Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 Top Speed Automatic Convertible | Hey you with the goofy smile on your face feel like crying well go visit your local car dealership because they're all full of cars with tincy turbos and boring automatics their sold with some BS marketing spiel that pulling a shift paddles involving emotional experience right here's a big orange middle finger to that load this Mustang has a big naturally aspirated V8 a six-speed that you shift yourself and rear wheel drive like God intended better yet it's also a car you might actually be able to afford something that can't be said about most part of more than 500 horsepower oh did I mention it has more than 500 horsepower yep the 2016 Ford Mustang Shelby gt350 has 526 of them and it needs no marketing department guess who while little is more fun than interrupting one of Commisa's videos.
I want to take a second and tell you about something cool we're doing it's called Motor Trend on demand and you can think of it as Netflix for car freaks in fact if you go there right now you can watch a four-part documentary on Carroll Shelby after this ignition episode of course and now it's time for a physics lesson I promise I'll make this as short and sweet as I possibly can but for those of you who don't care to know the difference between a GT350 engine and say GT's engine where you can go forward couple minutes and yeah thanks guys.
Now that we got rid of those losers take a listen to this very second this is the soundtrack of the muscle car it's a big burly V8 do you hear that burble that's the soundtrack of the hot rod it happens because traditionally V8's don't fire evenly between their two banks and cylinders this coyote V8 fires on the left then the left again then right then left and then right right left right left left right I can't do that quickly enough so I brought in my friend Christian whose hyperactive drummer who just consumed well about a quarter kilo the best Colombian coffee you can get so Christian is going to play us a cross plane coyote V8 firing order in 88 time at say 675 rpm.
Now what would it sound like if the cylinders are firing evenly spaced intervals left right Christian that's what we're talking about here the GT350 V8 fires evenly between its two banks and cylinders left right left right so it sounds more does this because it has a flat plane crank and don't get hung up in this word platform that describe the way the crankshaft looks and you're never going to see the crankshaft in this car thing you need to remember is a flat plane bah fires evenly and that matters why ?
because it makes more power you try 8200 rpm in any other Mustang and you're getting towed back home but this engine is really weird in a good way it kinda no one home below 3500 rpm and then just pulls pulls pulls in fact it pulls so hard there's a shift light reflects up in the windshield when you're getting close to 8 grand I wonder if that is to stop idiots like me from bouncing off the rev monitor more things I love about it magnetic shocks now you may think adaptive stocks are all about giving you a really good ride mode and a really crappy ride mode but that's not the case with magnetic shocks the thing about magnetic shocks they react so quickly change the way the shock is tuned in the middle of a corner like seven times a second or something so as I turn into a corner shocks can actually stiffen momentarily to slow down the body roll it's not going to stop the car from rolling but it's going to slow down diddo when I get on the brakes shocks can stiffen up front and relax in the back or to whatever the engineers want to do just slow down the body controls.
I can't tell from within the driver's seat if this Mustang has any body roll I can't feel it the reason why is probably there but it's just happening slow and its controlled and that's the benefit of magnetic shocks like all that screaming and then you sort of relax sit back no one home down low I'll really love to see the dyno chart on this thing ask and you shall receive thanks to our friends at K&N Engineering well that was loud peak numbers four hundred and sixty-seven horse power to the wheels three hundred and seventy-four pound-feet of torque that's exactly what we expected but peak numbers tell you nothing its the shape of the curve that matters and specifically the torque curve notice how at low engine speeds there's nobody home then suddenly around 3,200 rpm things change this huge jump in torque is exactly what you feel and the driver seat the torque doesn't fall off at high revs either and that of course means tons of horsepower look at the top of that curve now the 8200 rpm redline wasn't a marketing trick this engine effectively makes peak power all the way until the computer shuts it down study up kids because this is what the dyno plot looks like for an engine you'll love to be the snot out of day in and day out the V8 in the GT350 is code name voodoo and it doesn't really sound like a flat plane V8 and doesn't blip the way a flat plane V8 does it sound certainly different than coyote V8 the one of the regular Mustang but this is not a Ferrari V8 and they're a bunch of reasons for it all of which come down to packaging they couldn't get two different intake plenum which will usually do on a flat plane V8 so they had to change the firing order which then caused them down to add more weight to the crankshaft and a lightweight crank shaft is the biggest benefit of a flat plane V8 they shaved five pounds out of the crank shaft it went from 55 down to 50 but the last Ferrari crankshaft.
