Engine Component View: Notes
WARNING: This page is about a different car, the 2004 Ford Econoline. However, it is still accessible from the selected car via links, so may be relevant.
The concept of modularity allows engine designs to share communizations between concepts and engine hardware. The four modules are the:
- Intake module
- Cylinder head module (RH)
- Cylinder head module (LH)
- Lower engine module
The modular engine concept supports efficiencies during repairs by allowing the removal and installation of these modules. While not all in-vehicle repairs can take advantage of the modular concept, most out-of-vehicle repairs benefit in reduction of time and labor needed to repair the engine.
The basic engine components consist of:
- Single overhead camshafts.
- Two valves per cylinder.
- Sequential multiport fuel injection (SFI).
- Aluminum cylinder heads.
- Individual ignition coils for each spark plug.
- Cast iron, 90-degree V-cylinder block.
- On 4.6L engines, two-piece intake manifold system.
- Composite-material lower intake manifold with noise insulator.
- Large-bore throttle body.