Serviced the car, early oil & filter change, first after break in, tire rotation. Getting ready for a twisty mountain road run. While speaking to the lead, who drives a 350. He mentions we might need to stop for a short, short.
Come to find out the carrier oil over heats. Reading some, this is not an unknown. At about 340 a warning appears, if ignored the car will go into a limp mode. Pretty cool it does that.
Me, want to avoid both pulling over or limp mode. So I wrapped the tail pipes, that create a heat envelope around the carrier.
Will see how it goes…. Going to be a hoot if the GT PP2 out runs the 350’s due to carrier oil over heat.
Tail of the Dragon?
Tail of the dragon gets a lot of press, comes up often for sure. The bikers like it and run off the mountain often.
Takes too long to get there, and generally crowded, we will go to Six Gap, North GA. It has some good straights to stretch the legs, up to 3 digits I’m told. I like both twisty and flat out running.
I’ve had the car to 130 with some left over. The 350’s red line is 8100, mine 7100, the flat plane motor being the difference.
Now we need the rain to stop to get busy.
A known engineering flaw that Ford has not fixed? Shocking to say the least. Have fun on your run.
Who knows, put any street/consumer car thru its paces, weaknesses will be found.
I will say this, there is more older American iron on the streets then the foreign shit. Even with flaws the US builds a better car.
