Indeed. I can recommend it.

I leave the petrolhead talk to you.

Nah, I'm just messin' with ya.

The Ford Modular engine was and probably still is one the biggest piece of crap motors ever made. It took Ford what? Like almost 10 years to finally get top end power and low end torque out of it. The motor is stupid fricking huge and heavy.

What's amazing is that it actually isn't that heavy, and they've done a decent job with the additional frictional loss of a 4-cam setup (frequently overlooked on V8s). The thing is, it is friggin huge. I mean, idiotically, stoooooopidly huge. The first time I saw a 4-cam mod motor up close (in a Terminator), I was, like "What the hell is that? A washing machine? A refrigerator?" I was literally stunned.

Say what you will about the "archaic" LS/LT series engines, but they are very small and efficient. And GM doesn't usually forget shit like oil coolers and trans coolers and diff coolers you need for getting around a track.

The new GT350 is intriguing, but the low price makes me wonder if Ford (a) left something critical off of it (as in, you need the R version if you're really gonna track it), or (b) knows something about the competition that really makes them think they screwed the dog, or (c) it really is more of a good looker than a track numbers machine. We'll see. In any case, I'm not against lower prices on halo cars--hopefully it will encourage the competition not to stick it to us car-crazy guys as much.

Haha. I'd rather put an LS motor into a old Mustang than a Modular. GM took the right approach evolving from the Chevy small black. (Ford is a strange company - Modular seemed like an overly complex half-baked project for so long, and they still haven't got the efficiency they wanted.) Heck, people are shoving LS motors into FR-S/BRZs: