Originally Posted By: Cujet
Plus, as everybody knows, turbo's can be easily modified to produce far more HP. Hope the core engine is tough enough to support serious mods.
The tuning capacity of the engine depends on how much head room was left from the factory. One really telling statistic is the specific output of the engine (HP per liter). If the EB Mustang gets 300HP or more from factory, that's at at least 130HP per liter of displacement. That's a lot, so I suspect the tuning potential is more limited compared to say early BMW 3.0L turbo engine or VW's 1.8T engines, which originally came with like 100HP per liter of displacement. It seems to me that Ford has taken a great pain to overboost the 2.3L EB to make sure it has nominally more power than the 3.7L V6 at least on paper.
Here is another odd fact: in Lincoln's product line-up, the MKS with 2.0L Ecoboost engine is marketed as the base engine, while the 3.7L V6 is the "premium" engine. So clearly even Ford views the 3.7L V6 as a better engine than 2.0L Ecoboost. The 2.3L EB probably has roughly as much, or maybe a little bit more power than the V6, and you probably need to put premium fuel into EB to get the rated output.