Originally Posted by YoGeorge

Hi Lawrence. Welcome to FTE. I, as well as most readers of this forum, are well aware of this test, and being a Detroiter, it is over a year ago that I saw that exact engine being torn down at the Detroit Auto Show in January, 2011. The pieces did look pretty darn good.

My concern is that no amount of short term torture testing, no matter how brutal it seems, can duplicate the time and variety factor of thousands of engines (or any other car parts) out in the field, in actual use. Stuff happens in the real world, like spark plug blowouts in the 2V mod motors, spark plugs sticking in the 3V mod motors, leaking head or intake manifold gaskets, etc. All those engines were thoroughly tested as well.

And with the EcoBoost having the turbos layered on top of the other engine systems, we legitimately need, in my opinion, a number of years before the real world reliability of the EcoBoost can be really proved to me and other skeptics like me. I love new technology and hope the EcoBoost is a wild success, and as time goes on, it continues to look promising, but there has not been enough time yet, IMO. I am also concerned about the intake valve deposit problems that affect all direct injection engines to some degree over the long term. (Do a google search and you can see how bad the VW/Audi problems have been.)

Thanks for joining the forum; hope we see your posts in the future.

George