The Essex plant is in Windsor Onterio, so that could cause some confusion (although I think all the Mustang 4.6's were Romeo's) The new "Coyote" 5.0 is built in the Essex plant though.
Not really much of an import at any rate, if somebody with a ruler laid out the border they would be well with the US, just across the river to the east of Detroit.
I had to dig this up, looks like it all depends on the year.
Dave of the Nord
There are a lot of questions regarding the differences between the Windsor and Romeo. Either engine will work well for a performance application. If you have the choice pick the Windsor. Rather than try and tell you the differences we will point you to a link that has a great in-depth analysis of these 2 engines. http://www.babcox.com/editorial/ar/eb40228.htm
Mustangs have come with both Romeo and Windsor engines. The 1996 thru 1998 Mustangs came with Romeo based engines. The 1999 thru 2000 Mustangs came with Windsor engines. Then just for fun, Ford went back to Romeo engines in the 2001 thru 2003 Mustangs. Be sure to check the engine no matter what year it is. It seems that Ford carried over some engines into the following model year.
I had to dig this up, looks like it all depends on the year.
Dave of the Nord
There are a lot of questions regarding the differences between the Windsor and Romeo. Either engine will work well for a performance application. If you have the choice pick the Windsor. Rather than try and tell you the differences we will point you to a link that has a great in-depth analysis of these 2 engines. http://www.babcox.com/editorial/ar/eb40228.htm
Mustangs have come with both Romeo and Windsor engines. The 1996 thru 1998 Mustangs came with Romeo based engines. The 1999 thru 2000 Mustangs came with Windsor engines. Then just for fun, Ford went back to Romeo engines in the 2001 thru 2003 Mustangs. Be sure to check the engine no matter what year it is. It seems that Ford carried over some engines into the following model year.
Kinda reminds me of the 75 Mustang "Mach 2" that I had,it had a 2.8 and the distributer went bad. It had one of three completely different distributors....I did finally find one at the Ford dealer cheaper than the junkyard. BTW that was around 1989 lol
Way asinine for sure. On my truck, I have to specify Windsor or Romeo (via VIN digit 6 or W) for certain parts. There were some F150's with the 4.6 that had issues with piston slap. I found that those were mostly the Romeo engines, and when Ford replaced them under warranty, they put the Windsor in it's place.
FWIW, all of the 5.4's were built at the Windsor plant. I don't know if any of you remember my thread about my heads saying 5.4 on them?
Only the 2 valve 5.4's were Windsors. The three valves were built in the Essex plant and the GT/Shelby/Lightning 4v's were built on the "niche" line at the Romeo plant.
Dunno where the Navigator 4v's crawled out of though, I suspect Romeo.
Only the 2 valve 5.4's were Windsors. The three valves were built in the Essex plant and the GT/Shelby/Lightning 4v's were built on the "niche" line at the Romeo plant.
Dunno where the Navigator 4v's crawled out of though, I suspect Romeo.
Inquiring minds want to know so I did a Google map direction for the two plants. Travel directions said to head East for "0" seconds! Think you might be right.
Dave of the Nord
Tremecs had TSB's for very similar sounding problems too.
Took turns driving my brother's '11 to Sturgis last September, and Minnesota two weeks ago. Hasn't missed a beat with just over 4k miles on it.
It did shift kind of stiff when it was cooler out, he researched it (he is a Ford tech) and put some other oil in it and that issue is gone.
Another thing is the people that actually know how to drive sticks are getting fewer and farther between and the people that actually think things out are even fewer.
I hadn't really heard much about this so I did a little watching on youtube. In my unofficial opinion from my youtube education I would blame the clutch before the trans. Kind of funny people will sit there with the car not moving and try out different gears, it grinds and they cuss the POS chinese made transmission.
If the clutch was working and the car isn't moving the trans should not be turning numnuts.
And then some guys marvel that the thing will not go into gear or the shifter feels limp. Yeah, you tried to force it and either screwed up the shifter linkage or bent a shift fork.
The poor syncros didn't have much of a chance either with the trans still under power either.
I also marvel how guys talk for a really long time with the car in gear idling and the clutch in.
Dad would have had a field day with these guys on "manual transmission driving 101"
It is 12:40AM here, I haven't found one where I can see how the driver treats his car that he wasn't doing something I don't approve of and I am going to quit looking for the night/morning. I wish there was a way to see how they treated the clutch, if they slipped them alot or shifted hard a lot or how they were treated.
My tractor is a good teacher at not forcing it. Try to and it will lock into both first and third as the shifter pops out of the slot into no-mans-land. A couple times of popping the snap ring out and realigning the forks with a screwdriver and a flashlight teaches the driver some manners. Gotta make square corners and be polite about it. Someday I need to get brave and tear it apart and build up the first gear fork... darn thing was worn out after 40 years and hasn't gotten any better in the last 20
Even with my freshly built T5, I have to do the old tricks. I double clutch downshifting into second. And I always put it in second before reverse, or it will grind.
The video on the bottom seems legit to me though. It shouldn't bang around in 2nd on deceleration like that.
It is one of those deals I kind of wish I had one that did it myself so I know how it was treated and I could tear it apart and see for myself what happened.
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