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"Yes, the Ford Predator engine is considered part of the Coyote engine family. Think of the Predator as a "cousin" or "evolution" of the Coyote, focused on extreme performance."
"Yes, Ford says the Predator engine is a variant of the Coyote engine"
Ya, but a Dark Horse uses the rods from the Predator and other parts from other motors. Because it is all the same architecture.
The fact you can bolt the different heads to different blocks shows they are compatible because they are coyote-based engines. Saying a 4.6L 4v and Coyote is the same is misleading. Yes, they are both Ford Modular motors. But they do not share the same architecture. You can't bolt parts onto each other from those two motors.
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"Yes, the Ford Predator engine is considered part of the Coyote engine family. The Predator is a "cousin" or "evolution" of the Coyote."
"Yes, the Predator engine is a variant of the Coyote engine"
No one has claimed it is a stock coyote running 6's. It is a built motor that still A LOT of coyote-based parts sourced from Ford. The car owner and engine builder have been very open about what it is. I get the term Coyote gets used a lot. Which isn't wrong. It's just not specific. If you can get the internet to change their phrasing to a "Coyote-based" record, that is fine. lol
Look at it as if you were naming it scientifically. Like a plant or animal. If someone pointed at a tiger and said "Damn, that is a big cat!" are you going to say they are wrong because they didn't call it a Panthera tigris? I doubt it. lol
Ford engine / animal (Tiger)
Domain: Transportation / Eukarya
Kingdom: Ford / nimalia
Phylum: Engine / Chordata
Class: V8 / Mammalia
Order: Modular / Carnivora
Family: Coyote / Felidae (cats)
Genus: Supercharged / Panthera (big cats)
Species: Predator / Panthera tigris (tiger)
Saying it's a "Coyote" isn't any different. It is a family name. As I said before, those are all names of engine development programs that fall under the Coyote architecture. If people called it a "Coyote-based" motor, I think adds some leeway and is acceptable.
I know the Predator is an upgraded version of the Coyote block, but calling it a coyote versus Predator is my issue. No Coyote equipped vehicle has that block, just the GT500, which nobody would ever say they have a Coyote, because its incorrect. Again, its the masses just blanket labeling a record. To be honest, i believe MMR holds the records for an actual sleeved coyote block block. Putting a different block in, takes away from it. At that point, you could run a billet block, because its the same architect as the Coyote block if we are not sticking to what it is. just like all the early mod motor stuff from the 2V-3V-4V, while all of it was different, it all could be swapped together and workd, but depending on what block, heads you had, power was gonna be different and it was a different engine. A Teksid was a very stout block, compared to a early WAP aluminum, but claiming a WAP block record using a Teksid would get a lot of people pissed.