[Shotimes] Re: New Ford shooting brake with SHO intake?

[Donald Mallinson]

Jim,

Odd as it sounds, the Miller cycle engine is for real, in Mazda's top 
car a few years ago.  Miller cycle does something with the valve timing 
to use a supercharger to help fill the cylinder more efficiently, and 
thus a lower compression ratio.  Here is one explanation:

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/question132.htm

Here is another:

http://www.mazda.com.au/articleZone.asp?articleZoneID=92

But this engine isn't supercharged from what I can see.

Yea, the curb weight is heavier than our 4WD Silverado pickup!

It is looking more and more like just a flight of fantasy and several 
poor choices on the part of C&D magazine.

Don Mallinson.



Jim Estelle wrote:

>Don,
>
>I felt the same way when I read the article.  I also even looked at the
>cover for a April 1st date like you.  The other item that made me think
>that this car is some sort of joke is the curb weight; 6,250 lbs!?  I
>guess it must have one of those new fangled hydroformed frames made out
>of depleted uranium!  And what the hell is a "Miller Cycle 3.0L V6"?  It
>lists the compression at 10:1 and then says Miller cycle equivalent of
>8:1?  They also describe the engine as Mazda derived.  If this is all
>true then it looks like Yamaha had some leftover manifolds sitting
>around the warehouse for the last 11 years.  Why didn't they offer them
>to us first?
>
>Jim
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Donald Mallinson [mailto:dmall@mwonline.net] 
>Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 9:26 AM
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>Subject: New Ford shooting brake with SHO intake?
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>Car & Driver magazine is wigging out since the firing of Brock Yates.  
>The June issue has the most odd writing style I have ever seen.  I was 
>reading it late last night on the throne and kept looking at the cover 
>to be sure I didn't have the April Fools edition.
>
>but it was the JUne edition.  Check out page 121 for the road test of 
>the Ford Futura Sprint GT/A wagon. 
>
>A four door (two on the drivers side with the rear being suicide style) 
>and only ONE on the right and a huge single rear door.  NO rear seat, 
>and a bench option (with console and floor shift manual) that is 
>supposed to sit three across.
>
>But most wierd is the car has a narrow angle V6 with a SHO intake!  The 
>intake is virtually identical to the SHO with GT/A where SHO would be.  
>Odd that none of the writers mention this.  The writing by John Phillips
>
>reads very odd.  In fact I had to wonder if someone had slipped me a 
>mickey in a drink at the cruise in earlier in the evening and I was 
>halucinating!     Read the article, you will see why I felt this way.  
>As usual they hated the car, but the writing was way off base.  Car 
>looks cool, but has that "car show" dream car feel about it, but they 
>write like it is going on sale in the US.  245 hp and they seem to be 
>surprised that a small engine would have more HP than torque...well 
>virtually every non-power adder small engine is more  HP than torque.
>
>WHAT is this car?  is it for real?  Is C& D pulling our legs, or have 
>they gone off the deep end without Brock to be the "deep" end for them?
>
>Don Mallinson
>
>
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