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Originally Posted by chernaudi
Roush said in their press release that they're evalutating the Mustang V8(be it the GA 5.0 Cammer or the new 5.0 Mustang road car V8-all are bascially derivitives of the Ford 4.6 Mod motor) for a new LMP2 engine (remember, the max for a NA engine in LMP2 is a 5 liter V8) and an LMP1 engine as well (I'm interested in what they'd use for that, or wait until the 2014 rules with a proposed unlimited engine capacity).
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Ford does not have a 4 cylinder engine they can use for competition. They dropped the ball on Formula Ford and HPD/Honda jumped into that space, Ford reacted too late.
The Ecoboost V6 will be used and that a direct rival to HPD's Twin Turbo V6. The other option and I have mentioned this at least 10 times. The "Cammer" 5.0L currently used in GA. HOWEVER, the new "Hurricane" V8 in the 2011 Mustang GT is lighter than that engine and makes more power at 5.0L than the current GA engine.
As for an LMP1 engine, it will likely be based on a production engine.
Rules for production engines aren't known are they? Ford has modular V10's..