📰 Auto News Ford details how EcoBoost will be more powerful, eco-friendly than competition

[Stink Star]

it's a carburated LS, thats a manifold and carburetor that can be interchanged

id like to see the port job on the GEN1 heads to accept the cathedral port ls intake

 

[Smokinhot]

id like to see the port job on the GEN1 heads to accept the cathedral port ls intake

it's a carburated LS, thats a manifold and carburetor that can be interchanged

the manifold CANNOT be interchange is what Stink is saying. it only bolts onto the LS heads. Have you seen the ports on both the Gen 1 and LS heads?

 

[Diavolo]

It has 4 tires and a steering wheel. 1950's TECHNOLOGY!!!!!

 

[Primalzer]

It has 4 tires and a steering wheel. 1900's TECHNOLOGY!!!!!

fixed , or would that be a tiller

 

[02BlueGT]

Yeah never said that.....Yeah ford had a 16V DOHC in the 1920's. Hell Dusenberg had an 8 cylinder DOHC supercharged motor that made 400 hp, back in 1922. and yeah never said that the DOHC motor is "high-tech" all I said was that the SBC was a 1950's design....designs evolve, because they have to, and that is the current LS line of engines. They are in NO way low tech, all i was stating is that they have the same basic design principles as the original in 1955. That's why the LS7 is considered the Generation V GM V8.

Ecoboost is a new version of fords existing 3.5L, this is not a whole new motor like the 3.0/3.6 that GM released a few years ago that is on my list.... the ecoboost is an evolution..... Just adding forced induction and direct injection is exactly what GM did to the Ecotech...... Where's the stellar leap in technology that I missed....Once again not to take away from the EcoBoost, but it is nothing that hasn't been done before, just a better attempt at marketing this time

 

[EmersonHart13]

Here's How A Ford F-150 EcoBoost Held Up After 200,000 Miles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_CXoPdTBUE

Here's How A Ford F-150 EcoBoost Held Up After 200,000 Miles

Andrew P Collins
31 minutes ago
Filed to: HIGH MILEAGE

(Photo Credit: DanielJaegerFilms/YouTube)
You can still buy a Ford F-150 with a 5.0-liter V8, but the top-shelf engine option is the 3.5-liter V6 EcoBoost. Yet I still hear stuff like– “will that fancy-pants tech really last?” Take this tour of a turbo F-150 with 205,268 miles on it and see for yourself.



Truck guys are some of the stubbornest enthusiasts on the road, myself included. We like V8s cause that’s what our daddies had and their daddies before them, okay? And they just sound so good.

When Ford introduced the EcoBoost-powered F-150 in 2011 it was met with a healthy heap of skepticism, mostly surrounding both long-term survivability and exhaust notes. Check any truck forum today and you’ll see that this persists in a decent-sized subset of vocal fans.


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Five years later Ford insists everybody loves the EcoBoost and it’s great and wonderful and the best. I have to say, I’ve been impressed with its performance myself and even though the 3.5 EcoBoost is completely redesigned for 2017, there were something like a million trucks made with essentially the same engine we’re seeing in this video.

And what an engine– over 200,000 on the clock and it’s not even leaking!

Our host in the here clip, who appears to be a mechanic regularly employed by this truck’s owner, says this 2011 F-150 is on its original engine, transmission, transfer case, axles and differential. None of which are seeping, he claims.

The only repairs he cites are basic: brake rotors, two spark plug changes, an ignition coil change, a few oxygen sensors and a battery.

The truck’s trip computer claims its made an average 20.2 mpg over its last 3,100 miles, which frankly, is also pretty impressive for a half-ton truck. Those miles don’t appear to be to the mall and back either! The rig apparently does full time duty as a construction worker’s daily driver. But despite a few battle scars and one seriously exhausted driver’s seat, the truck really looks solid. And is that road salt I see on the side?

So the question is– is this a special survivor or are these trucks just that good?

As the mechanic on camera points out, regular maintenance has undoubtedly been a huge factor in this truck’s successful life. It sounds like the owner of this machine has kept up with fluid changes that’s allowed this EcoBoost engine to run strongly under an aggressive duty cycle.

If you take anything away from this video, it should be “take care of your cars before they break” and they probably won’t. Get it? I think this clip is also a pretty solid Ford ad. I’d love to see the results of a dyno test next!

 

[Primalzer]

Unreliable piece of junk! EcoBoom is more like it