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Originally Posted by JAG
I suppose you could interprete that one of three ways.
1. An ALMS only P1 Mustang V8 engine (unless the ACO also allow such engines).
2. A P1 3.4l engine from the same Mustang V8.
3. An entirely new ACO compliant P1 engine.
It sounds like the ALMS will be moving back to P1/P2 regs as I don't see 2011 P2's being helped to compete for overall wins due to it being a budget class.
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A) Ford will not build a bespoke engine, forget it, won't happen.
B) I believe production based LMP1 engines are bigger than 5.0L. I don't know the current displacement limit on the Hurricane engine. The Cammer is limited to about 5.5-5.6L, very thin walls.
C) 3.4L is the limit for a pure racing V8. I am almost positive they will allow up to 6.0L for a production N/A V8 engine. The Hurricane is already 6.2L I believe the V12 AMR engine is 6.0L. Hurricane is SOHC and Cast Iron block, but can be easily made into Aluminum.
Roush-Yates dyno'ed run 24/7, I much rather have a engine from a hard-core engine supplier like HPD or Ford.