Oh ok. Was the 4.2L available then? Or maybe that came later.

 

249k, in 2013-14
Bought it from a friend who was the 2nd owner since around 100k.
It was clean, ran great, zero rust, dents, or paint damage, freezing cold ac...and $1800
I couldn't pass it up.
I put a leather, power, xlt 60/40 front seat in it too.
I still miss it, but didn't want to put big money into fixing it.

 

Oh ok lol. My parts truck is a 98 4.6 and it has the triton badges. So maybe a 97 only got triton badges with a 5.4! Yeah A SuperCab 4.2 with 4wd seems pretty rare in general. My 2003 is or was depending on how you look at it a SuperCab 4.2, but 2wd. Pretty common for an xl.

 

The 5.4 IS the Triton
Triton for 3, as in 3 valve engine.
The early 4.6 were 2 valve engines.

 

Actually, no. All of the 4.6 and 5.4 modular truck engines are Tritons. Period. 2V or 3V.

 

Yeah the 4.6L V8, 5.4L V8, and 6.8L V10 are all triton engines.

 

All engines were available for sale on the Ford release date of 1/96 according to my old warranty book. It doesn't go into prior released models, just specifies that as of the release date, all options were available for the 97 model.

Evan....this might surprise you. The 4.2 (3.8 in cars) was actually Ford taking a Buick 3.8 and reengineering it to Ford specs. The engine was taken apart and completely redone so as to not break the legal rules, and called it a Ford. Ford had no v6 before that would or could compete for power, so they reworked the Buick.

One source states that the Essex is instead a reverse engineeredBuick V6 engine.[2] Toward the end of the 1970s, Ford needed a new six-cylinder engine that was powerful and compact enough to be used in a mid-size car while meeting increasingly stricter emissions and fuel efficiency standards. Since Ford did not have an engine available that could be readily made to meet these requirements, one needed to be developed. The quickest and least expensive approach in accomplishing this was to copy an existing engine from a competitor, which ended up being the Buick V6 from General Motors. Ford's resulting V6 was very similar to that of the original Buick engine — down to an unusual external oil pump design that was common in Buick engines and without precedent in modern Fords — and had a nearly identical displacement. In fact, one of the only major differences between the two engines early on was Ford's use of aluminum heads as opposed to the cast-iron ones used in the original Buick design. However, in the years since the Essex V6's debut, design revisions from both Ford and GM to their respective V6 designs have differentiated their engines from each other to a point that any relationship between the two designs is not as obvious as it once was.

 

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Oh yes, forgot about the V10 being a Triton. I wish it would have been an option in the F150 7700's.

 

This is actually from my 98 Expedition I just sold, but my F150 has the same cover. If you look, it says 4.6L Triton.