Ford V10 vs Pending V8
I understand Ford has developed a 7.3 liter (IIRC) V8 as a replacement for the 6.8 Liter V10 that has been around for some time. I've also been told the 2021 model Motorhomes come out in March, 2021....
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DrewE wrote:
I suspect you won't ever see a significant chassis front-end redesign on the E series platform. If Ford were to spend money to make large changes to the basic chassis, it would be far more sensible for them (from a corporate bean-counter point of view) to put the resources into an improvement or variant of the Transit chassis. The E series is rather a legacy product; it's still being built because a fair few people are buying them and the basic engineering has been long amoritized so it doesn't cost too much to keep making them. Updates are made to it mostly to get rid of things that are unique to it, hence changing the engine and transmission and dashboard to be more common with the F series.
If the new engine is narrower than the V10, you might find a little more foot space in the cab. I don't know offhand if it's narrower or not.
I do believe the engine is more narrow. No overhead cams, so perhaps more foot room. Certainly cheaper to produce. Myself, I'm going to employ "watchful waiting" (a medical term I'm applying to new engines) to see what weak points show up before I lay down good money. Let other people be the test mules.
