Screwing around doing google searches for Ford corporate info and ran across the press kit for the 2006/2007 super chief with the supercharges tri fuel V10 and the HP levels interested me as they were from the old V10 version..then I saw the 2v V10 specs

Go here
http://media.ford.com/products/presskit_display.cfm?vehicle_id=1371&press_section _id=398&make_id=92

 

hmmm. a 2 valve engine with the torqshift 5 speed? i know vans still come with 2 valve, is the torqshift offered in them this year? matt

 

Pretty sure my brother-in-law had the option of ordering a 2005/2006 E350 w/2-valve V10 and TorqueShift.

 

BTW, what do you need two intake valves for when you have a blower?

But is the 3-valve exhaust valve bigger than the 2-valve?

 

Oh, wait, it runs w/no blower on gas ... darn it ... dash-mounted switch anyone?

 

Earlier this year some one had a thread on the Tri fuel and we all chatted for a few posts on the blower and all. I never looked past the article that I think Charlie posted. Just read the typical hype.

Trying to find any news about the future of the V10, I ran across this in the press release links. I was dumbfounded when I read quickly the different power levels for the three different fuel selections and immediately thought 2v V10 cuz of the 310 HP on gas... almost let that go by when my brain kicked in and said" wait the hell one minute!" this is a future truck power plant...why the hell are they backing up in technology and efficiency. Note how it is supposed to get 12-13 MPG.... Hell we get that now with the upgraded 3v V10.... things are sounding pretty screwy and maybe Ford is posturing them selves for some dramatic pollution control standards.... at the expense of pissing off a lot of us that NEED the current power levels.

I seriously doubt any attempt to simply "switch on" the electric clutch for the Blower when on pump gas will work... but that is all acedemic... I doubt the Blower/Hydrogen or E85 will be any where near the reliability or efficiency of the current gasoline 3v V10 design. Grrrrr

 

Just found this interesting other article on the tri fuel

http://www.pickuptruck.com/html/auto...ine/page1.html

Read the whole thing ...should get a few of the motor heads in here thinking out loud...hee hee

 

Does anyone see the day we'll need pure oxygen in an onboard tank so that NOx is a thing of the past?

(AIR has lots of nitrogen in it)

 

That'll be a lot of extra expense for no gain.

 

According to California, there's a gain - no more NOx emissions.

 

Have you ever noticed when one thing decreases another increases?

 

Liquid O2 can be like Nitrous ...

 

Why is the top half of the forum main page gone?

 

they moved general down to the bottom just above the chapter area . ken says for a short while to see how it works .

 

ahh...I hadn't gone down that far. Thanks.