F150 ecoboost towing
Just got back from our first trip with new truck/trailer combo. I am impressed. The truck was very comfortable to drive, got good gas mileage, felt comfortable towing, had little sway, and had power t...
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RobertRyan wrote:Turtle n Peeps wrote:
Thoughts?
When you're passing twice the amount of fuel and air of a normally aspirated engine, turbocharged engines will get hot very quickly.
When you have a very small engine and cram it full of air and fuel you won't have much of a duty cycle.
When pushed to the max in hot weather the EB will get hot and derate to save itself.
A premium fuel will give you a slight cushion from the derate. Octane boost will give you even more.
Totally agree. You making a basically small engine do something that a bigger gas engine or diesel do with less stress.Also the EB's fuel efficiency drops off under load, you have to drop it down in gears to save the engine
I can take my 6.6 liter LBZ Dmax and turn it up to 600 HP. Or I can just buy a 15 liter C15 with 600 HP.
This is a good example of what Ford is doing with the EcoBoost. They take a small engine and turn it up. Where as the big Cat can live all day at 600 HP the Dmax will not live very long at all at the 600 HP level.
The HUGE size of the C15 along with its cooling system can suck up and reject a lot of heat; the Dmax will melt down like a stick of butter in the Az sun at the 600 HP level.
Much like the example above the Ecoboost does not have a lot of duty cycle.
Bottom line is, it's easy to make HP with a turbocharger. It's extremely hard to deal with the heat it puts out. OP, you ran into both.
