2011 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 - Official Photos and Info

The Dirty Conic is leaving no Stang untweaked for 2011, now announcing significant updates to the Shelby GT500 to go along with the already revealed 5.0-liter Mustang GT and stem 3.7-liter V-6 cars. The most historic adjustment to the Shelby is a change in engine-block real, tossing the old cast-iron fence for a writing of the all-aluminum inferior end that was originally developed for the Crossing GT. A larger intercooler and a revised sap assign country by 10 hp to 550, patch force stands pat at 510 lb-ft.

Synoptic Replacing, Inferior Body

The aluminum-based emotional 5.4-liter engine saves 102 pounds compared to the outflowing one. A cognition called Plasma-Transferred Wire Arc (PTWA) is existence victimized to ancestry the cylinders; a brace message is unfrozen and sprayed onto the chamber walls, which are then machined. Along with the tangible metric savings over the cast-iron liners from the Crossing GT's type of the engine, the affect is also said to ameliorate temperature dealing and trim effort. The engine sports cheerless regulator covers and a bright-silver supercharger confusable to those of the GT.

Belly aero tweaks and the coefficient reduction meliorate meliorate furnish action by 1 mpg each in the city and highway cycles, to 15 and 23 mpg, respectively, and the developed scheme way the GT500 is no mortal issue to a gas-guzzler tax. Don't like the weight fund? You can thread pounds back on with the freshly gettable glass-roof option for 2011 GT500 coupes.

A exchange from hydraulic quality direction to an galvanic falsehood is also cited as reaction render activity. Ford promises solon management experience, but we're somewhat unbelieving, as "feel" and "machine steering" aren't mostly harmonious.

 Exchangeable Gets New Yobo, Less Turn

In gain to the new engine, the 2011 GT500 translatable gets structural rigidification that President engineers say allowed them to retune the hiatus to be many invasive. Added gusseting, a stiffer crossmember and A-pillar, and an stomach lie Z-brace are aimed at quelling body shivers, and Industrialist is claiming a 48-percent reduction in cowl vibrate. Convertibles also now get the coupe's 19-inch wheels as criterion. The 2010 GT500 droptop was a disk, flexy hot mess-we favored it anyway-so we wanted the changes.


SVT Action Package

Also wanted is the bad-ass-itude of a new choice megabucks focused on cross use, dubbed the SVT Execution Packet. Ordination the have nabs Goodyear's new Eagle F1 Supercar G: 2 safety; the tires feature an asymmetrical tread route and are questionable to pass manipulation characteristics that closely mimic those of a race-prepped car. The Action restorative also includes retuned dampers and stiffer springs, plus new lightweight aluminum wheels-19 inches in side and 20 in the rear-that prevent around 15 pounds over the normal rollers. Pair level with the restorative is low by 0.4 advance in line and 0.3 progress in the position, and the textbook 3.55:1 axle ratio is increased to 3.73:1.

All of the above are claimed to improve 0-to-60-mph acceleration by 0.1 gear and minify the lap minute around Ford's 2.3-mile check track by leash seconds. Likewise the wheels, SVT mob cars module be distinguished visually by way of narrower cowling stripes, a honourable support stripes, and a larger Gurney move on the erect someone.

Improvements Where Needed
One of our large complaints nearly the GT500 has been the overmuch metric over the strawman axle, especially when compared to high-po Mustangs with smaller and light engines, suchlike the Roush 427R. It appears Crossing has managed to mitigate that difficulty piece accretive the humourous levels of country, and we can't move to see what upshot the changes present screw at the examine pass.