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Core plugs can also sometimes prevent freeze damage to the motor. During the early stages of the freezing of the engine coolant a freeze plug will sometimes burst or pop out, and thus allow the coolant to exit the engine, before it might expand within the engine during the freezing process and potentially crack the engine block.
The last Australian-built Ford, and the last Ford passenger vehicle to be fitted with a straight-six engine, rolled off the production line at the Broadmeadows Assembly Plant on 7 October 2016. It was a Kinetic Blue FG X Falcon XR6 sedan, equipped with the naturally-aspirated Barra 195 straight six engine. [44]
Some block heaters are designed to replace one of the engine's core plugs and therefore heat the engine via the coolant. [4] Alternative methods of warming an engine include: [5] Engine oil heater attached to the engine's oil pan with magnets. Engine oil heater inserted into the dipstick tube.
Ford developed a supercharged version of the 3.8 L Essex V6 that was used in two Ford MN12 platform cars beginning in the late 1980s. A belt driven Eaton M90 roots-type supercharger spinning at 2.6 times engine rpm, to a maximum of 15,000 rpm at the engine's 6000 rpm redline, provided up to 12 psi (0.83 bar) of boost. [ 7 ]
In sidevalve engines the head is a simple plate of metal containing the spark plugs and possibly heat dissipation fins. In more modern overhead valve and overhead camshaft engines, the head is a more complicated metal block that also contains the inlet and exhaust passages, and often coolant passages, Valvetrain components, and fuel injectors.
Head gasket (in dark gray with a red border) sitting on top of an inline-four engine block.When installed, the four large holes will align with the cylinders.
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Ford Motor Company used the Zetec name on a variety of inline four-cylinder automobile engines.It was coined to replace "Zeta" on a range of 1.6 L to 2.0 L multi-valve engines introduced in 1991 because Ford was threatened with legal action by Lancia who owned the Zeta trademark. [1]