Ford powers up for pickup bragging rights

Aug 05, 2010 9 Replies

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C. E. White 15 years ago

Ford powers up for pickup bragging rights August 5, 2010 - 11:21 am ET

Kudos to Ford Motor Co. - those early buyers won't be penalized. Ford announced this week that everyone who purchased a diesel-powered 2011 Super Duty truck this year is being offered a free software upgrade that will boost engine performance.

The 2011 truck and the new diesel engine went on sale in April. About 35,000 trucks are eligible for the upgrade.

Ford said a software change at the dealership will give the engine a boost in torque -- 65 pounds-feet -- and another 10 hp. The end result will give Ford's new 6.7-liter turbocharged V-8 a whopping 800 pounds-feet of torque and 400 hp. Ford says it will take just 30 minutes at the dealership to make the software change.

Beginning this week, diesel-powered Super Dutys coming off the assembly line will receive those same enhancements.

This is all about bragging rights, of course. Which pickup has payload and towing leadership? Ford says its F-350 is stronger than the 2011 Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra 3500 models. Those vehicles offer a re-engineered turbocharged 6.6-liter V-8, which has a dramatic increase in horsepower and torque over the 2010 engine. GM's Duramax diesel puts out 765 pounds feet of torque and 397 hp.

Kudos go to Ford for taking care of its early 2011 Super Duty customers. The automaker could have easily ignored those buyers and said, "Sorry, guys."

Instead, the guys and gals who drive those Fords will be bragging at the town bar, construction site or Farm and Fleet about the free, unexpected boost in torque and horsepower.

And, 35,000 -- that's a lot of surprised and happy Super Duty drivers singing the praises of Ford!

You can reach Rick Kranz at snipped-for-privacy@crain.com

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AZ Nomad 15 years ago

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The average redneck compensating for a small penis gotta have the biggest truck imaginable doesn't use it for anything but conspicuous consumption and to haul his fat ass around for his daily commute. The extra 10HP won't make the slightest difference.

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Picasso 15 years ago

The sad part is most of these aren't at the construction site, a farm, or a fleet whatever that means...

They are at the mall, the grocery store, or double or quadruple parked downtown shopping.

I got a couple doughhead friends that think its cool to drive a diesel... yet they paid $20k more for their truck, and end up spending 6 times what i do in service, and hands down an injector fails or they're in at the dealer for some other F-Diesel related screw up.

God knows what the Urea tanks are going to bring... i say more F-ups in the F-x50

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chuckcar 15 years ago

"C. E. White" wrote in news:i3f7qv$abc$ snipped-for-privacy@news.eternal-september.org:

Does anyone here know exactly what model truck they got the engine for the Ford GT from?

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Tegger 15 years ago

AZ Nomad wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@ip70-176-155-130.ph.ph.cox.net:

So what? America is (or was) about what you /wanted/, not about what somebody thought you /should/ want. It was called "freedom", and it's been slowly disappearing since about 1914.

I drive a little Japmobile with a sewing-machine engine. And I like it that way. But should I use my complacency to sneer at those who like things bigger? Maybe one day I'll want something big and powerful for myself. I'd like to know that--should that day come--nobody will interfere with my right to be let alone to avail myself of that desire.

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Jim Warman 15 years ago

Welllll... they actually didn't. The 5.4 in the GT is an aluminum block engine and, AFAIK, shares little more than bore and stroke with either the

5.4 2V or 5.4 3V (both of these being cast iron blocks. The aluminum 4V heads are unique to the GT.

The GT uses a belt driven, externally mounted oil pump... the oil filter is also unique to the GT.

Sources for this information are the Ford factory workshop manuals and the new model training course for the 2005 Ford GT.

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chuckcar 15 years ago

"Jim Warman" wrote in news:zUI6o.10732$Z6.5311@edtnps82:

What do you know, a top poster that actually replied something useful. Thanks for that. The only question I'd have if this has changed during the life of the Ford GT. Specifically when it first came on the market.

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N8N 15 years ago

As the proud-ish owner of a Ford pickemup truck with three hundred cubic inches of raging power, I can say with confidence that YES I would certainly like an extra 10 HP :)

On the upside, it runs and it's paid for.

nate

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jim beam 15 years ago

sure ed, you don't take the detroit dollar - you're just a farmer!

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Mike 15 years ago

Seems it is always the guys that can not afford, what someone can, that are the first to talk about someone's else's equipment? LOL

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