Ford's New Ecoboost 1.0 and Low Friction Technologies

**Luke Plaizier** · 10-04-2012, 07:31 PM

http://www.sae.org/mags/AEI/10714

Now, can we get all this new whizz-bang DiVCT, Direct Injection Turbocharged low-friction widgetry applied to the Coyote.

Scratch that. The Ecoboosthas got a cast iron block. Can we get this applied to the I6 then. Pretty please?

Why cast iron? Their specific design allowed them to build the block with weight 'competitive' with aluminium, but they gained significant advantages in terms of warm-up and friction-reduction.

And here we were saying the I6 is dead because it's cast iron. Instead, it looks like it's now the way of the future again! I know.

Lukeyson

**Luke Plaizier** · 10-04-2012, 07:39 PM

I noticed it is a long-stroke engine too.....uncanny the ongoing resemblances....

Lukeyson

Bossxr8 · 10-04-2012, 08:32 PM

Making the block out of alloy might have only saved 1 or 2 kg based on the size of the thing, as well as cost more.

I'd love to see how small the pistons are.

Franco Cozzo · 10-04-2012, 10:03 PM

Its going to be funny when these become standard in things like the entry level Fiesta, then a Victorian P plater gets fined $1100 and cops 3 points because mr Highway Patrol is having a bad day.

Driving a "high powered vehicle" because its petrol forced induction

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It will be blanket banned unless Ford cuts a deal with VicRoads, it will get through exemption, but thats up to the person doing the exemptions at VicRoads, considering I know a person who got knocked back on a VW TSI engine.

It will also be interesting to see what these things can do with cold air intake, intercooler, exhaust and a tune.

BigAL_250 · 11-04-2012, 09:45 AM

Anyone that's running a blanket rule on charged engines is going to have to change it to something else, because in the next 5 years everyone is going to be selling cars standard with these small displacement turbocharged engines.

Switch to power-to-weight or something, it just makes more sense.

TMC · 11-04-2012, 09:57 AM

A block as big as an A4 piece of paper, 120 degree crankshaft, 97kg all up, which means a couple of guys can pick the thing up. Imagine it in a beach buggy.

OzJavelin · 11-04-2012, 12:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TMC

A block as big as an A4 piece of paper, 120 degree crankshaft, 97kg all up, which means a couple of guys can pick the thing up. Imagine it in a beach buggy.

Nah .. the technology needs to go into motorbikes .. but would critically need alloy block to get the weight down.

Buntz · 12-04-2012, 05:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Luke Plaizier

http://www.sae.org/mags/AEI/10714

Now, can we get all this new whizz-bang DiVCT, Direct Injection Turbocharged low-friction widgetry applied to the Coyote.

Scratch that. The Ecoboosthas got a cast iron block. Can we get this applied to the I6 then. Pretty please?

Why cast iron? Their specific design allowed them to build the block with weight 'competitive' with aluminium, but they gained significant advantages in terms of warm-up and friction-reduction.

And here we were saying the I6 is dead because it's cast iron. Instead, it looks like it's now the way of the future again! I know.

Lukeyson

Ford could spend the money on the I6 to give it EcoBoost tech. Or they could just save time and money and cast the 3.5L EB V6 block in iron which would require very little development. In my ignorance, same casts... different metal?

I'd love to fantasise about the I6 sticking around and being used as a premium engine for ford globally. But one has to be realistic. That's not going to happen.