New engine family

[jaybee]

Is this a new direction from Ford...a pushrod V8! In fact, the first production pushrod V8 from Ford in over 20 years.

The new 7.3L Ford gas engine is decidedly not a performance car engine...but it could be. People have already built this thing out to almost 600hp naturally aspirated, over 700hp supercharged. It weighs...a bunch.

But it's 6" narrower than a Coyote engine. Give it some heads that can breathe to 7,000rpm along with optimized intake and you could make incredible power in a package which would be much easier to package. Perhaps use the same architecture in a low deck block which doesn't have the capacity to go all the way out to 500 cubic inches. Suddenly you have small block/big block variants which could share a lot of parts, and a shorter deck height combined with an aluminum block could put the weight very similar to the Coyote.

I think the Ford OHC engines have done very well. A properly hopped up Mustang will flatten your eyeballs and they'll last 200,000 miles easy. They're also expensive to manufacture, expensive to hot rod, and take up a ton of space. Given the success GM and Chrysler have had with pushrod V8s of modern architecture, could Ford be rethinking their approach to engine architecture?

Someone is already building one in a Fox Body Mustang.  https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/car-technology/a30753008/fords-73-liter-v-8-can-make-600-naturally-aspirated-horsepower-with-basic-mods/

[Crosley.In.AZ]

yea, the new gasoline   7.3 V8 is in motor homes already.  Will be interesting on how that works out. Replaces the ol V-10 engine

As I remember the crate 7.3 engine is about 8100.00 dolllars