uses a CPC version of the 5.2L, and hey i am not second guessing them just wondering, what drove that decision, has Ford given up on FPC engines? Will the CPC 5.2L find it's way to a production vehicle?

 

That was strictly a racing decision with the CPC version supposedly providing better torque at lower rpm which is better for acceleration out of the corners compared to the high revving FPC.

 

Shouldn't affect the normal production vehicles.

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That was strictly a racing decision with the CPC version supposedly providing better torque at lower rpm which is better for acceleration out of the corners compared to the high revving FPC.

 

Shouldn't affect the normal production vehicles.

Thanks for the response, I had heard the low-end torque is better with the CPC though I wonder if there a trade off in lost high-rpm power? Do you know if the mclaren's use FPC engines? I seems they have an advantage in top-speed however just about all the cars (porsche, camaro, Mustang) are able to take them in the twisties. It does seem like while the CPC engine can get itself through traffic to get in front though it can't run away from the pack like the FPC engine could, it's too bad we can't see the GT350R-C cars on the track vs. the GT4 car.

In my mind the FPC engine is one for top drivers than are able to keep the engine running at high rpm while the CPC may be a bit more forgiving.

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Ferrari is the only other one with a FPC that I'm aware of. The 458 was NA while the 488 has a smaller displacement turbocharged engine.

 

I see no references to the McLaren being FPC. It's the same engine as the production 570s.

I read somewhere all Mclaren engines use FPC, the engine in that car is a 3.8L V8, the production car is a twin-turbo, not sure if they run the turbo's the GT4 versions.

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