Supercomputers and 3D Printing Are Secrets to All-New Shelby GT500 High Performance

[Parkway Ford Lincoln SVT]

Short blurb on the Ford Media site today about the aero and cooling systems developed for the new GT500 coming for 2020 model year, some interesting stuff:

https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2019/03/13/mustang-shelby-gt500-supercomputers-3d-printing.html


https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2019/03/13/mustang-shelby-gt500-supercomputers-3d-printing/jcr:content/image.img.881.495.jpg/1552485810312.jpg

[RedSN]

Very neat! Nice to see Ford putting so much design into aerodynamics. ...even tho there is 700+ HP under the hood. (see sig)


At wide-open throttle, the cooling system needs to extract up to 230 kilowatts of heat energy, enough to heat a dozen homes. The massive front brakes reject another 100 kilowatts of heat at maximum braking
Never seen kW used to describe heat energy, but apparently it's equal to 3400 BTU/hr.
So the GT500 cooling system can dissipate 780,000 BTU/hr !

Remind me not to follow GT500's at the track on a hot day.