Ford's Special Vehicle Team (SVT) engineers are taking excessive overall performance to a brand new degree with the 2011 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500, ensuing in a vehicle that has an all-new aluminum-block engine, even higher using dynamics and dealing with, advanced gasoline economic system and extra horsepower than ever.
"The SVT crew maintains to push the overall performance requirements of the Shelby to even better degrees and higher refinement," stated Jost Capito, director of world overall performance automobiles and motorsports commercial enterprise development. "All the adjustments we made replicate a choice for even higher dealing with and exceptional using dynamics - from weight financial savings to advanced balance."
Weight financial savings, new era headline all-new aluminum engine
The 2011 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 is powered with the aid of using an all-new aluminum-block five.4-liter supercharged V-eight engine, which produces 550 horsepower and 510 ft.-lb. of torque, a ten horsepower growth as opposed to the 2010 version. The engine is also 102 kilos lighter than its predecessor, turning in a higher electricity-to-weight ratio, advanced gasoline economic system, acceleration, dealing with and steerage precision.
The new engine makes use of contemporary Plasma Transferred Wire Arc (PTWA) liner coating, a method that applies a 150-micron composite coating that includes nanoparticles at the inner surfaces of engine cylinder bores, changing solid iron liners usually utilized in aluminum engine blocks. The Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation commemorated the inventors of the Ford-patented PTWA era with the 2009 National Inventor of the Year Award.
This is the primary Ford software of the era, and it gives advanced general overall performance and sturdiness, together with practical blessings of decreased friction among piston jewelry and cylinder bores, advanced warmth switch because of elevated floor touch location and a weight financial savings of eight.five kilos as compared to a regular metallic-sleeved aluminum block. A mechanical roughening method presents better cloth adhesion for the spray coating.
The PTWA method makes use of air and power to create a plasma jet of 35,000 tiers Fahrenheit, which melts a metallic cord this is fed right into a rotating spray gun. Using atomized air, the melted metallic cord is blown right into a specifically machined floor of the aluminum-block engine cylinder bore. In the method of melting and making use of the steel to the floor, the metallic cord oxidizes, developing a composite coating which include each iron and iron oxide.
"Ford's Global Research and Advanced Engineering seems to all industries for superior technology - and this comes from aerospace. It's the equal era you'll locate on plane engines," stated Glenn Jorgensen, SVT powertrain crew leader. "We've invented a coating as a alternative for forged iron that gives you enhancements in electricity and overall performance and gasoline economic system."
The new engine additionally has its roots withinside the iconic Ford GT. The new five.4-liter engine is an evolution of the GT engine, with advanced block shape thru using a completely unique bulkhead chilled method and six-bolt billet principal bearing caps. This new superior engine will exceed Ford GT overall performance with its conventional supercharger era.
"The Ford GT has solidified itself as one of the world's maximum coveted supercars. To make enhancements to the engine from this supercar and make it to be had in a Mustang is marvelous," stated Kerry Baldori, SVT international overall performance car leader practical engineer. "The aluminum-block engine is strong and robust sufficient to supply the overall performance numbers and sturdiness our clients demand."
Increased electricity and elevated gasoline economic system
The 2011 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 combines electricity and gasoline economic system into one marvelous package deal. This 2011 Shelby GT500 might be the primary present day Shelby with out the fueloline guzzler tax, way to the EPA-projected 23 mpg toll road and 15 mpg town it'll supply. This is up from 22 mpg toll road and 14 mpg town for the 2010 version.
The five.4-liter V-eight achieves eighty percentage of its torque among 1,750 and 6,250 rpm, giving the automobile a better degree of overall performance experience. A large two-row intercooler for the supercharger machine has forty percentage extra cooling capacity, supporting to make electricity extra steady in better ambient conditions.
Fuel economic system profits come from the brand new 102-pound-lighter aluminum-block engine, EPAS and specified aerodynamic adjustments to the bottom of the car.
