J.P. Vettraino -
October 9, 2014
2015 F-150 will offer a new small V6 with tons of technology
Some of the biggest news in the 2015 Ford F-150 sits under its big, wide hood, and the source is rather small. Ford is taking advantage of the aluminum pickup’s weight reduction to downsize its engine line again.
The largest engine offered in the 2014 F-150 — a 6.2-liter V8 — disappears for 2015. The new F-150's base V6 shrinks from 3.7 to 3.5 liters. Lastly, or maybe first, there’s the clean-sheet, Dearborn-engineered 2.7-liter EcoBoost V6.
How small is that? The 2.7 EcoBoost is the smallest engine in 68 years of F-Series production, including trucks built with small diesels for off-shore sale. It’s the smallest engine in any full-size pickup built by the Detroit Three since World War II, including the 170-cid, slant-six Dodge D100 in the 1960s. It’s smaller than the V6s in the current Nissan Frontier or Chevy Colorado, and exactly the same size as the base four-cylinder in the compact Toyota Tacoma.
You get it. As big ol’ pickup engines go, the 2.7 EcoBoost is tiny, but it’s hardly weak. With direct fuel injection, 30 degrees of intake and exhaust cam phasing, 17-18 pounds of boost and maximum cylinder pressure of about 2,000 psi (compared to 2,600 psi in the typical diesel), the 2.7-liter EcoBoost generates 325 hp and 375 lb-ft of torque. It packs power densely in a small, light package, and it’s loaded with technologies we haven’t seen much in mainstream production engines.
http://autoweek.com/article/car-news/ford-27-liter-ecoboost-v6-deep-dive
October 9, 2014
2015 F-150 will offer a new small V6 with tons of technology
Some of the biggest news in the 2015 Ford F-150 sits under its big, wide hood, and the source is rather small. Ford is taking advantage of the aluminum pickup’s weight reduction to downsize its engine line again.
The largest engine offered in the 2014 F-150 — a 6.2-liter V8 — disappears for 2015. The new F-150's base V6 shrinks from 3.7 to 3.5 liters. Lastly, or maybe first, there’s the clean-sheet, Dearborn-engineered 2.7-liter EcoBoost V6.
How small is that? The 2.7 EcoBoost is the smallest engine in 68 years of F-Series production, including trucks built with small diesels for off-shore sale. It’s the smallest engine in any full-size pickup built by the Detroit Three since World War II, including the 170-cid, slant-six Dodge D100 in the 1960s. It’s smaller than the V6s in the current Nissan Frontier or Chevy Colorado, and exactly the same size as the base four-cylinder in the compact Toyota Tacoma.
You get it. As big ol’ pickup engines go, the 2.7 EcoBoost is tiny, but it’s hardly weak. With direct fuel injection, 30 degrees of intake and exhaust cam phasing, 17-18 pounds of boost and maximum cylinder pressure of about 2,000 psi (compared to 2,600 psi in the typical diesel), the 2.7-liter EcoBoost generates 325 hp and 375 lb-ft of torque. It packs power densely in a small, light package, and it’s loaded with technologies we haven’t seen much in mainstream production engines.
http://autoweek.com/article/car-news/ford-27-liter-ecoboost-v6-deep-dive