It was probably the biggest automotive surprise of the last calendar year. It’s probably the last big block gas V8 any company is going to build, and it’s probably going to be a pretty bad ass truck engine that racers will latch onto quickly. Yes, all of those things are being said in regard to the engine that the blue oval brand announced it would produce a few months ago. A lot of stuff has been speculated about the hows and why of the engine but this Popular Mechanics story about the new 7.3L Ford gas V8 is great.
To get the engineering perspective about why they did this, to get some of the insider information on what methods they are using to toughen the thing up and make it live, and to generally get some of the WTF?! questions answered is cool.
It takes a lot of guts for a company that for all intents and purposes eliminated cam in block engines about 20 years ago to decide to clean sheet one for use in trucks, so we give Ford lots of credit for this. We give the engineering team that had the balls to pitch it even more! When you read the story, pay attention to how they are brining some diesel engine technology into this 7.3L worker and why they are doing it.
No one can proclaim an engine that has never been seen or used in public a great success before it does anything. We’re not doing that. What we can proclaim is the fact that Ford took a common sense approach to this and the result seems to be one of the most common sense solutions to come out of Detroit in a long, long time.
Popular Mechanics: Ford Keeps It Old School With New 7.3L Gas Engine
Looks like an LS…….Ford finally did something right and copied GM….well except when they copied International/Navistar with the 6.7 they did good then too.
Rumor has it Chev copied the basic design of the FE for the LS…from 1958. Take it as you will…you won’t. Chevy guys are like talking to a wall.
LS copied from a of FE boat anchor? Give me a break! Is that a joke or what?
What part of an LS engine is anything like an FE?
So, are you going to make us calculate the cubic inches?
440 ci
Take a good look at the ls its more ford then chevy look at a 427 ford same 4 bolt mains cross bolts high riser heads big tall ports this is 63-64 not new just paint a ls ford blue and go
Ford didn’t invent cross bolted mains there smart guy.
And no mention of the HP and torque numbers?
None have been published yet and Ford has not released any.
Really not anything in the PM article that hasn’t been mentioned in previously published articles……
I expected to see a real fancy multi valve head when I first heard of this. Ford has had a way of making 2v heads that are absolute, no power making garbage for decades. I’m just preparing myself for dismal power numbers but I hope that isn’t the case.