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Originally Posted by sammyg2
The only thing on the original GT-40 made by ford was maybe the little blue emblem, but at least is said ford on it.
Everyone talks about how ford beat ferrari but all ford did was write the checks.
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IIRC, Ford also did the extensive dyno work on the motors. They stuck dozens of them on dynos, ran the hell out of them till they broke, then redesigned the broken parts.
Lather/rinse/repeat over & over again.
They brute forced the design -- something only a huge deep-pocketed firm could do.