|
Ford Taurus at AllExperts (3199 words) |
 | Ford workers came into the room, which was decorated in space-age decor, holding cups shaped like flying saucers, and the Taurus and Sable were sitting behind a curtain, their outlines silhouetting. |
| Ford was the first to produce and sell vehicles with such headlights in the U.S., when it introduced the Lincoln Mark VII in 1984. |
| Ford also gave the Taurus what they called a 'smarter appointed interior', which offered such luxuries as automatic climate control (an option for the LX and, later, SE; standard on SHO models) and a center console was available for people who didn't want the front bench seat. |
| 3-Valve Technology Improves Modular V-8 Efficiency, Performance (2840 words) |
| Ford engineers discovered they were able to get many of the benefits of a four-valve design – such as a central spark plug and symmetrical combustion chamber – using two intake valves and a single exhaust valve – with reduced weight and complexity compared with four-valve designs. |
| In Ford’s modular two-valve 5.4-liter V-8 engine, the intake valve opens slightly before the piston reaches the top of the cylinder and closes about 60 degrees after the piston reaches the bottom of the stroke on every cycle, no matter what the engine speed or load is. |
| Gretchen West, the Ford engineer who designed these new exhaust manifolds, says she tested both dual-core, pulse-separated exhaust runners and three-foot long fabricated header-style manifolds, and her final design delivers comparable horsepower to both, in a space, weight- and cost-saving design. |
Feeds |
Contact