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Old Jun 6, 2025 | 05:55 PM
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Looks like it.
 
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Old Jun 6, 2025 | 05:56 PM
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The engine will look like this. Just took these photos from my truck. No such thing as an EcoBoost add on kit.







 
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Old Jun 6, 2025 | 06:01 PM
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marked in yellow the airlines and blue is the turbos?





 
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Old Jun 6, 2025 | 06:09 PM
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Originally Posted by bwhatch2
used car salesman/dealer, all the same thing......
is this an echoboost bumper?

That's the previous generation F150, 2014 down.
 
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Old Jun 6, 2025 | 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by bwhatch2
marked in yellow the airlines and blue is the turbos?

Yellow are the air intake tubes to the turbos, the turbos are at the end of those tubes, bolted to the exhaust manifolds. The top blue squiggle is the air filter box, the bottom squiggle is nothing related (ABS pump), the drivers side turbo is behind where the tube ends.

This pic may make it a little more clear.



 
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Old Jun 6, 2025 | 06:34 PM
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Point is, the no turbo V6 will not have any of that plumbing you highlighted. It will have one air tube going from the air filter box to the throttle body on top of the engine.
 
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Old Jun 6, 2025 | 06:37 PM
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THANK TO EVERYBODY FOR YOUR HELP!!! I will post back to this thread later and let you know how it turned out.
 
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Old Jun 30, 2025 | 09:12 AM
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Originally Posted by bwhatch2
THANK TO EVERYBODY FOR YOUR HELP!!! I will post back to this thread later and let you know how it turned out.
What did you find out?

I'm kinda curious now. My $$ is the sales person didn't know what they were talking about and it's a non-turbo 3.5.
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Old Jun 30, 2025 | 09:49 AM
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Originally Posted by adgjqetuo
What did you find out?

I'm kinda curious now. My $$ is the sales person didn't know what they were talking about and it's a non-turbo 3.5.
I ended up buying a different truck. but...the last message I got from the salesman was "sir, I know what a turbo charged engine looks like, you can come and look for yourself. the engine in this truck is turbo charged"
he seems pretty confident, so I guess we will probably never know.
 
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3.5L V6 is an ecoboost https://www.jdemmerford.com/research...ne-options.htm
the 3.3L is the base east per this Ford dealers page.

what did you end up getting?
 
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