Went to North American International Auto Show...

[Ohio XB]

My wife and I attended the North American International Auto Show on it's first day open to the public, today, Saturday. She really wanted to be there because Ford was disassembling the EcoBoost engine that everyone has been following in the torture test videos that Ford has been posting. She works in the plant where that engine is built. She's installed intake manifolds, throttle bodies, wiring harnesses, and currently performs the Dock Inspections; the last inspections before the engines go on the truck to be shipped to an assembly plant.

I will say she took "a few" pictures of the engine after it was disassembled and a couple of the process which was being projected on a large screen. This was done in front of a very excited crowd of people and everyone was very surprised by the results.

Before they started the disassembly my wife stepped up to one of the engineers who was present for the task. It turns out it was Ford V6 engines Program Manager Jim Mazuchowski. He was glad that she came to the show and was enthusiastic that she came particularly to see the disassembly of the engine. They talked about the process in the factory and what my wife did and was finding with the engines. Phil Fabien, an EcoBoost Engineer who you see in a couple of the videos, was also there to explain what they were looking for and what spec's they were going to check during the teardown.

Then it was time to take apart this engine which had run 150K miles on a dyno subjected to extremes not possible in the real world, pulled 55 tons of timber uphill, ran wide open for 24 hours at full turbo boost pulling an 11,300 pound trailer around a race track, drag raced other trucks uphill with a 9,000 pound trailer, and then ran the Baja 1000 and finished, in the dirt, sand, bumps and jumps.


My wife and I were surprised by what we saw.




I'll post a video of the pictures she took tomorrow as soon as I get done editing them.


Steve