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FishOnOne
Nomad
May 04, 2016

Second Gen 3.5 EcoBoost and 10 Speed Transmission

Same horse power and torque is up to 450ft/lbs. Also a duel fuel system and a servo controlled waste gate. This engine appears to raise the bar on pulling performance and fuel economy could raise ...
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spoon059
Explorer II
May 11, 2016
Sport45 wrote:
Personally, I'd like to see Ford add a couple of cylinders to the 3.5 and make a 4.6 ecoboost.

I'm no mechanical engineer, but if they had a V8 ecoboost engine, it would be awesome to have a multi displacement system that allows the truck to operate as a turbo charged 4 cylinder truck for light driving. Seems a turbo charged V4 would be able to create enough power to get a 5000 lbs truck moving along at highway speeds and be able to do it more efficiently than the current V6.

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