Engine Component View
WARNING: This page is about a different car, the 2004 Ford RV Cutaway, 2004 Ford Econoline, 2004 Ford E450 Super Duty, and 2004 Ford Cutaway. However, it is still accessible from the selected car via links, so may be relevant.
The concept of modularity allows engine designs to share concepts and hardware. The following illustration represents the basic cross-sectional view of a modular V10 engine. The four modules are:
- Intake module
- Cylinder head module (RH)
- Cylinder head module (LH)
- Lower engine module
Due to the modular design, most out-of-vehicle repairs benefit in reduction of time and labor needed to repair the engine.
Bi-fuel vehicles differ from gasoline vehicles through the addition of hardened valves and valve seats.
The basic engine components consist of:
- Single overhead camshafts
- Two valves per cylinder
- Balance shaft
- Sequential multiport fuel injection (SFI)
- Aluminum cylinder heads
- Cast-iron, 90-degree V-cylinder block
- Individual ignition coils for each spark plug
- Two-piece intake manifold system
- Composite-material lower intake manifold
- Large-bore throttle body