Dramatic overall performance upgrades
New for 2011 is an SVT Performance Package for fans who need even extra overall performance out in their Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 for racetrack-geared up using dynamics. Complete with all-new Goodyear Eagle® F1 SuperCar G: 2 tires that SVT engineers labored without delay with Goodyear to develop, the automobile is prepared to race. The tires provide remarkable dry traction and specific dealing with, whole with a race-stimulated excessive-overall performance tread compound.
The optionally available package deal additionally gives particular styling, lighter wheels, a better rear axle ratio and stiffer springs, and it's far to be had on each the convertible and coupe. Data display the 2011 coupe with the SVT Performance Package is 3.zero seconds quicker in line with lap than the 2010 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 on a 2.3-mile check track.
Carried over from 2010, the 2011 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 functions AdvanceTrac®, Ford's balance manage machine with numerous alternatives for overall performance. Calibration of the machine for the 2011 Shelby has been uniquely tailor-made to every car configuration (base or optionally available) to optimize the overall performance.
SVT has labored very difficult to make EPAS higher than the outgoing hydraulic steerage machine. The addition of EPAS makes for a dramatic contribution to Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 using dynamics, with advanced torque build-up and avenue experience that gives you faster and extra specific steerage, elevated attempt at the racetrack or winding roads, and decreased attempt in low-pace parking maneuvers.
Slotted brake dirt shields have been brought to enhance brake cooling and dealing with, and a brand new pedal field improves take hold of and pedal efforts even extra. A reduced trip peak of eleven millimeters in the front and eight millimeters on the rear presents a sportier mind-set and advanced dealing with.
More engine sound, much less avenue noise
For 2011, Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 additionally blessings from NVH (noise, vibration and harshness) enhancements. Overall avenue noise is decreased with the aid of using 20 percentage as opposed to the 2010 Shelby. Actions undertaken to obtain this development encompass extra sound-deadening cloth on both aspect of the tool panel, extra sound absorption in the back of indoors trim panels, and a rear wheel arch liner to lessen noise on gravel or moist surfaces - all ensuing withinside the driving force listening to extra exhaust and engine sound and much less avenue and air noise.
The Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Convertible functions stronger structural rigidity, with lateral stiffness advanced with the aid of using 12 percentage as opposed to the 2010 version. The V-brace has been stiffened with the aid of using including gussets. The secondary crossmember additionally has been stiffened, even as a the front Z-brace has been brought, connecting number one and secondary crossmembers. A-pillar stiffening foam has been brought to growth rigidity.
The structural enhancements to the convertible gave SVT the possibility to be extra sport-orientated withinside the chassis tuning, with out buying and selling comfort. Along with the chassis and structural enhancements, the 2011 version additionally gets fashionable 19-inch aluminum wheels.
"One of the most important adjustments for this Shelby is that the convertible acts and appears like a coupe," stated Jamal Hameedi, SVT leader nameplate engineer. "Before, that they'd a totally distinct character, and the convertible is taking a huge step withinside the sportiness and dealing with precision location, with out degrading the trip."
GT500 receives a brand new exhaust for 2011, roaring with a fair extra competitive sound than the 2010 version. The 2.75-inch exhaust with all-new tuning helped to supply the extra 10 horsepower.
Added comfort content
New for 2011 is an optionally available glass roof, offering clients with a much less high-priced alternative than a convertible and with out compromising the coupe's versatility, headroom or climate-managed environment.
The specifically formulated glass additionally protects indoors cloth cloth from sun radiation deterioration and discoloration with the aid of using decreasing sun mild transmittance. To assist enhance acoustics and indoors quietness, the glass functions a layer of vinyl that reduces noise, vibration and harshness.
Other new comfort technology encompass:
- Standard HID (excessive-depth discharge) headlamps
- MyKey™ programmable car key
- Integrated spotter mirror
- Fold-down rear headrests
"Whether you are trying to take the GT500 out at the streets or have a few amusing on the track," Capito says, "this vehicle will fulfill the maximum discriminating overall performance using fans."
