{"id":27388,"date":"2016-05-19T16:32:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T23:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=27388"},"modified":"2016-12-05T16:44:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T00:44:52","slug":"ford-gt-ecoboost-v6-may-be-offered-as-crate-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/ford-gt-ecoboost-v6-may-be-offered-as-crate-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford GT EcoBoost V6 May Be Offered as Crate Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/fordecoboost-1000x667.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"27389\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/ford-gt-ecoboost-v6-may-be-offered-as-crate-engine\/fordecoboost-1000x667\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/fordecoboost-1000x667-e1463700752669.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,385\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"fordecoboost-1000&amp;#215;667\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/fordecoboost-1000x667-e1463700752669-300x180.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/fordecoboost-1000x667-e1463700752669.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-27389 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/fordecoboost-1000x667.jpg\" alt=\"fordecoboost-1000x667\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay, so maybe you won&#8217;t be able to get your hands on a new Ford GT but now you might be able to get its engine.\u00a0Director of Ford Performance Dave Pericak hinted at the idea of Ford supplying its 3.5-liter twin-turbocharged EcoBoost for other racing applications. Pericak also noted that\u00a0s &#8220;no reason&#8221; the boosted V-6 wouldn&#8217;t end up &#8220;powering a low-volume sports or supercar built by a small firm.&#8221; Although there are no specific horse power numbers yet, it is estimated that it should be somewhere around 600+hp. Maybe perfect for that one-off Ford Maverick build you&#8217;ve been thinking of.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qcC4WsMAZ34\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Okay, so maybe you won&#8217;t be able to get your hands on a new Ford GT but now you might be able to get its engine.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":27389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3699,3713,543],"tags":[151,1796,2316,1803,645,1593],"class_list":["post-27388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-racing","category-road-racing","category-sports-car-racing","tag-crate-engine","tag-ecoboost","tag-ford-gt","tag-ford-performance","tag-lemans","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/fordecoboost-1000x667-e1463700752669.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-77K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27390,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27388\/revisions\/27390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}