the coyote 5.0 ci?

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It's a Modular motor and going to have a lot of potential.
Dave

Modular Motor

Short for "modular motor". A "modular" motor is one that shares many parts with other motors/engines of differing displacement and cylinders.

For example, Ford's 2.5L and 3.0L Duratec V6 engines are also "modular motors" (although the term "mod motor" is usually only used for the V8 engines) and share parts with the 4.6 and 5.4L V8 engines.

I'm not gonna disagree with you.

My auto prof told us that it was the structure of the engine, its different modules, or structural pieces.

 

[Mac]

I'm not gonna disagree with you.

My auto prof told us that it was the structure of the engine, its different modules, or structural pieces.

Boils down to about the same thing! Same parts (modules) being able to be used in different applications, if not the parts, then most of the common tooling.
Dave

 

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Yeah, but it also has the effect of the engine not being in it's full, operational shape (ie: bearing clearances and such being wrong) until the engine is fully bolted together and torqued down.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I'm pretty sure it is a modular.

Triton = Modular, but Modular doesn't mean Triton.

Modular just means that the engine clearances and such aren't all set and at their final position until the whole thing is together, heads, oil pan, intake, etc.

No.

I highly doubt the plastic intake on my 5.4 has dit squat to do with how the crankshaft sits in my block, or even how the heads are bolted on. Do you have to put the whole thing together and tear it all back apart to check the crank clearances? How much reinforcement does the aluminum heads give the cast iron block?

It is all in the tooling and has nothing to do with the construction of the engine.

Triton is just what they call the truck engines, nothing else goes by that name.

It's a Modular motor and going to have a lot of potential.
Dave

Modular Motor

Short for "modular motor". A "modular" motor is one that shares many parts with other motors/engines of differing displacement and cylinders.

For example, Ford's 2.5L and 3.0L Duratec V6 engines are also "modular motors" (although the term "mod motor" is usually only used for the V8 engines) and share parts with the 4.6 and 5.4L V8 engines.

What does a Romeo 2v 4.6 and a Windsor 2v 4.6 have in common? Not much, although techically the same engine they are very different.

The bore is the same between the 5.4 and 4.6 but the 5.4 has a different block and intake, the same old story as the OHV 5.0 and 5.8 aside from maybe the oil pan interchanging. Granted the V-10 is basically a 5.4 with two more holes, but then nobody calls a 351M/400 or GM 4.3/5.7 mod motors either.

Contrary to popular belief, the Modular engine did not get its name from its design or sharing of certain parts among the engine family. Instead, the name was derived from a manufacturing plant protocol, "Modular", where the plant and its tooling could be changed out in a matter of hours to manufacture different versions of the engine family.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Modular_engine

I know it is Wikipedia, but it is the same thing the tour guide told my brother on the Romeo plant tour.