DoubleONegative
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300bhp/ton said:high engine speeds hav little bearing on the 'tune'. It will concern actual physical components, such as the valve train. Cam dependant but running a stock setup you will be likely to see valve float at too higher rpms. Also the bottom end may not like high rpms due to the inertia involved.
Your car won't run any worse runnning high, but it will probably go BANG in spectacular fashion with little or no warning.
I don't know what the limiting factor is for the 4.6 modular unit, but Ford put a rev limit on it for a reason. And that reason will undoubtable be reliability related, adding a blower and then exceeding that limit without any futher mods is a recipe for disaster.
Your right engine speeds hav little bearing on the "tune" however, at high RPMs the inertial load on the rods is imense and even a tiny bit of detonation will usually result in a windowed block at high RPMs.
The weak point in in all 4.6 modulars (except the 03/04 Cobra) is the rods. I am not sure if the 05 Stang has a forged crank like the 96-01 Cobras but the powdered metal cracked cap rods are usually the first thing to fail under boost
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