Cars don't get into the 700 club—with factory warranties, at least—until a ton of serious engineering happens. Here are a dozen highlights of those efforts.
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The blower's 2.7-liter displacement is more than half that of the engine! It nestles as deep as possible in the valley of the vee, with the screws on the bottom pushing air up into the intercooler and then back down into the cylinders. No word yet on horsepower consumption of the supercharger, but suffice to say the cylinders are likely producing upward of 1,000 ponies in order to net out 700-plus at the crank.
The supercharger hogs all the room where the direct-injection fuel rail would go. An engine-tuning simplifier—not sending it to Europe, where getting an exhaust particulate filter to pass durability requirements would have been problematic.
Yes Virginia, therewillbe a crate engine offered. But not for a little while because work on that variant can't begin until final certification of the production version is completed later this year. The Ford Performance Parts catalogue could begin offering other parts, however, like the stronger bolts and block for drag racing use.
