You may have heard about the EcoBoost six-cylinder engine Ford has been torture-testing in its F-150 pickup trucks. It towed 11,300 pounds at full throttle for 24 hours, dragged logs through the forest and even competed in the Baja 1000 desert race. It’s an impressive list of accomplishments.
But if you’re like me, you want to look inside the engine to see how it’s really holding up. How do the cylinder walls look?
Do the rings still seal?
Are the valves, bearings and journals like new or are they worn to a nub?
Ford is giving motor heads a chance to find out, sort of.
No, you can’t take the engine home. But the car maker’s power train engineers will disassemble it in public during the North American International Auto Show in Detroit on Jan. 15 at 11 a.m. Ford says it subjected the turbocharged V6 engine to the equivalent of 160,000 miles and 10 years of rugged use to prove it can handle a work-truck’s duties.
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