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30 OTT 6

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  1. Is there enough Congolese children to mine the cobalt for all those batteries?
  2. Third shift at Windsor Annex Engine Plant announced for 6.8L V8 launch in January 2023.
  3. Seems to be a problem with Ford marketing. They also list the current 5.0L Coyote as a 302 CID, not the mathematically correct 307.
  4. Looks like a lot more complication and cost for a fuel economy bump no one will ever notice.
  5. Interestingly, the 7.3L crank still has two sprockets, the second one is for the oil pump.
  6. This answers the question of the 6.8L seeing action in the Mustang. With an iron block it will weight the virtually the same as the 7.3L, to which the 307 Coyote is a lightweight in comparison (by 135 lbs).
  7. Ford is embracing the base Mustang's "Secretary Car" heritage. On the plus side, the 2.3L EB is gaining a dual fuel system with port injection and DI... for those secretaries that appreciate clean intake valves.
  8. If fuel economy and emission standards are tightening up on the heavier truck classes an aluminum block Godzilla makes sense. From the Ford Performance website, an aluminum block 351 weights 118 lbs compared to 195 lbs iron block. Applying that comparison to a similar sized Godzilla block will add up to significant weight savings for the vehicle. An aluminum block Godzilla would need iron cylinder sleeves or a thicker cylinder wall with PTWA coating. This could account for a smaller displacement. A 3.6 mm smaller 103.6 mm bore with the same 101 mm stroke yields 6.8L.
  9. I just watched The Fast Lane Truck Ford Lighting tow test on Youtube. They got 89 miles towing a typical RV trailer and spent as much time charging the thing as on the road. Is this what to expect from a BEV Super Duty? Aside from the urban cowboys and Californians, how many contractors, farmers, etc. would put their money down on a 3/4 ton with this level of performance.
  10. Hopefully they put the chassis on a diet. That'd be worth more than a horsepower bump.
  11. From what I've read about small modular reactors (SMRs), they can be retrofitted into a current coal-fired power generating plant. The coal furnaces are replaced with an SMR to generate the steam used by the existing turbine and generator system.
  12. I think it was, with the added conversion of overhead cam to in-block cam. I also think that Coyote would never have happened if the 6.2L Boss (back when it was Hurricane in 2005) had performed better.
  13. Maybe the 6.8L is replacing the 6.2L in Super Duty and the 3.5L Ecoboost in the F150/Expedition? The 6.8L could double duty as the top engine in the F150 and base engine in F250.
  14. Phase out cars in favour of SUVs and then make the SUVs more like cars.
  15. Hopefully Jenny Craig is on the S650 design team.
  16. The standard foot steps molded into each side of the bumpers on the Chevy and GMC trucks was the last great innovation in pickup box access. Simple, effective, and not an eye sore.
  17. Some details came out on the new V8 going into the 2023 Corvette Z06. I didn't catch if this is based off the defunct Cadillac Blackwing V8 or another new engine. There's a bunch of drunken sailors working at GM product planning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q6p5vlAWEs
  18. Ford Management would love to build a cheaper engine and continue to charge that premium. I'm sure one of them has already calculated their bonus.
  19. The 3.5L Ecoboost is a strong candidate for replacement by a 6.8L V8. The 3.5L is powerful but with the two turbos, intercooler, and all associated piping, it has to be more costly to produce. All that extra equipment seems to kill any weight advantage of the V6. A 3.5L F-150 always seems to weight slightly more than a similarly configured 5.0L. Also, particulate emissions from GTDI engines seems to be the next environmental target.
  20. The LS aftermarket includes hundreds of thousands of them sitting in wrecker yards. The 6.8L and 7.3L Godzilla will be hard pressed to compete with that.
  21. This will be the primary goal of a 6.8L Godzilla, regardless of what Ford Marketing says.
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