southportandford

Talking about motor... What is the smallest one that they could put in a truck? I wonder if there would be a smaller ecobost

2010FX4F150GILROY

Look for a turbo charged diesel inline 4 with 300 horsepower and 500 foot pounds of torque while getting 36 MPG.....

MHC-F150

Agreed!

Rumor has it they are looking at something like a 2.3L - 2.7L Ecoboost for the F150 after it's next complete redesign in 2015.

c-fox

So many people have had problems with the 4.6 and 5.4 I think they had to do some thing. These 2 motors have given a lot of people problems. The bad head design and poor fuel economy has got people looking at other manufacturers!

2000xl_toronto

I thought the 4.6 was a good motor - I think a lot of people had unrealistic expectations of it - thinking that just because it had 8 cylinders that the truck should be a racecar.

06screwlariat

Ford likes to keep memorable numbers...like the 5.0, and the 5.8 in the new Shelby. People recognize these numbers. Also the new 3.7 liter has 302 horse power. Coincidence?

c-fox

Its just a real small cubic inch motor. The coil packs are prone to go bad more than normal. Blowing the spark plugs out because they are only held in by 3 ALUMINUM threads! The tappets are known to seize up and burn the valves up. Timming chains and tensioner are bad about sticking and causing the timming chain to tick! I can go on but I wont. But 8-9 miles per gallon is truly sad! The bottom half of these motors are built very well. The heads and a real bad design!!!

Kit Sullivan

The "5.0" name has some historical noteriety from the 80-90s "Mustang GT" days, so Ford is obviously harkening back to that for nostalgia reasons. Can't blame them for that.
The "5.8"(Windsor) was never really marketed as any kind of serious performance motor by Ford, except for maybe in the original "Lightning" trucks. But that engine was really not too impressive, to say the least.

The older-style Windsors (302 and 351) engines had some fame, as did the famous "351 Cleveland" (Boss 351 and 351 HO) so Ford may see fit to use the "351" moniker on some iterations, as they have recently used the "302" name on the "Boss 302".

No matter what anyone thinks of the 4.6/5.4 engines (there were some good ones and some not-so-good ones), they were never really given much respect in performance circles as stock engines. (modified is another story). Durable, dependable and work-a-day...but never anything that ever generated any excitement to the masses.
My guess is that there is no real reason for Ford to make any extroidanary efforts to ressurect either of those call-outs for nostalgia reasons.

But...who knows?

mvsammut

Well stayed! :thumbs up:

80-86erafords

I would be really excited to take the new 6.2 liter for a test drive. It's been a long time since ford has had a true big v8 I have a 96 with the 460 and it doesn't get much more legendary than that