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Originally Posted by jimbobiggens
You know that engineer was pulling your leg about that computer not being able to keep up, right?
The 1987 5.0 Mustang GT was advertised as having an ECU that was more powerful than the computer used to go to the moon in 1969. The EEC-IV, as it was called, is capable of performing a million calculations a second while running at a measly (by today's standards) 15mhz. This 22 year old EEC-IV was used in Formula 1 at the time. High rpm's were not a problem.
And that ECU is an antique by today's standards.
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Actually, nobody pulled my leg. I'm not the one who asked the question, nor the one who answered it. Nor am I defending the explanation.
The reason I asked is because the owner of the Boss 302 I was referencing is also a mechanical engineer, and he seemed convinced by the explanation the Ford engineer he spoke with. And he's skeptical by nature, more so than me.
As for myself, being in the software space, naturally I was skeptical about this explanation, but I'm not going to question a Ford engineer about their own engine or related hardware when I know next to nothing about the car. Which is why I asked see5 if the car has 100% stock ECU hardware with a tune or if there's more to the story. Wouldn't be unheard of for the car to be running a standalone ECU.