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Zetec engine. Developed in the late 1980s by the Ford Motor Company, the Ford Zeta engine was a straight-4, double overhead cam internal combustion engine with which Ford had intended to replace the analogous Pinto and CVH models. Ford designed the Zeta to share some parts with other Ford engine developments at the time, including the smaller ...
A rocker ratio greater than one essentially increases the camshaft's lift. Current automotive design favors rocker arm ratios of about 1.5:1 to 1.8:1. [ citation needed ] However, in the past smaller positive ratios have been used, including a 1:1 (neutral ratio) in many engines prior to the 1950s, and ratios less than 1 (valve lift smaller ...
Ford Duratec engine. Ford Motor Company used the Zetec name on a variety of inline 4-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] The company used the name widely in ...
The Ford CVH engine is a straight-four automobile engine produced by the Ford Motor Company. The engine's name is an acronym for either Compound Valve-angle Hemispherical or Canted Valve Hemispherical, where "Hemispherical" describes the shape of the combustion chamber. [1][2] The CVH was introduced in 1980 in the third generation European ...
Ford EcoBoost engine. The Ford Sigma is a small straight-4 automobile engine introduced in 1995 by Ford Motor Company. Its first evolution was sold as the Zetec-S (not to be confused with the trim level), then Zetec-SE and finally, in later years, renamed Duratec. [3] The last upgrade of the engine is named Duratec Ti-VCT.
Ford Zetec engine. The Ford Kent is an internal combustion engine from Ford of Europe. Originally developed in 1959 for the Ford Anglia, it is an in-line four-cylinder overhead-valve –type pushrod engine with a cast-iron cylinder head and block. The Kent family can be divided into three basic sub-families; the original pre-Crossflow Kent, the ...
Ingenium AJ200 (for I4 Turbo) Volvo VEA (2.5t I5) Duratec is a brand name of the Ford Motor Company used for the company's range of gasoline -powered four-cylinder, five-cylinder and six-cylinder passenger car engines. The original 1993 Duratec V6 engine was designed by Ford and Porsche. [1] Ford introduced this engine in the Ford Mondeo.
The Cosworth EC is a Cosworth-built and Ford-financed 8-cylinder, 3.5-litre racing engine that was used exclusively by Benetton in the 1994 Formula 1 World Championship under the name Ford Zetec-R. Michael Schumacher won the driver's world championship with the EC this year. The reduced to 3.0-litre version Cosworth ECA, again called Zetec-R ...