sundaydriver
02-06-03, 11:06 AM
Here's the link to the SpeedTV article:
http://www.speedtv.com/auto/?lvl=3a&cat=20&id=5064
Contrary to what some of the critics were saying, this engine is not just a spec engine. Ford did a lot of things to make this engine even better than last years. Kudos to FORD!
"Contrary to conventional wisdom in some quarters, the XFE engines are not just gussied-up XFs left over from 2002.
"Some people figured we'd just take our existing engines, dust them off and drop the peak RPMs," says Bruce Wood, Cosworth's Champ Car program director. "That's not quite true. The whole concept of the spec engine formula would fall apart if our engines failed regularly. So, it was critical to the success of the program that there be no engine failures."
http://www.speedtv.com/auto/?lvl=3a&cat=20&id=5064
Contrary to what some of the critics were saying, this engine is not just a spec engine. Ford did a lot of things to make this engine even better than last years. Kudos to FORD!
"Contrary to conventional wisdom in some quarters, the XFE engines are not just gussied-up XFs left over from 2002.
"Some people figured we'd just take our existing engines, dust them off and drop the peak RPMs," says Bruce Wood, Cosworth's Champ Car program director. "That's not quite true. The whole concept of the spec engine formula would fall apart if our engines failed regularly. So, it was critical to the success of the program that there be no engine failures."