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12-28-2010, 05:41 PM
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After surviving some of the most heinous abuse that the engineers at Ford (http://www.autoblog.com/make/ford) cold dream up, the same 3.5-liter Ecoboost (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/ecoboost) V6 engine that pulled logs, raced in Baja and towed 11,300 pounds for 24 hours straight will be dissected in front of the crowds at this year's Detroit Auto Show (http://www.autoblog.com/category/detroit-auto-show/). The stunt gets started on January 15 at 11 a.m., and Ford is hoping to be able to show off exactly how well its new V6 workhorse held up against the equivalent of 160,000 miles of torture.
Ford has come out with a bare-knuckle advertising campaign to prove that it's smaller-displacement, turbocharged engine can not only dish out equivalent power while using less fuel, but that it can stand up to the kind of work that pickup trucks are meant to endure. After wrapping up competition in the Baja 1000 (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/baja), Ford pulled its Ecoboost engine to perform dyno tests, and found that even after all of the beatings, the lump still churned out the same 365 horsepower and 420 pound-feet of torque that it left the factory with. Not too shabby. Stop by the Ford display at the 2011 Detroit Motor Show to check out the dissection, and hit the jump (http://www.autoblog.com/2010/12/28/ford-showcasing-live-teardown-of-f-150-ecoboost-engine-during-de/#continued) to see the press release.
[Source: Ford]Continue reading Ford showcasing live teardown of F-150 EcoBoost engine during Detroit Auto Show (http://www.autoblog.com/2010/12/28/ford-showcasing-live-teardown-of-f-150-ecoboost-engine-during-de/)
Ford showcasing live teardown of F-150 EcoBoost engine during Detroit Auto Show (http://www.autoblog.com/2010/12/28/ford-showcasing-live-teardown-of-f-150-ecoboost-engine-during-de/) originally appeared on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com) on Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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After surviving some of the most heinous abuse that the engineers at Ford (http://www.autoblog.com/make/ford) cold dream up, the same 3.5-liter Ecoboost (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/ecoboost) V6 engine that pulled logs, raced in Baja and towed 11,300 pounds for 24 hours straight will be dissected in front of the crowds at this year's Detroit Auto Show (http://www.autoblog.com/category/detroit-auto-show/). The stunt gets started on January 15 at 11 a.m., and Ford is hoping to be able to show off exactly how well its new V6 workhorse held up against the equivalent of 160,000 miles of torture.
Ford has come out with a bare-knuckle advertising campaign to prove that it's smaller-displacement, turbocharged engine can not only dish out equivalent power while using less fuel, but that it can stand up to the kind of work that pickup trucks are meant to endure. After wrapping up competition in the Baja 1000 (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/baja), Ford pulled its Ecoboost engine to perform dyno tests, and found that even after all of the beatings, the lump still churned out the same 365 horsepower and 420 pound-feet of torque that it left the factory with. Not too shabby. Stop by the Ford display at the 2011 Detroit Motor Show to check out the dissection, and hit the jump (http://www.autoblog.com/2010/12/28/ford-showcasing-live-teardown-of-f-150-ecoboost-engine-during-de/#continued) to see the press release.
[Source: Ford]Continue reading Ford showcasing live teardown of F-150 EcoBoost engine during Detroit Auto Show (http://www.autoblog.com/2010/12/28/ford-showcasing-live-teardown-of-f-150-ecoboost-engine-during-de/)
Ford showcasing live teardown of F-150 EcoBoost engine during Detroit Auto Show (http://www.autoblog.com/2010/12/28/ford-showcasing-live-teardown-of-f-150-ecoboost-engine-during-de/) originally appeared on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com) on Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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