This is a 1981 "Bullnose" Ford Bronco that has been rebuilt into a vehicle with a 7.3 liter Ford Godzilla V8 up front turning out 420 bhp – that's 45 bhp
Love this thing but 420HP out of a modern 7.3L engine is weak sauce. The GM 5.3L truck motors make nearly that much power stock. The HP rating shouldn’t be the highlight of this build.
Stock they didn’t, but this thing is far from stock and older V8 motors could easily be woken up with heads, intake, and headers. It’s definitely a cool swap but it seems like they wasted a ton of potential. I suppose this does give the new owner something to work on which might be ideal depending on the buyer.
Edit: not even really a waste of potential, more that it’s not really impressive when you have smaller engines out there coming with 500, 600, 700HP from the factory via superchargers and what not.
Love this thing but 420HP out of a modern 7.3L engine is weak sauce. The GM 5.3L truck motors make nearly that much power stock. The HP rating shouldn’t be the highlight of this build.
Source?
This Godzilla: 420hp/475tq
2023 Chevy 6.2: 420/450
2019 Chevy 5.3: 355/383
Source: CarandDriver
It is a highlight because older cars didn’t make HP like today’s engines do. So getting an older car with modern car horsepower is a big deal.
Stock they didn’t, but this thing is far from stock and older V8 motors could easily be woken up with heads, intake, and headers. It’s definitely a cool swap but it seems like they wasted a ton of potential. I suppose this does give the new owner something to work on which might be ideal depending on the buyer.
Edit: not even really a waste of potential, more that it’s not really impressive when you have smaller engines out there coming with 500, 600, 700HP from the factory via superchargers and what not.
You’d be surprised what boost can do. The link isn’t loading for me, but I’d imagine that’s an NA motor. Otherwise, yeesh
Yeah it’s NA, its the bigger gas engine option in current model year F-350s.