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The Cologne V6 was designed to be compatible in installation with the Ford Taunus V4 engine, having the same transmission bolt pattern, the same engine mounts, and in many versions, a cylinder head featuring "siamesed" exhaust passages, which reduced the three exhaust outlets down to two on each side. The latter feature was great for ...
The company was also late with a V6 engine, introducing a compact British V6 in 1967 but waiting until the 1980s to move their products to rely on V6 engines. The company has relied on seven major V6 families ever since, the Cologne/Taunus V6, British Essex V6, Canadian Essex V6, Vulcan V6, Mondeo V6, Cyclone V6, and Nano V6.
The Essex V6 is a 90° V6 engine family built by the Ford Motor Company at the Essex Engine Plant in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. This engine is unrelated to Ford's British Essex V6 . Introduced in 1982, versions of the Essex V6 engine family were used in subcompact through to large cars, vans, minivans , and some pickup trucks .
The Mustang has a trunk capacity of 13.5 cubic feet (380 L) with its seats up. [58] The Mustang has the capacity to hold four passengers and uses a rear-wheel drive layout with its engine placed at the front. [59] [60] The vehicle uses a unibody chassis, [61] and is based upon the D2C platform, [62] which it shares with the previous generation ...
The standard 3.8 L V6 had a new split-port induction system, and was rated at 190 bhp (140 kW) 1999–2000, while the Mustang GT's 4.6 L V8 saw an increase in output to 260 bhp (190 kW) (1999–2004), due to a new head design and other enhancements.
The Ford Duratec V6, is an aluminum DOHC V6 engine with a 60° bank angle introduced in 1993 with the Ford Mondeo. The primary engineering came from Porsche , [ 1 ] who was developing this engine before selling the engineering to Ford, and Cosworth , who helped with cylinder head manufacturing. [ 2 ]
The cast iron Essex V6 is a heavy engine due to its sturdy design, weighing 170 kg (370 lb), 56 lb (25 kg) more than the aluminium alloy Rover V8, for example, [22] the Essex V6 also has a very heavy yet sturdy four-main bearing crossplane crankshaft with large 63.52 mm (2.501 in) main journals, [23] and a heavy flywheel in order to smooth out ...
Ford Motor Company has produced two different V6 piston engines which have been commonly referred to as Essex: Ford Essex V6 engine (UK), A 60° V6, 2.5, 3.0, or 3.1 L; Ford Essex V6 engine (Canadian), A 90° V6, 3.8-4.2 L