2011 Ford Ecoboost V6 engine in Baja 1000 race pics

To prove that its 3.5-litre Ecoboost is added than abundant agent in the F-150 barter and that it’s durable, Ford will accord the Ecoboost its antagonism admission at the acclaimed Baja 1000 arid chase this November. The accompanying turbo, absolute bang agent will be in banal action (said to accept been called about off the band from Cleveland Agent Plant), and the apparatus is this air-conditioned F-150 you see here.

“The agent activity into our chase barter for the Baja 1000 is the aforementioned agent activity into the 2011 Ford F-150 that barter can acquirement starting abutting year,” said arch architect Eric Kuehn. “No appropriate blocks or structural upgrades. We are absolutely assured that because of the austere testing the 3.5-litre EcoBoost barter engines underwent afore we started manufacturing, it will booty annihilation the arid can bowl out.”

Ford will attempt in full-size banal class, which includes competitors with absolute V8 engines. For safety, a abounding cycle cage is added to anniversary truck. Additionally accustomed for antagonism are modifications to the suspension, tyres and wheels.

Baja is allotment of a “torture analysis program” by Ford to argue barter that its 365 hp/570 Nm Ecoboost V6 is a chic arch engine. Visitors to Ford’s US website can see a poor agent constant bags of afar on the dynamometer and in the lab to ensure 150,000-mile backbone (240,000 km) for the best ambitious F-150 customer.

The armpit will additionally appearance a alternation of web-based documentaries hosted and anecdotal by Mike Rowe of the Discovery Channel alternation Dirty Jobs. The “jobs” accommodate towing a brace of Sprint Cup Ford Fusions for 24 hours about a 1.5-mile egg-shaped clue and carriage balk in Oregon.