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Glad its a help. 10-4 on water injection. I am sorry, I don't have the detail intake temp data for you. Scott

Ed, I think it would be great and seems like it should fit, but we would have to look at vibration modes and make sure the flat plane crank modes don't line up with other chassis, subsystem and part modes. The wrong modes lining up could cause early failures. Do you know of a good donor car for...

Hi Tony, Leveraging the FGT work, especially powertrain was SVT's intent, but I do not have first hand knowledge of the level of transfer to the GT500. I was not involved on the project and did not keep tabs on it. Mark McGowan may know. Scott

Thanks AJB, Indy and Vince. For sure there were multiple good reasons for choosing the FGT engine vs alternatives including what is noted by Xcentric and Nota4re. Yes, lots of experience with the supercharged engines and little with turbo charging at Ford North America, at the time. Well...

The following is intended to give some background on my comments regarding the FGT air temperature sensitivity in the OEM tire article. I have tried not to get too technical here, but show some fundamentals on the differences causing the FGT to be more weather sensitive than turbocharged (or...

Yes, as Indy noted, we went deep into the alphabet a second time...at both ends of the car. That is a lot of tires. Scott

I will work to answer this coming weekend. I meant S/C versus naturally aspirated, but S/C's also tend to be more sensitive to ambient air temp than turbo charged engines as well. Will try to write a balance of practical and theory. And yes, a few doing big mods to their engines have discussed...

Hey All, glad the article was useful/informative and hopefully interesting. Thank you for the kudos. Scott

I believe Ford said the exterior/body was 95% production ready. The FGT was very similar in exterior readiness when Ford said "go" and yet the roof had to go up 2" and the windows wouldn't roll down. We had to engineer everything under the skin and modify the exterior as little as possible...

GT-E/GTE is a good suggestion, but DBK's vote for PHX seems most appropriate (project name, simple and differentiated) for the car...especially since it is a concept at this point. Just my 2 cents.

Happy Birthday, Dave!

Hey All, thank you much for the well wishes! It was a great day working to help IndyCars go faster. And got to have dinner with Bill (Indy GT) and Jennifer the night before. I enjoy participating in this Forum and the FGT with you all at the Rallys. Vegas was awesome! Take Care, Scott

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Yes, we were way off the ramp schedule and 9 units/day. For sure value preservation and replacement part availability are very valid concerns. I am just noting an apparent large downside to these concerns and heavy focus in which any replacement part issues seem more serious. It was indeed...

Production Numbers and Sales DBK and others are correct on what happened at the end regarding the perception of "slow sales" at the end. About half of the cars were allocated to dealers based on a points system (volume, customer satisfaction, etc) and the rest by a lottery. The allocation...

No the stock shock is sealed. It appears the leaking shocks heavily happen on lower mileage cars. I believe it happens when the car sits for long periods and the shaft seal dries out and then the next time it is driven damages the seal. Scott

Wishing Michelle a quick and complete recovery! Scott and Angela

Hey Ralphie, thank you much for the endorsement - a couple of clarifications. I hate to correct you, but the laser etching of my logo on your shocks is production and there is no concern. All production sets have the same logo. I originally had a set with a machined in logo that looked awesome...

Andy, Glad they are working well. Understood on going over your install, adjustments and alignment. No problem. We (Kendall and me) will work with you to schedule the first slot. Scott

Thank you much Ralphie and All. Great win and performance for Andretti Autosport and Honda Racing HPD. It was great to be part of it. As announced last Fall, we are supporting Honda IndyCar chassis development (which involves working with Tom and his guys). Right now focused with Andretti. One...