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4x4ord's avatar
4x4ord
Explorer III
Jul 09, 2016

Care to guess the new Powerstroke HP and torque rating?

I'm guessing Ford will announce the power and torque rating for the 2017 Powerstroke sometime soon. Just for fun, anyone want to post their guess as to what the new rating will be? I was thinking 475 ...
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Huntindog's avatar
Huntindog
Explorer
Jul 10, 2016
shepstone wrote:
Flashman wrote:
gmcsmoke wrote:
claiming and achieving are too vastly different things, especially for ford.


True that.

Show me any of the makers that doesn't play the numbers game...
GM.
Back in 2010 when Ford and GM were releasing their numbers. GM came out with 397 HP and 765 TQ. That exceeded what Ford had released, and they already had trucks on the road. Ford quickly retrenched with a nice round 400HP 800TQ, even offering a reflash to those the had already bought.
I saw a interview with some of the GM engineers, They were asked why didn't GM just make their Dmax ratings the same as Fords... The answer "We have extensivly tested the Dmax and that is what the numbers came in at. We are confident and comfortable with these numbers."

The Dmax then went on a tear in test after test easily beating the higher rated Ford PSD.

Then the truth about the ratings slowly came out.
GM was the only one that had their power numbers tested to SAE standards....

As has been said, claiming and achieving are two different things.

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