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Ford has been using the EcoBoost engine for a long time now, and it's become one of the automaker's ubiquitous power units.
While Ford hasn't ... Of course, a V8 isn't mandatory -- it will apparently work with any longitudinally mounted internal combustion engine -- but the fact that the patent application sketches ...
The Ford Voodoo V8 is ... intake runners to keep the engine happy. The engine was eventually replaced in the Taurus SHO with a naturally aspirated 3.4-liter V8 in 1995. While the Voodoo V8 ...
The CD6 vehicle architecture of the 2020 Ford ... part of the powertrain is an EcoBoost-type engine. This gets us to patent number US 20190023115A1, published on January 24th, 2019. The diagram of ...
Though it shared parts ... The engine was also used in the one-off Ford SHO Ranger. One of the biggest engines ever produced by Ford, the 8.8-liter 534 cubic inch Super Duty V8 was developed ...
More importantly, Ford boasted that the engine would ... the SHO achieved an estimated 20 miles per gallon. For comparison, a 2010 AWD Dodge Charger RT with a 5.7-liter V8 that produced 368 ...
It's far less common to hear about brands like Chevy, Toyota, or Subaru building engines that are only intended for a single model. So the Ford Taurus ... Cosworth/Yamaha SHO V8 engine, and ...
Ford still brought out a new SHO and gave it a Yamaha engine. Except, instead of going with a V6, Ford chose to shove a 3.4-liter V8 under the hood. Of a front-wheel-drive family sedan.
Ford was granted a patent this week ... hood of the Mustang Hybrid coming next year. The patent, first spotted by Autoguide, depicts a V8 engine with two electric motors mounted to the sides ...
Ford has filed an interesting ... First noticed by Autoguide, the patent for a “twin motor drive system for [a] hybrid electric vehicle” features an undisclosed V8 engine and two electric ...
At Delaware-based Stamoulis & Weinblatt, they have discovered a recently-filed application from Ford for a new V8 engine. Interestingly, the patent describes a pushrod, 4-valve per cylinder unit ...
Here’s another engine problem: Media reports and online complaints at www.v8sho.com document more than 200 cases of camshaft failures in Ford Taurus SHO 3.4-liter V8 engines, but owners of the ...