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Ford Announces 2011 F-Series Super Duty Power and Pulling Specs ...

by Mike Levine

After holding our indication for five months, Ford has lastly released the sanctioned power ratings for its 2011 F-Series Wonderful Excise pickups. They are very awesome.

The all-new 2-valve SOHC 6.2-liter gasoline V-8 is rated at 385 horsepower (at 5,500 rpm) and 405 pounds-feet of torque (at 4,500 rpm), and the all-new 4-valve OHV 6.7-liter Power Hint V-8 turbodiesel is rated at 390 hp (at 2,800 rpm) and an Terra-shaking 735 pounds-feet (at 1,600 rpm) in the F-250, F-350 and F-450 pickups. The F-450 and up chassis cabs are rated at 300 hp and 660 pounds-feet.

Let's put these energetic numbers in angle.

For the gassers, the emeritus 2010 Wonderful Onus's yardstick 5.4-liter gas V-8 is rated at 300 hp and 365 pounds-feet, and the non-mandatory 6.8-liter V-10 is rated at 362 hp and 457 pounds-feet. So the new 6.2-liter V-8 has more horsepower than either of the old engines and fair misses splitting the quarrel in torque between the 5.4-liter and 6.8-liter, with two fewer cylinders than the whacking great 6.8-liter.

We can also correlate the 6.2-liter V-8 in the Wonderful Respect against its solicitation in the 2010 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor. The 6.2-liter V-8 in the Raptor is rated at a larger 411 hp and 434 pounds-feet.

The power numbers are larger in the discover-levy pickup for two reasons, according to Chris Brewer, Wonderful Fidelity major technician.

"The first defence is that when the trash goes over 8,500 pounds [disgusting instrument ballast rating], the SAE [horsepower and torque] rating organization changes," Brewer said. "We can't get the same horsepower and torque out of it [like we can in the F-150].”

The 6.2-liter V-8 in the Wonderful Deference also uses a strange camshaft from the clobber chance-obligation form, which, some may call back, is the same way Ford uses to flatter 500 hp in the FR Raptor XT interpretation of the 6.2-liter V-8.

Before we bear the old and new diesel power ratings, you may be wondering why there are two sets of power figures for the 6.7-liter diesel. Again, dirty agency avoirdupois rating plays a r.

The Environmental Shield Intervention requires divergent emissions testing procedures depending on the bulky instrument weight rating, which leads to unconventional power ratings. So-called "gloomy-task put a match to trucks" below 14,000 pounds GVWR are tested using a chassis dynamometer; standard-customs vehicles whose GVWR is 14,000 pounds or greater are tested using an machine dyno.

Comparing the oil burners, the old chassis-certified 6.4-liter Power Movement diesel V-8 is rated at 350 hp and 650 pounds-feet, so we're seeing a stout disregard in power by 40 horses and 85 pounds-feet from Ford's in-abode meant and built 6.7-liter V-8. The dyno-certified 6.4-liter is rated at 325 hp and 600 pounds-feet, or 25 hp more and 60 pounds-feet less than the 6.7-liter.

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Ford Holding the Line on 2011 Super Duty Diesel Engine Pricing ...

by Mike Levine

Ford is holding the being considered for on diesel motor pricing for the new 2011 F-Series Wonderful Fealty pickup, which features Ford's all-new 6.7-liter Power Hint V-8 oil burner. The invoice consequence starts at $6,503, according to In oestrus Wilson, swift and commercial wares forewoman for Riverside Autoplex of Poteau, a Ford shopkeeper in Oklahoma.

"That's the same invoice toll as the reported 6.4-liter [V-8]," Wilson said. "That also includes the assay of the new 6-scamper robot broadcast, because the six-abruptness accelerate is now part of the anchor fee of the sundries. $6,503 is the outlay to move from the new 6.2-liter V-8 to the new 6.7-liter."

The full retail worth of the 6.7-liter diesel is $7,835, according to Wilson.

Ford will no longer proffer a guide despatching for the Wonderful Onus after the 2010 ideal year. Wilson did not certain the if the Wonderful Chore's despicable cost out (the expenditure paid for the measure business and powertrain) would remainder the same or if it would gain.

Asked to animadversion, Ford spokeswoman Anne Marie Gattari provided PickupTrucks.com with the latter averral Tuesday afternoon.

"F-Series has been the maximum effort-selling odds trade-mark for 33 clear up years by delivering bearing-primary potential, toughness, and value," Gattari said. "That MO for good will on with the all-new 2011 Wonderful Loyalty and the all-new powertrain lineup. The odds, as well as the 6.7-liter Power Knock diesel locomotive, will offering tremendous value to our exigent customers. A more particularized pricing pronouncement will be made within the next few months."

The 6.7-liter V-8 is Ford's first in-for nothing intended and built diesel motor for the Wonderful Obligation after ending its 27-year relationship with Navistar. It's most famed aim hype is that the intake and weary spew through the roll heads is reversed when compared to a customary diesel motor, with the clean exiting unswervingly into the appliance’s turbo that sits in the motor's valley, mounted between V-trend lurch banks.

What also makes this pricing advice notable is that the Power Work has to first encounter sound new emissions limits for diesel engines that go into any way you look at it become operative for all diesel engines manufactured after Jan. 1. This has already caused evaluate spikes of more than $6,000 for big over-the-avenue trucks from manufacturers like Navistar and Hino. Even the new Ram Ponderous Burden pickups, which met 2010 emissions regulations as of the 2007 epitome year, have increased the fee of their 6.7-liter Cummins I-6 diesel by $500 for 2010.

Ford will use a new Diesel Drain Unformed system to scrub Nitrogen Oxide from the tire out rush, which will call for sporadic DEF refills and creates a new support notice for owners.

NOx is a paramount air pollutant that contributes to smog, asthma, and respiratory and crux diseases. It's caused by diesel’s rich combustion temperatures, which results from the great frictional warm up created by compressing air in the cylinders to the dot where it can ignite diesel incite without using a precipitate.

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