I weighed was 34 still a long way to go and then there was other packaging problems putting exhausted in so they couldn't get equal lenght runners and that means it's got a little bit of the cross plane V8 verbal and it sounds like a Mustang but it doesn't song like a flat plane V8 you might have some Audi loving friends will point out that nine years ago the RS4 came out with 8200 rpm V8 that made a hundred and one horsepower per litre all these years later were at 8200 rpm 102 horsepower per liter and this expensive flat plain crank thing good point but the rs4 was four wheel drive and didn't do burnouts and burnouts fix everything lets do one and then I'm going to go off again on gearing ready here's first gear once your on redline the gears are really stacked closely on top of each other but first gearing is good for 55 miles an hour and second gear is good for some speed that will get you in big trouble.
Why you have a flat plane crank V8 rest 8200 rpm I get to use it once once I'm going to jail GT350 the Shelby I'm not going to call this the Shelby the Shelby dead it's a GT350 by Ford special vehicle team so sorry rest in peace shelby whatever this thing is a GT350 anyway we tested the gt350 it did 0-60 in 4.1 seconds stop from sixteen hundred and two feet pulled a G on this skid pad did a figure eight in 24-2 this is some serious performance credit for a lot of that goes to the Michelin Pilot super sports 295 in the front 305 in the rear there huge of course there's the madnetic dampers and then this motor as good as this Gt305 is on the street. I think it's going to be that much better on track so pulling on the track at Chuckwalla Valley Raceway Shelby Mustang GT350 with a mad man at the wheel flat clean crank that you've all dreamed about and were in track mode thats why you can't hear me over this exhaust thats only 4500 rpm we got 3700 more to go five hundred and one horsepower 526 I think was the final count rev brake.
Yeah ... We got low gear mustang fun right here kids stops well these mustangs have a tremendous amount of bite especial bite in the break zone it stops real hard as we come off this corner it puts the power down a couple times are you going for the gas and I thought O we're going around here like right there nail it gas gas gas gas flick it in gas gas do it the horrible way he's learning to drive like me a idiot its great enough about the track what you think about the car I think the car is pretty damn cool here watch this that answered Jason I don't think anybody who buys a Chevy GT350 will be disappointed oh God no it delivers it is so nice and so refreshing when a car company says we're gonna do something for the track and nail it its so good nothing to complain about I recommend that you buyers out there in the world not do don't drive R first on track anyway.
Fat plane crank good for over 8 thousand rpm oh man these Michelin's are special tuned by Ford and they did a great job holly cow they stick come right off the corner body motions are well-controlled it's a full on sports car luring exhaust note good balance to the middle of the corner I'm staying in third using the bottom end power band still strong at four thousand I got to be a little bit careful without breaking in the middle of the corner enters the corners very nicely all hooked up that's my favorite part of a car's handling characteristics how well does it put down powerthose of us who drive our cars for the other car companies have lost the plot.
This Mustang is a breath of fresh air to those of us who drive our cars for the sake of driving our cars other car companies have loss their plot the germans for example have fallen completely out of love with driving want proof BMW just made a four wheel drive SUV suddenly its America building the
best drivers cars here's a muscle car that can easily show the worlds sportcars how it's done we've never really tested any cars before at Chuckwalla Valley Raceway so we don't have a basis of comparison for Randy's lap times judging by my friends that drive Mustangs the only car that GT 350 need to out run was a cop car so we brought one along a Dodge Charger Pursuit Randy ran and a couple of laps and it was 15.17 seconds slower I think the lesson here is that if you have a car that's fast enough really good strategy to try to outrun the cops don't ever try to out run me book him Daniel Dude.
