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Old 10-15-2019, 08:40 PM   #15
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In my opinion, for whatever that's worth, all Ford is doing is, basically revisiting the 7.4L 460 that they walked away from a few years ago. THAT was a great engine! I had two of them. One was in our '79 F-350 that could pull a house off it's foundation and, was carbureted. The second one was in our '89 E-350 Class C 27' Ultra Motorhome and, it was fuel injected. It performed outstandingly too. Now, neither one of them ever passed any gas stations without stopping but, nun the less, they were great performers. We've had two truck and campers and 4 RVs, not one of them has ever done anything over 7 mpg.

I know that, that 460 was basically a stump puller and, if I recall, had great low end torque. Where as, the V-10, needs to pick up quite a bit of RPMs to get into the torque range. So, I'm just wondering if Ford's revisiting the 460 and refining it and, calling it a "new engine".
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It is a far cry from the old 385 series motors... being a "windsor built" engine.....



2 interesting points,, per fords press release

A dyno-certified version of the 7.3-liter V8 producing 350 horsepower at 3,900 rpm and 468 lb.-ft. of torque at 3,900 rpm will be standard on F-450 chassis cab, F-550, the new F-600, F-650 and F-750 Medium Duty trucks, and F-53 and F-59 stripped chassis models.

The upgraded E-Series will also feature the 7.3-liter V8. An optional calibration intended to help customers reduce their fuel consumption will also be offered; more information will be made available at a later date.


we shall see....
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It is a far cry from the old 385 series motors... being a "windsor built" engine.....



2 interesting points,, per fords press release

A dyno-certified version of the 7.3-liter V8 producing 350 horsepower at 3,900 rpm and 468 lb.-ft. of torque at 3,900 rpm will be standard on F-450 chassis cab, F-550, the new F-600, F-650 and F-750 Medium Duty trucks, and F-53 and F-59 stripped chassis models.

The upgraded E-Series will also feature the 7.3-liter V8. An optional calibration intended to help customers reduce their fuel consumption will also be offered; more information will be made available at a later date.


we shall see....
I had read something similar a few months back. This tells me that the F250/350/450 pickups will be the only ones that get the full power...all others will get a detuned version.
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Cooling requirements are different for each chassis configuration with the E series being the worst due to limited space, and frontal sq/ft of area, when Ford releases an engine on the first year it will always be lower hp/torque than let's say 2 or 3 years or more, look at the numbers for the 5.0 coyote and 6.7 diesel they go up every year since introduction.
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