Ford applies to trademark ‘Megazilla’ identify for crate engine

On February 1, 2011 Checkers Drive-In Eating places utilized for to trademark the time period “Megazilla.” The appliance is stay, however we will not discover report of the U.S. burger chain serving such a monstrosity. Equally, in 2020, Ford Efficiency teased a crate engine known as Megazilla towards the tip of 2020, the identical yr the automaker put its 7.3-liter Godzilla V8 into the Tremendous Obligation lineup. Everybody figured Ford needed to proceed giving its V8 inside combustion engines a correct send-off because the world heads to electrification, and that the automaker additionally needed to intention a kind of parting photographs at Mopar’s 1,000-horsepower, 950 pound-foot Hellephant V8 crate engine. However similar to that Checkers burger, we heard nothing about it. Till now. CarBuzz found Ford utilized to order the Megazilla identify in 4 nations, with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Workplace, the Canadian Mental Property Workplace (CIPO), the Australian Mental Property workplace (AIP) and the Mental Property Workplace of New Zealand (IPONZ).

The naturally aspirated Godzilla makes 430 horsepower and 475 pound-feet of torque. Ford Efficiency product supervisor Mike Goodwin stated, in the one feedback we’ve thus far concerning the new engine, “We’re additionally engaged on a super-secret challenge referred to as the Megazilla. It’ll enhance the facility output from the 430 horsepower that comes from the manufacturing crate engine.” Betting appears cut up on whether or not that bonus oomph will come from transforming the NA engine or bolting on turbo- or supercharged compelled induction. Primarily based on tuner outcomes over the previous two years, any avenue may yield large features. The identical summer time Godzilla got here out, former Ford Efficiency honcho Brian Wolfe coaxed 789 horsepower and 558 pound-feet of torque earlier than including generators or screws. The identical month Godwin broached Megazilla, Merkel Racing Engines created a customized twin-snail setup with twin intercoolers and greater injectors, resulting in a dyno graph exhibiting 1,114 hp and 1,037 lb-ft. Ford Authority reported the automaker will take the turbocharged route. To not be forgotten, nonetheless, Willis Efficiency Enterprises caught on the three.0-liter Whipple supercharger made only for this utility. Combining that with some supplemental elements like new heads, cam and lifters, WPE hit 1,450 hp and 1,030 pound-feet. 

So the engine is prepared for 4 figures in each output columns if Ford actually needs its megafauna to shade the demon pachyderm. As for the place Megazilla may go, effectively, “Wherever” is the reply a tuner would give, they usually’d be appropriate. However the trademark filings in Australia and New Zealand are attention-grabbing. Ford Efficiency engineers had been testing a Godzilla engine lurking underneath a hood bulge on a Mustang prototype, that Mustang conveniently and coincidentally “simply mendacity round” the Ford store. Ford is sending the F-150 to the house of the late, nice Steve Irwin by the tip of subsequent yr, however New Zealand does not seem like on the listing but; it solely will get the Raptor. Each nations, nonetheless, are large followers of the Mustang (relative to their inhabitants sizes), and neither nation’s fanatics would miss the chance to hoon in a giant-lizard-powered horse.    

As for after we’ll discover out what’s actually happening, the SEMA present runs from November 1-4 this yr, an excellent place for energy to point out itself.

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