I take no offense at your comment concerning the V-6 Stallion. But I would like to clarify a couple things and help develop a relationship here in a good starting point.
I tend to write novels. The fellas know it and most are used to it. Please take a moment to read this and consider what I am saying. I am not being a smart-butt or trying to be rude or poke fun at your opinion or what you have said. With this said……….
I accept your opinion. However, the way you deliver an opinion in forums is the starting point of building relationships that get you the help and information you are looking for or into an unproductive verbal banter match that produces nothing positive to the forum or its members. Next time you are in the garage Sport, you may want to bust out the angle grinder and take the edges off the delivery. Your final post explains well where you were coming from and for that I thank you.
Since you made mention that you have never owned a V-6 Mustang, I will suggest that you be cautious with your future opinions until you have acquired some additional knowledge of these vehicles. I have no idea what your technical background is but engineering principals show that pure engine displacement has very little to do with peek HP and TQ. Only you can decide what is best for you, but be careful when making large generalized comments concerning a V-8 beating most other cars and never owning a V-6 Mustang. We never know what life has in store for us. Let’s assume that a twist of fate landed you as the owner of a Shelby C6 Mustang, I would hope you would not turn it down simply because it is a V-6.
If you want to keep up with or “beat most cars on the road”, you have some serious work to do and cash to outlay. In my area of California AMG MBs and BMW M series are a dime a dozen. A 2006 BMW M-5 is packing a 5.0L V-10 with 500 HP while an AMG MB E55 is packing a 5.4L V-8 with 469 HP. We have little Lexus IS 350s driven by most high school and college kids like they are inexpensive Honda Civics. The little IS350 is wielding a V-6 capable of 306hp and is a light little beast. I have seen too many 05/06 GTs make a fatal mistake with this 6 speed competitor. Heck the new little Saturn Sky Turbo 2.0L is a little pumping a weak little 266hp/260 lb-ft of torque with a 0-60 time of 5.5 seconds in a tiny 2800 pound rocket; a worthy advesary to the unfamiliar GT owner with a bad 1st to 2nd misshift with a bad reaction time.
Let us not even get into the Audi R8 and “S” series vehicles that look like family wagons but are packing HP and TQ figures that can shame even the GT500, Roush Stage 3 and Saleen S281s. No, sir, if you are not looking out and are not well aware of your competition in all forms one of these vehicles will land the smack down on your GT and do it with finesse and grace.
Stallionlover, I have owned a 98 V-6/03 GT and the S197 V-6 Coupe with 5 speed AOD. I dumped the V-8 like a lead weight when I saw and drove this V-6. There are many on this board that hold respect for this new platform and 4.0L capability and capacity for modification (forced induction or naturally aspirated).
There are some members here that have taken this 4.0L to a new level - Scrming, Rygenstormlocke & Afixer are our pioneers with this platform V-6. Keep in mind that these gentlemen could have very well dropped the cash on a V-8 to have the same 1/4 mile brackets off the lot as they have achieved with their design and modifications. However, for these fellas, and myself, it is the continual pursuit, design, development and modification of the V-6 to achieve the optimal daily driver/track capable machine that has presented this 4.0L V-6 as a choice vehicle and a builder enthusiast’s dream. It is a quest and a challenge that deserves respect when methodically carried out as these gentlemen have.
Here are a few links to the V-6 forums.
The first one has our member Scrming reaching a 12.85 at 107 ¼ in his V-6. Take a little read and learn to respect the V-6 as more than the 3-speed “Secretary Mustang” of yesteryear.
http://forums.stangnet.com/showthread.php?t=669760
http://forums.stangnet.com/showthread.php?t=659678
http://forums.stangnet.com/showthread.php?t=663036